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Steve Gillett: Kingslander Bar on the proposed new alcohol rules · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Good news for sports fans this morning. It's seeming to
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  Speaker 1: be easier to go to the pub for a big
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  Speaker 1: overseas match. Changes to the alcohol regulation laws mean ministers
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  Speaker 1: can grant one off special trading hours for businesses that
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  Speaker 1: stream major events. Steve Gillett is owner of the Kingsland,
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  Speaker 1: a pub in Auckland and is with me this morning. Steve,
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  Speaker 1: good morning mate, how.
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  Speaker 2: Are we good?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? Is this good news? Is this going to
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  Speaker 1: make a difference?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I think it's just positive for the hospitality industry.
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  Speaker 2: It's been pretty pretty tough out there at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's just an opportunity to get extra
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  Speaker 2: revenue streams, to increase your top your total sales at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day. So it gives a guys
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to open and let the community come in and
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  Speaker 2: watch these games and support the local rugby games for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a major events they're talking about multiple a
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  Speaker 1: year or is it just a very special occasion or
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  Speaker 1: do we just have to wait and see that. It's
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  Speaker 1: up to the minister's discretion.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose, I guess. I mean, coming up, we've got
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  Speaker 2: the NDV two of England Scotland Wales, that could be
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  Speaker 2: an option there four o'clock am games, and then we've
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  Speaker 2: got the Soccer World Cup next year, so definitely opportunities
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  Speaker 2: there here to open for those games.
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  Speaker 1: There's people who say, and some might call them walsers,
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  Speaker 1: but people who say, well, is you know, if someone's
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  Speaker 1: just lost a football match and they're wasted drunk and
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  Speaker 1: we're sending them out onto the street at nine am,
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  Speaker 1: is it a sensible thing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's the thing where they are licensed
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  Speaker 2: premises and we are regulated to keep eye. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: not intoxicated within the bar. So those guys can't be
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  Speaker 2: in those in the premises. They have to be restricted
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  Speaker 2: and not allowed in there. So you know, if everyone's
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  Speaker 2: keeping to those of rules, those people shouldn't be in
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  Speaker 2: those premises anyway. But you know we've done it before.
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  Speaker 2: We've done it for the soccer, for the Rugby World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: Cricket World Cup and done it quite well, not had
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  Speaker 2: those problems and nothing's really come back, and that us'
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  Speaker 2: the the residual.
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  Speaker 1: You can say, Steve. There's also some changes to supermarkets
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  Speaker 1: and bottle stores and stuff like that, which I know
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  Speaker 1: governments of all creeds have changed over the years. What
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  Speaker 1: is there much Do you notice the difference when they
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  Speaker 1: restrict in Auckland as they have the hours for supermarkets
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  Speaker 1: and bottle stores. Does it have much of an effect
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  Speaker 1: on the pub?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think people, you know, will
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  Speaker 2: just work with what's happening. You know, there's a certain
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  Speaker 2: how you're going to buy a whole, they'll go out
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  Speaker 2: and do that and pre buy it and do that
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  Speaker 2: and then we know when it comes to the bars,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just tell up the bars when they're open and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just as it is.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, appreciate your time. Steve Steve get At, owner
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  Speaker 1: of the Kingsland Pub in Auckland. For more from Early
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