Confiscation

First published in Column 8, 27th February,1991

The Gulf War has been the cause of some odd happenings, tosay the least. One thing that struck my eye was a report regarding the checkingof parcels intended for our servicemen and women at the front.

The army, we were told, was setting up a strict securityoperation to check all gifts sent to New Zealanders serving in the Gulf.

It wasn’t so much the fact that the Army was being strictabout what was in the parcels. After all, they had every ...