Customs needs help —Mr Kirk
PA Wellington Mr John Kirk (Lab., Sydenham) has charged the ■Government with failing to give the Customs Department the assistance it needs to stop narcotics coming into New Zealand. He was commenting yesterday 7 on the Customs Department’s annual report which shows that only 74 grams of heroin were intercepted by the department in the year to March 31, compared with 1448 the year before and 2497 in 1975-76. Mr Kirk described the figures as reprehensible. He estimated the amount intercepted by the department as only 5 per cent of that needed to sustain New Zealand’s increasing population of heroin addicts. “Obviously the Customs Department is not receiving the assistance it requires to police the volume of narcotics coming into this country,” Mr Kirk said.
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