N.Z. DRINKING HABITS
Moderator Denies Report (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 14. The Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly (the Rt. Rev. A. D. Horwell) tonight denied that he had said yesterday that the average New Zealander could not control his drinking and could not be trusted to discipline himself if liquor laws were relaxed. He was reported to have made this statement when attending a reception given in his honour by the Mayor of Auckland (Mr D. M. Robinson).
“What I did say was that there were those in the community who had neither the stability of character nor the willpower to discipline themselves should the liquor laws be relaxed,” Mr Horwell said tonight. He told about 100 ministers and elders at a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery tonight that the average New Zealander was “a decent law-abiding citizen.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29232, 16 June 1960, Page 18
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