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Speaker 1: All right to next Smith's trouble with a bottle of wine.

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Speaker 1: This was at the neid of Vineyard concert. The Council

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Speaker 1: of the Police, the Public Health, along with the district

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Speaker 1: Licensing committee only allowed wine to be served in plastic cups.

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Speaker 1: It's all to do with special events licenses apparently. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: the Nelson man Nick Smith is with us, Nick morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, morning to you night.

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Speaker 1: So who is behind this? Who where does the buck

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Speaker 1: stop with the rules and regulations?

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Speaker 2: Well, this was for a special license. So Nudiff Winery,

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Speaker 2: you can go there any day of the week, buy

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Speaker 2: a bottle of wine to both take away and have

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Speaker 2: a picnic at the gorgeous place in the upper moucery.

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Speaker 2: But this is an annual picnic concert. Fifteen hundred odd

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Speaker 2: people go along on this event. We had stellar we

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Speaker 2: had the mockers, we had the dudes, people out with

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Speaker 2: their blankets, and for those they need a special license,

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Speaker 2: and the licensing authority, which is a mix of police

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Speaker 2: and health and counsel, insisted that they not be allowed

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Speaker 2: on those occasions, not to be allowed to sell a

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Speaker 2: bottle of wine. I've gone to these events a couple

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Speaker 2: of decades, never seen any trouble. Typical group of friends

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Speaker 2: go along together with a picnic and dinner, have a

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Speaker 2: sheaer bottle of wine in a cooler, and that's where

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Speaker 2: it's all just a bit over the top.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, And do they get that is there any nuance

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Speaker 1: in licensing or is it just a blanket rule. It's

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Speaker 1: a large gathering, So it's placetic cups full stop.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's very much just with the officials because with

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Speaker 2: a special license, they say, hey, look a Noodov said, look,

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Speaker 2: we would love to observed wine. That's what we've always done.

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Speaker 2: But they said to us they wouldn't give us a

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Speaker 2: special license unless we agreed to these conditions. Now, of

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Speaker 2: course they could appeal it to the local licensing authority.

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Speaker 2: That will take six months, costs thousands of thousands of dollars,

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Speaker 2: and so they sort of hide behind the law that

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Speaker 2: the decisions are made by the district licensing committee. In practice,

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Speaker 2: that's not the case with these sorts of special events.

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Speaker 2: And that's where we get in trouble. And I just

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Speaker 2: keep seeing this over and over again. Mike had in

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Speaker 2: the middle of Nelson, the Nelson Wine Shop in Hardy Street.

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Speaker 2: They had to screen off so that nobody from the

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Speaker 2: street would be able to see it. A wine shop

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Speaker 2: a bottle of wine now gone broke. Earlier in my

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Speaker 2: term as mere these saying people turn up and tell

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Speaker 2: us that in the top of Trafalgar Street, we've got

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Speaker 2: lots of restaurants with tables outside and we had to

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Speaker 2: screen them off because they have it. A child might

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Speaker 2: walk into the top end of Trafalgar Street and see

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Speaker 2: somebody having a beer or a wine with their meal.

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Speaker 2: It's just over zerous and over the top, and we

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Speaker 2: do need to pull it in. Mate.

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Speaker 1: Good on, you have. Nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Nick.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act,

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Speaker 1: which Nicole m Key introduced last August, I don't know

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Speaker 1: where it's at legislatively speaking. I'm assuming and Sam will

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Speaker 1: check today that this is a fix that once and

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Speaker 1: for all they're going to do something a bit sensible.

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Speaker 1: Responsible drinkers, she says, should not be penalized because of

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Speaker 1: the behavior of a few. Most people who drink alcohol

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Speaker 1: do not have a problem with it. But I'll report

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