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Speaker 1: Napier City Council has rejected a proposal to force bars

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Speaker 1: to close an hour earlier. They were going to close

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Speaker 1: all the bars and at two am, but they've decided

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Speaker 1: now they're allowed to stay open until three am. At

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Speaker 1: a meeting the week this week, the council decided that

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Speaker 1: was what they were going to stick with. Richard McGrath

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Speaker 1: is a naper City councilor and with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, hey, Richard, there's they're going.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. Why did you go for

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Speaker 1: three am?

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Speaker 2: It's the status quo that we that we currently have

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Speaker 2: and there was nothing really presented to me and I

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Speaker 2: guess the other counselors to to change it.

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Speaker 1: What about what about kids getting too boozed and causing trouble?

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Speaker 2: Well, the evident, we certainly had evidence put in front

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Speaker 2: of us from police and health, but none of it

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Speaker 2: was to do with age, so it's hard to tell

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Speaker 2: if it was those young people causing the problem or not.

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Speaker 1: Oh what did the health and the police say?

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Speaker 2: Well, it was they presented stats on times and days

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Speaker 2: in harm and incidents. But the stats showed that in

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Speaker 2: one one of our areas that I think has two

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Speaker 2: licenses or alcohol licenses. There was almost as much harm

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Speaker 2: between ten and four in the morning as there was

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Speaker 2: an our Harari suburb where our one nightclub is that

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Speaker 2: has up just up to thirty licenses I believe in

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Speaker 2: the area. So there was no evidence. Was it the

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Speaker 2: clubs or the pubs causing the problem or the off

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Speaker 2: licenses or the home parties or that sort of thing

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Speaker 2: in my view.

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Speaker 1: So which is the pub? There's just this one pub

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Speaker 1: that's open to all three which is that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called Rocksoff. That's our one nightclub that we've

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Speaker 2: got a nature that currently opens till three and they

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Speaker 2: do a great job.

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Speaker 1: So at three am is a lot of dancing going on.

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Speaker 2: I assume. So I've asked my kids and that's what

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Speaker 2: they tell me happens there.

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Speaker 1: They so they go dancing.

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Speaker 2: No they don't, I'm sure, but I could be proven wrong.

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Speaker 2: They're both boys energetic, but not that energy.

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Speaker 1: So I saw you quoted as saying it's better for

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Speaker 1: the kids, but essentially better for the kids to be

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Speaker 1: in pubs than to be sitting at home playing PlayStation.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you mean?

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Speaker 2: Oh very much. So you've got to learn about life

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Speaker 2: and there's more to it. Than looking at a screen

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Speaker 2: in front of you. You've got to get out and

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Speaker 2: talk to people, meet people face to face, do that

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Speaker 2: sort of thing. And now if you've got a choice

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Speaker 2: of having your kid doing it in a suburb and

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Speaker 2: an uncontrolled party, or in a place I think the

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Speaker 2: owner city had one hundred and something cameras around the

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Speaker 2: different bars. He's got their force security staff, a sign

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Speaker 2: and patron. I can't remember what it was called, but

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Speaker 2: you have to sign in so they know who you are.

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Speaker 2: And if you've caused trouble in the past, all very controlled?

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Speaker 1: Are you like me, Richard? I would much Look, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want my kids to go

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Speaker 1: out and get absolutely off their heads and hurt themselves.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like we're getting so worried about this

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Speaker 1: stuff now that we're denying kids the ability to have

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Speaker 1: the experiences that we had, and we're almost weirdly like

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Speaker 1: pushing them into their bedrooms to sit on sit on

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Speaker 1: the internet all night. And I don't want that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and at the end of the day, good people

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Speaker 2: should still be allowed to, you know, live live life. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know what, everyone that's out is causing trouble. I

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Speaker 2: mean right. I think this place from what he presented

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Speaker 2: to us one night, from all the people who had

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Speaker 2: scanned in, there were six hundred people fronted and they're

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Speaker 2: not all causing trouble, so why should they all be

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Speaker 2: told to go home? And you know, miss the world.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, Richard, thanks very much. I wish

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Speaker 1: that the count we had more of you on on

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Speaker 1: every single council in this country, Richard mcgran napi a

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Speaker 1: city councilor if every council had in fact, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I wonder how busy Richard is, because maybe we can

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Speaker 1: ask him if he could just join the coppers, the

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Speaker 1: alcohol team at the Coppers, because then they would stop

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Speaker 1: wasting there trying to shut down, trying to shut down

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Speaker 1: all the bars.

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