Minister to combat 'all drugs’
’i p A Auckland I The Minister of Police (Mr McCready) wants New Zealand to become more internationally involved in the eradication of drugs, and has called for considerably increased penalties for trafficking.
; Hitting out at all forms of (drug abuse and trading, he told the Auckland East Rotary Club that he would urge the Government to take stronger measures to combat drugs, and to give more money for the task.
“We must get into the drug problem at the international level,” he said. “It i has to be nipped in the bud.” The lack of co-ordination lon international extradition I was a serious problem. If I this could be ironed out. then New Zealand would make (real progress in reducing the | illicit trading in dings. “For our part, we must have la complete revision of penlalties across the board, so (that we can considerably inIcrease penalties for degrading crime.”
I Mr McCready, who visited (South-East Asia recently to 'study the drug problem, said (a drug peddler was “the ‘murderer of the worst kind.” I He wants all drugs done laway with, soft ar.d' hard.
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