“…Parents of King’s College students want alcohol at their children’s after-ball party – but only if every Mum or Dad attends too.
A 15-member parent committee – which includes New Zealand’s richest man, Graeme Hart, and businessman Michael Stiassny – is trying to avoid a police crackdown on booze-fuelled after-ball parties.
Under the plan, hundreds of students under 18 would need to bring a parent to buy drinks for them from a licensed bar at the same venue as the ball.
The move comes three weeks after King’s boarder James Webster, 16, died after binge-drinking neat vodka and amid a police crackdown on the illegal serving of liquor at after-ball parties.
Fifteen Manukau parent committees have halted party plans after meeting the district’s liquor licensing agency.
Mr Stiassny said the King’s committee was “working within the law to see what alternatives there are to make it work”.
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