Grant Christie asks whether alcohol reform is a matter of conscience or science.

Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.

Parents of King's College students have devised a plan to allow alcohol at their children's after-ball party - but the school says it is keeping right out of the matter.

A man has been formally charged after allegedly fighting his partner for car keys on a night of drinking before driving and killing a solo mother.

The student organisers of an after-ball where police raided a van-load of alcohol say they do not know what happened to the booze.

Parents of a student at Rangitoto College, which cancelled its school balls this year because of a boozy party after last year's, are organising two private balls.

After-ball committees from 15 schools in Auckland have cancelled plans to hold functions in which parents provide alcohol to teenagers.

An events firm embroiled in police crackdowns on after-balls says it doesn't supply alcohol to minors - it just works with parents committees.

NZers favour reducing the amount drivers can legally drink before getting behind the wheel, with 70 per cent supporting a limit of 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, a survey finds.

At least four after-ball parties have been axed as organisers run for cover after a police crackdown and concerns over teen drunkenness.

Parents of students at a top Catholic girls' school are organising an after-ball party with alcohol - despite police warnings.

Manukau's liquor licensing agency is drawing up a list of school ball dates, and will send inspectors to follow buses to after-ball parties.