‘Tragedy’ of drinking children
PA Wellington ; The problem of juvenile ■ alcoholics would remain ; until adults stopped supplying children with liquor, said the Minister of Social Wel- ■ fare (Mr Walker) on Saturi day. • “So-called friends, and > even parents, are supplying . children with liquor, and there are documented cases r of confirmed drinkers as . young as nine years of age,”
he said, m an address to the New Zealand Wine Resellers Conference. “The drunken adult is enough of a problem now. The drunken child is not just a problem, it is a dy“I am very much afraid that the problem of the juvenile alcoholic is with us, and it will stay with us, until the idiotic, irresponsible adults who are supplying children with liquor realise the harm they are doing,” said Mr Walker. Any proposal to make liquor easier to obtain would only invite trouble, and for this reason he was opposed to the selling of wine in supermarkets. Yachting.—The United States won the Onion Patch international yacht racing series when the American sloop Acadia was declared over-all winner of the biennial 635-mile Newport to Hamilton offshore race. The three American yachts totalled 193 points in the series to finish 22 points ahead of second-placed Britain.
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