CHILDREN FOUND DRINKING BEER
PARTY IN PARK AT NEW PLYMOUTH (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 24. A party of girls and boys of primary school age drinking beer was discovered in Kawaroa Park, New Plymouth, recently by the park warden (Mr V. D. Gush). Reporting the incident to the annual meeting of the Kakaroa Park Foreshore Beautifying Society at New Plymouth last night, Mr Gush said that some of the girls were only partly dressed. He did not know any of the children, and had not been able to get their names. There were six girls and six boys, said Mr Gush, and they were behind the tennis courts drinking bottles of beer. Some of the girls were “only half-dressed.”
He had found and broken up the party about 4.15 p.m. The children must-have taken the beer from somewhere, possible from their parents, as none of them was old enough to buy it.
In reply to Mr Gush, who asked what powers the warden had, the society’s secretary (Mr R. G. Howell) said that the warden could only warn offenders and lay a complaint with the New Plymouth City Council.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27410, 24 July 1954, Page 9
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