A $5 million a year study has found that 40 per cent of the babies born in Auckland and the Waikato in the past year were "accidents".

Police and Eden Park officials have vowed to enforce liquor bans better following the "shambles" at the back-to-back rugby league tests.

Dropping the kids off in Ellerslie, Peter snapped a school bus giving the thumbs-up to Jim Beam.

Some sports clubs would "not survive" if a ban on alcohol-related sponsorship was introduced.

Almost three-quarters of drink driving deaths are caused by recidivist drink-drivers.

What happened last weekend: an element in the 44,000-strong crowd had too much to drink and acted like goats. This is not without precedent.

Only one man has been charged out of the hundreds responsible for last weekend's booze-fuelled mayhem at Eden Park.

The Government's liquor law bill passed its first reading yesterday amid strident criticism from Opposition MPs.

A senior Northland policeman is disgusted after a "blotto" 10-year-old boy was found so drunk his eyes were rolling back in his head.

Saturday's brawls, bottle-throwing and boorishness raise immediate problems for the newly upgraded Eden Park.