Drinking drivers
Sir, — Your second leader on June 21 comments on a need for change in New Zealand attitudes to alcohol, a need clearly illustrated by your correspondence columns last week. There was a spate of complaints about the Southland farmers’ protest and one comment on the excellent and disturbing feature on drunken driving. It seems as if it may be socially unacceptable to give a forceful and public reminder of the extent to which our prosperity depends upon the slaughter of animals, but quite tolerable to be drunk enough in charge of a car to endanger innocent human lives When drunkenness is no longer a sort of initiation rite, we may learn to make proper use of alcohol. — Yours, etc., MARGARET DOHERTY. June 21, 1978.
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