Drinking Age
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 29. The Commissioner of Police (Mr C. L. Spencer) said today that he believed New Zealand was faced with the neccessity of lowering its drinking age to 18. “Too many teen-agers are getting liquor through different sources and taking it away to parks, beaches, houses, their cars and other places where they drink out of control,” he said. “Even if it means lowering the drinking age, it would be much preferable for them to drink lawfully where they are under control. ■ “I personally would not like to see the drinking age [lowered, but I think there is
a case of necessity that it should be lowered.”
Mr Spencer said too many young people were getting into trouble because of liquor. The police knew that teenagers obtained their alcohol very often through older people. “It comes in quantities too,” he said. Mr Spencer was commenting on an address given this week by an Auckland stipendiary magistrate, Mr J. H. Luxford, to the Auckland Justices of the Peace Association.
Mr Luxford hinted that he would like to see the drinking age lowered because of the challenge it imposed to New Zealand teen-agers.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31125, 30 July 1966, Page 3
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197Drinking Age Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31125, 30 July 1966, Page 3
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