Responsibility and age
Sir,—As an 18-year-old New Zealand citizen I am prohibited from entering licensed premises and I am considered too young to need the adult rate of unemployment benefit, although my basic living requirements are those of an adult. In spite of society’s obvious doubt as to my maturity, I am entrusted with a vote in the forthcoming General Election, a matter of serious consequence that re-
quires, presumably, at least as much judgment and common sense as is needed to conduct oneself appropriately at a public house or to remain financially solvent on the reduced rate of unemployment benefit.—Yours, etc., R. A. LLOYD. May 8, 1984.
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