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Jeremy Stevens: Hospitality NZ Canterbury President on the impact of liquor licensing laws on the first round of Super Rugby in Christchurch · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Another liquor licensing rule. Would we call it dumb? Causing upset? Anyway?
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  Speaker 1: In christ Church for bar owners, the brand new Dukaha
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  Speaker 1: Stadium will host its first major sports match, the Super
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  Speaker 1: Rugby Round weekend of April twenty four. Problem the next
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  Speaker 1: day's ANZAC Day, so no alcohol allowed to be served
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  Speaker 1: past midnight. Jeremy Stevens, Hospitality in z Candaby Branch president
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  Speaker 1: joins me this morning morning, Jeremy, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Good, thank you. So this is not great for bar owners,
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  Speaker 1: is it? Because midnight stroke of midnight everyone has to
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  Speaker 1: go home.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's very unfortunate. Obviously opening up this stadium is
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  Speaker 2: a massive event for usen christ Yhich. It's been fourteen
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  Speaker 2: years in the waiting. It's a massive investment from the government,
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  Speaker 2: Council and taxpayers and having a Super Rugby round in
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  Speaker 2: christ which is amazing. We how more people hear than
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  Speaker 2: we've seen in a very long time. And as you
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned, yeah, therefor the night of the stadium, all
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  Speaker 2: the bars have to show at midnight because SAMSAC Day
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  Speaker 2: falls on Saturday this year.
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  Speaker 1: Do you iman that the district Licensing committee, I've had
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  Speaker 1: a look at that their hands are tired here, aren't they.
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  Speaker 1: You basically need a law change from Parliament.
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  Speaker 2: There are There's something we've been working on behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes for a few months now with council counselors and
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  Speaker 2: the mayor who are all in support of trying to
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  Speaker 2: make this work so then you can trade as usual.
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  Speaker 2: The issue we have it keeps falling back on, is
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  Speaker 2: it is legislation. The hands are tied. We have tried
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  Speaker 2: to look at could we do a blanket city wide
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  Speaker 2: blanket special license to get across the line, but appears
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  Speaker 2: that's not an option under the current law.
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  Speaker 1: So your best hope is Karen mcinnulty's bill, isn't it
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  Speaker 1: because there's two members that this is his private member's
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  Speaker 1: bill two members days before then that hopefully it could
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  Speaker 1: pass in But I mean, fingers.
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  Speaker 2: Crossed, it's yeah, I think that's very unlucky passing time.
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  Speaker 2: But having that bill in place and getting to this
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  Speaker 2: stage does prove that this law is probably not suitable
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  Speaker 2: for purpose anymore. It is quite chaic. It affects us
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  Speaker 2: day not so much, but the bigger, biggest effect is
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  Speaker 2: Easter having that Friday and Sunday. But bars have to
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  Speaker 2: close at midnight on Thursday. You can't trade Friday unless
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  Speaker 2: it's for the purpose of dining. Same on Sunday. See
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  Speaker 2: bars have to shut up midnight on Saturday and the
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  Speaker 2: public holiday and Monday means it's a very expensive weekend
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  Speaker 2: to run hospitality time in a half every two days
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  Speaker 2: and we are staff that are eager to work those days,
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  Speaker 2: not forcing them to, but it's a massive effect on
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  Speaker 2: our trade, a massi effect on tourism.
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  Speaker 1: Plus you got the lunch, you got a feed every
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  Speaker 1: one to him and you, Jeremy, appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Stevens Hospitality in did Canterbury.
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