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(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Mar. 28. Air New Zealand's policy regarding the carrying of epileptics was not to refuse them passage, but to insist on their being accompanied by a qualified assistant, a spokesman for the airline said today.
He was commenting on a report of the difficulty a 17-year-old epileptic experienced in coming from Australia to New Zealand to see his mother.
Salvation Army officers, who obtained an Air New Zealand booking for the boy, Malcolm Palmer, said that other airlines had refused the boy a passage to New Zealand.
The spokesman for Air New Zealand said that his airline had the most convenient policy for carrying epileptics. He said that another airline
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31330, 29 March 1967, Page 3
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