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Speaker 1: There's a sandwich board brew haha in Nelson. Nelson are

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Speaker 1: looking at banning them. The disabled community say they block

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Speaker 1: foot paths. Retailers say the rakia who attracting punters. Of course,

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Speaker 1: it's the old debate Nelson. Mandick Smith is with us, Nick,

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Speaker 1: how are you very well? Thank you Mike good with

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Speaker 1: Where did this come from? Because this is not a

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Speaker 1: new debate in general, is it?

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Speaker 2: No, it's not. I've got a number of counselors that

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Speaker 2: felt very passionate about it, wanted to put the proposal

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Speaker 2: up for consultation to ban the sandwich boards. It's particularly

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Speaker 2: poorly timed in that retailer is not just a Nelson

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Speaker 2: through the countrary are having a particularly tough winter. Nelson

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Speaker 2: just booms in summer, but it is a hard drag

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Speaker 2: in winter, and so it's not been helpful to the

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Speaker 2: mood of our retail community.

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Speaker 1: So where do we go with us? What are you

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Speaker 1: doing well?

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Speaker 2: We had a hearings panel this week and the retailers

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Speaker 2: have come out pretty strongly opposed to the proposed ban.

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Speaker 2: That hearings panel will report back to council in September.

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Speaker 2: I'm certainly not one of those that will be supporting

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Speaker 2: the ban. There's a bit of an issue of the

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Speaker 2: current by law allows one sandwich board and the blind

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Speaker 2: and disabled community, you've got a fear right there is

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Speaker 2: the odd real tailor has two or three flag signs

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Speaker 2: and two three signs when they're only other sandwich boards

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Speaker 2: when they're only allowed one. Council needs to tidy up

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Speaker 2: a little bit of the enforcement. But this is just

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Speaker 2: a classic case of the sort of sledgehammer trying to

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Speaker 2: crack the nut. There's sort of this unhealthy culture that

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Speaker 2: worries me, not just a Nelson, but across New Zealand

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Speaker 2: of excessive risk adversity and doesn't matter whether it's the

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Speaker 2: one hundred road cones when ten would do the job,

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Speaker 2: or the thirty kilometer blanket urban speed limit, just councils

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Speaker 2: and regulators wanting to try and solve every problem, remove

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Speaker 2: any risk, and not really understanding the damage that does

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Speaker 2: to business in the economy at a time when actually

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Speaker 2: we need to wake up to these costs.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. Very well, said you in the prize

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Speaker 1: for the best interview of the morning. Then Nick nex

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Speaker 1: Smith Nelson, I'm not that I haven't enjoyed all the

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Speaker 1: other interviews, but what a brilliant way of putting it,

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Speaker 1: Nick Smith. The Nelson Mare almost as though he's wasted

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Speaker 1: and Nelson could be on the national scene again. For

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