Lead level criticised
PA Auckland The Ministry of Energy’s attitude to lead-free petrol was criticised yesterday by Mr Des Wilson, the chairman of Friends of the Earth in Britain. He said on his arrival in Auckland, “How can we reduce the level of the country’s intelligence? Let us spray brain-damaging lead everywhere. How do we do that? Put it in petrol and spray it out car exhausts.” Mr Wilson, who is 43, said that an oil company-owned firm which made lead additives had twice won the Queers Award for “exporting poisons to poison children throughout the world.”
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Press, 26 July 1984, Page 6
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