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The Clarion Tour Labours on in the Lower North Island

The 2011 New Zealand Young Labour Clarion Tour has reached New Plymouth.

They began working their way down the Upper North Island from Orewa three days ago.

Young Labour Vice President Ella Hardy says ‘the tour has been stopping at main centres to lend a hand to community based groups and to put the principles of social justice and community service into action’

‘In Hamilton on Wednesday, Young Labour helped out at the Western community centre with fence painting, notice boards and cleaning graffiti off their building.’

‘On Friday the Clarion tour will be in Whanganui with Hamish McDoull, the local Labour Party candidate. We will be clearing bush at Bushy Park in the morning from 9am and in the afternoon we will be painting with Project Jericho after 1:30pm.’

Project Jerico serves the community by supplying people with emergency housing.

‘The next day in Levin we will be hosted by Darren Hughes and are helping out with the A&P show on Saturday, before heading to Wellington on Saturday to help with the restoration of native bush in Ohariu in Ngaio’

The Clarion tour is named after the famed Clarion Cycling Club, which consisted of a group of dedicated British political activists who rode around the English country side in the 1890s talking about their vision for a better and fairer society

The group is made up of nine young people at present, and is the second time Young Labour has done their Clarion Tour. The first was in 2004.

Young Labour is posting on clariontour.co.nz with daily updates of the tour.

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