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Lucy Waterreus: Clubs NZ CEO on the Government widening alcohol restrictions for local clubs · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: The government is going to make it easier for community
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  Speaker 2: clubs to serve Booze at President at present, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sports clubs, working men's clubs, aresays, sell liquor through
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  Speaker 2: a club license, which is a lot more restrictive than
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  Speaker 2: the standard on license. Now Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee
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  Speaker 2: says she's going to change that. She's going to allow
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  Speaker 2: the clubs to apply for a non license. Lucy Waters
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  Speaker 2: is chief executive of Clubs n Z and with us Now, Hi, Lucy, hello,
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  Speaker 2: how are you?
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  Speaker 1: And well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? What's wrong with the current license?
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  Speaker 3: Their current license for a club license? It only allows
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  Speaker 3: clubs to sell or supply alcohol to their members, guests
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  Speaker 3: of members or affiliated members, so members from a club
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  Speaker 3: where they've got a reciprocal arrangement in place. And what
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  Speaker 3: we find is that most people just don't realize that
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  Speaker 3: these restrictions exists. And he might have someone that decides
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  Speaker 3: to pop into their local club, support a community event,
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  Speaker 3: see what it's all about, only to discover that they
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  Speaker 3: actually can't be served because they're not a member.
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  Speaker 2: How long have these rules been in place?
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  Speaker 3: Forever but well before my time?
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  Speaker 2: I have never been a member of an RSA, and
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  Speaker 2: yet I've had a number of drinks and number of RSAs.
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  Speaker 2: So how's that worked?
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  Speaker 3: That is a good question, because under the settings they
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  Speaker 3: should only be serving alcohol to the members, guests and members.
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  Speaker 2: Well, is it possible that I have come in as
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  Speaker 2: a guest of a member?
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  Speaker 3: Very very possible. So if you've ever gone into a
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  Speaker 3: club and you've been with someone else and you've been
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  Speaker 3: signed in, then that that would be That would be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I see Now, why is it that clubs have
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  Speaker 2: had to have these licenses rather than on licenses?
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  Speaker 3: They are prevented under the current Sale and Supply of
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  Speaker 3: alcohol from holding.
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  Speaker 2: An online Why why? Lucy? That is a good question.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't life in this country full of very good questions
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  Speaker 2: about the stupid rules that we have?
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  Speaker 3: It absolutely is, So that's one of the questions we've
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  Speaker 3: been asking.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so once this rule changes, does that mean that
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  Speaker 2: you will be able to go into, for example, the
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  Speaker 2: Fishing Club in Tyrua and have a drink if you're
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  Speaker 2: not a member or not a guest of a member.
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  Speaker 3: If they choose to. So if this all goes through,
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  Speaker 3: the clubs will have a choice over whether they retain
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  Speaker 3: their club license or whether they move to an nonlicense.
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  Speaker 3: So if they move to an unlicense, then they'll be
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  Speaker 3: able to open the doors and in the public will
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  Speaker 3: be able to begin enjoying the club.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we might actually decide at the Fishing Club
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  Speaker 2: in Tyrue that we don't want everybody coming in so
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  Speaker 2: much get the rules. But does Lucy, is this potentially
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  Speaker 2: part of the problem with Ari says and why they're dying.
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  Speaker 3: We do think that, and this is an issue that
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  Speaker 3: we've raised, is that that quite often if someone's new
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  Speaker 3: to an RSA, they're wanting to come in and experience it,
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  Speaker 3: they come into this list of rules that they need
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  Speaker 3: to comply with. So if we can start removing some
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  Speaker 3: of those barriers open the doors up, then we feel
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  Speaker 3: that the risas and our other clubs will be able
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  Speaker 3: to look at their options and start modernizing and becoming
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  Speaker 3: community facilities.
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  Speaker 2: He is hoping, Lucy, thank you very much, appreciate appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: That's Lucy Water. It's Club's New Zealand chief executive.
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