Visitor expands waist, prescription

Press, 6 February 1986, Page 4

Visitor expands waist, prescription

PA Auckland New Zealand cooking has proved too much for Theresa Anne Westlake, aged 29, who is visiting from the United States. She put on 7kg since her arrival a month ago, and her clothes no longer fit

Her weight gain depressed her so much that she altered her doctor’s prescription to obtain double the number of weight-control pills she was entitled to, the District Court in Auckland has been heard. Westlake admitted a charge of fraud when she appeared before Judge Taylor. Sergeant Phillip Wirth said Westlake, who was staying at the Auckland Youth Hostel, obtained

the prescription for 30 pills from a Queen Street doctor on Monday. After altering the prescription to read “60,” she took it to an urgent pharmacy in central Auckland, but the police were called. Her counsel, Mr Jim Boyack, said Westlake was depressed about her expanding waist-line, and believed twice as many pills would work twice as fast “The weight gain is such that she cannot fit into her clothes,” said Mr Boyack. The Judge discharged her without conviction. “You don’t look any fatter than I am,” he told her. “Go back to America and tell them how kind we are.”