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Speaker 1: Heller do for see Allen nineteen past five. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get to the text shortly first, though, let's deal

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Speaker 1: with what's been happening at the South Island pub. So

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Speaker 1: this pub has had to get rid of some of

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Speaker 1: its outdoor seating to avoid a twenty thousand dollar fine.

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Speaker 1: It's formerly the Black Ball Hilton. It's gone through the

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Speaker 1: latest liquor license renewal plenty of times. This time, all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, the seats outdoors are a problem. The owner,

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Speaker 1: Cynthia Robbins, is with us. Now, Hi, Cynthia, hy here

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Speaker 1: they have it going. I'm very well, thanks mate. You

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Speaker 1: sound incredibly cheaper for somebody's had to rip out the

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Speaker 1: seats outside.

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Speaker 2: I've done the crying over the weekend. I've moved on

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Speaker 2: from that now, but it was pretty upsetting for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet. Why is it all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: a problem when you've done this three or four times

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Speaker 1: and nobody's ever raised any issue.

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Speaker 2: I think it's that they're becoming much more stretched with

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Speaker 2: what's within the licensed area, and because our licensed area

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Speaker 2: ends at the verandah, because we've only got a license

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Speaker 2: to occupy the veranda space, that anything outside that if

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Speaker 2: you buy a drink on license, then you can't move

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Speaker 2: beyond to the licence area. And it's never ever been

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Speaker 2: a problem, so we didn't even think twice about it

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Speaker 2: when we got our license, just carried on business as usual.

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Speaker 2: And then one of the district licensing committee members went

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Speaker 2: past and went into council next day and said they're

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Speaker 2: not meeting the license and all of a sudden, council

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Speaker 2: got arched up and we got arced up, and we said, well,

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Speaker 2: until this is resolved, we just can't have the tables there.

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Speaker 2: And one of them is actually a very very historic table,

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Speaker 2: in keeping with the Black Ball Hilton being such an

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Speaker 2: iconic and historic pub, because that table was actually built

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Speaker 2: out of the bridge timbers that used to span the

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Speaker 2: Gray River, and when that bridge was lost, those bridge

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Speaker 2: timbers came up here and that's one of the tables.

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Speaker 1: So am I right in thinking that that table was

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Speaker 1: half half okay by the rules and then the other

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Speaker 1: half was outside the rules.

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Speaker 2: No, all of them completely, two tables complete the outside

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Speaker 2: and they have been, if you really want to split here,

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Speaker 2: as they have been for decades. Outside the license area.

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Speaker 1: Ever caused a problem, never.

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Speaker 2: Caused a problem. Never had an accident, never had anybody

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Speaker 2: hit by a vehicle or anything. Just everybody's just really

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Speaker 2: good and chill with them and it's great. So and

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Speaker 2: black Ball itself is the gateway to the Papara Track,

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Speaker 2: the tenth grade walk, And so now I feel like

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Speaker 2: the town doesn't look as inviting because those tables aren't

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Speaker 2: out there with the umbrellas up and looking more friendly

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Speaker 2: with people sitting there, you know, looking welcome.

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Speaker 1: Cynthia, what's happened? I mean, there was a time we're

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand we were have looked at it outside

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Speaker 1: the rules, but it's not hurting anyone in mind. Just

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Speaker 1: drive up. Why are we all of a sudden being

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Speaker 1: such little top.

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Speaker 2: I don't think all of a sudden. I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's all of a sudden. I think it's little by little,

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Speaker 2: chip by chip. This is being done over a long

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Speaker 2: period of time, and because people just let that little

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Speaker 2: bit side and that little bit side eventually a whole

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Speaker 2: lot slip and we haven't noticed it going. And so

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Speaker 2: I'm standing up for it because I don't believe it

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Speaker 2: should be like that fight.

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Speaker 1: It's Cynthia, We're on your side, thank you, Cynthia Robbins,

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Speaker 1: owner of formerly The black Ball Hilton. We're not talking.

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Speaker 1: What we are is. It's wet. Were little clipboard warrior nerds,

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Speaker 1: aren't we. That's what we've becoming, a little knacks anyway.

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Speaker 1: Don't need to go on about it. I think we

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Speaker 1: all know.

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