Lower drinking age
Sir, —Parliament’s 1976 decision not to lower the drinking age to 16 (“The Press,” June 6) was surely justified by the fact that the lower the allowable age, the younger children start drinking. Even now it is not uncommon to find 15 and 16-year-old children with a drinking problem. The lowering of the drinking age will inevitably bring about a lowering of New Zealand’s already declining social standards.—Yours, etc., JOAN ARMSTRONG. June 6„ 1978. j
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Press, 9 June 1978, Page 12
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