DRINKING DRIVER
“Sacrosanct In N.Z.”
“The Press” Special Service
WELLINGTON, Nov. 29.
The drinking driver had become almost sacrosanct in New Zealand, a Lower Hutt city councillor told the council. The chairman of the traffic committee (Cr. W. G. Bugden), said it was time people stopped considering the drinking driver, and thought of the people the drinking driver was hurting. Every time proposals were put forward to deal with the drinking driver, there was an outcry and calls to protect the freedom of the individual.
It was reaching the stage where it was impossible to suggest positive steps to deal with such offenders without receiving criticism from all quarters.
“I’m beginning to think the drinking driver is sacrosanct in this country,” Cr. Bugden said.
There were no statistics available in New Zealand to indicate what proportion of accidents on the roads were attributable to liquor.
Mr Olaf Ruhen, a former Dunedin journalist, now a well-known author, has been awarded a one-year fellowship of A4OOO dollars (LN.Z.1600), by the Australian Commonwealth Literary Fund. Mr Ruhen will write a novel.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31230, 30 November 1966, Page 1
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178DRINKING DRIVER Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31230, 30 November 1966, Page 1
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