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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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