Advertising of liquor
Sir,—Recently Mr Keith Hancox, of the Sports Foundation, appeared before Parliament’s Statutes Revision Committee to oppose a private member’s bill aimed to prohibit liquor advertising on television. A year or so ago Dr Norman Walker, of the Mahu Kennedy Clinic in Christchurch, spoke about “70 human vegetables” at the clinic. He; said they would require institutional care for the rest of their lives. Their brains had been destroyed by alcohol. In his submission to the committee, Mr Hancox said that the bill’s passage would seriously affect the prospects of New Zealand athletes in the Olympic Games. I do not pretend to understand his reasoning, but let us assume that his statement is true. Will Mr Hancox, as the successful athletes stand on the rostrum with their medals round their necks, compare the brevity of their moment of glory with the mindless aimless years that the human vegetables will spend in the Mahu Kennedy Clinic?
— Yours, etc., CLIFF TURNER, Secretary, Group Opposed to Advertising of Liquor. September 26, 1983.
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