INTEREST IN POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 118, 20 April 1931, Page 6

INTEREST IN POLITICS.

YOUNG PEOPLE OF BRITAIN. WELLINGTON, April 20. “Young people in England are showing keen interest in political questions,” said Sir James Parr, formerly High Commissioner for New Zealand, on his return from the Old Country yesterday. “Everywhere they are being organised, and in the movement about London for Empire trade reform, there are thousands of young men and young women in some 20 branches, going to lectures, and being trained, many of them, for public speaking.

“One of my. pleasantest jobs was to talk to these young people once a week about Dominion matters, about which they were very keen to know, and about tariff reform. The brightest of them were trained for public speaking. Vans with loud speakers are employed at elections in England, and they go from street corner to street corner with young speakers principally employed in the work, ihey were excellent. AVhen I think of tho vigour and vim and knowledge they showed, I do not despair of ‘Old England.’ TlreyTl save us, these young people. “Party politics are regarded as discredited, ' Sir James continued“Thei thinking public realises that we are living in an age not of party politics but of economies. I have been privileged in the past vear to see great changes in the public point c T"'- ■ ™* lo English public is tired of thb impotence of Parliament to nnd a cure for their industrial ills.”