11:30 AM
Napier police will be speaking with the principals of several Hawke's Bay high schools in the wake of widespread drunkenness among teenagers at yesterday's one-day cricket international.
Police were becoming frustrated dealing with a large number of students who were given the afternoon off to go to the cricket but showed little interest in it, said Senior Sergeant Neville Haggart, of Napier police.
"They are more interested in walking around and around, to the annoyance of spectators," he said, adding that an increasing number attended for the sole purpose of getting drunk.
Mr Haggart said the five teenagers arrested and 12 others ejected from the ground for breaching the peace and other drinking-related offences, were all aged between 14 and 17. They were all students.
A 14-year-old boy was so intoxicated he had to be placed in the care of St John Ambulance personnel until his parents arrived to collect him. A 15-year-old, also grossly intoxicated, soiled a police van.
- HAWKE'S BAY TODAY
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