Liquor Ban and Media
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Council Pulls the Plug on City-wide Booze Ban
- 18 Jul 2010
- Salient
- Newtown and Mt Cook forced to sober up Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast may not have been able to implement her city-wide booze ban, but she has been successful in extending the liquor-free zone.
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Sighs of relief
- 29 Jun 2010
- Capital Times
- DEPUTY Mayor Ian McKinnon is glad Wellington won’t get a citywide liquor ban, but was surprised by the way some of the councillors voted. McKinnon thinks public reaction and the facts speak for themselves. The council received 604 submissions
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Bullshit, says the mayor to her councilors
- 26 Jun 2010
- Wellington Scoop
- It didn’t seem to be a good day for Wellington Mayor Prendergast at Wednesday’s meeting of her council’s strategy and policy committee. After an amendment to the city-wide alcohol ban was proposed by Cr Wain – to limit its extension to two suburbs where there was public support for it – the mayor instructed the councilors that, by living in the city voted 12th in the world in quality of life, they should “have the guts” to vote for the city-wide ban which she favoured.
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This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 10 comments.
- ‘Some Councillors (long in the tooth) bring their knitting to SPC meetings. Others (new age) bring babies, it is a circus really.’
- ‘Thank you for the clarification, Celia, and your comments in the debate were appreciated as well.’
- ‘Time for a change, and this may show others what she’s really like.’
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missprints RT @wellynews: Wellington Scoop - Bullshit, says the mayor to her councilors http://tinyurl.com/2dy2ky5
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To ban or not to ban
- 22 Jun 2010
- Capital Times
- A large majority of Wellingtonians don’t want a citywide liquor ban, but Wellington City Council officers do. The council received 604 written submissions on the proposal to amend the city’s Liquor Control Bylaw, which presented three options: to have a citywide liquor ban, no ban at all, or a ban in specified areas. Of the submissions, 76% were opposed to a blanket 24/7 liquor ban.
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newswirenz RT @wellynews: Capital Times To ban or not to ban (liquor ban voted by Wgtn council affects Newtown & Mt Cook) http://tinyurl.com/22twfws
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Zumba! Zumba! Zumba!
- 28 Apr 2010
- Wellington Scoop
- he city council phoned me this week. It wanted to know what I thought about its plan for a city-wide drinking ban 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It wasn’t actually the council who called. It was a market research company, hired by the council. But the questioning were more or less unbiased, except when the researcher told me the police prefer a city-wide ban. However he didn’t push the council view.
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The politics of urinating
- 31 Mar 2010
- Wellington Scoop
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This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 3 comments.
- ‘I think Wellingtonians WANT to end up living in a city filled with cctv cameras, undercover parking wardens, and bans on thinking. Why else wouldn’t they rise up and vote out this bunch of Councillors? It is the COUNCILLORS who allow our rights to be de’
- ‘Well said Rosamund. The WCC propaganda machine is working overtime on this one. Wonder why…. maybe the whole truth will come out one day.’
- ‘The next thing we will be told is that urinating in public, albeit discretely, is a matter of safety. After all, this seems to be the argument for all manner of things from surveillance cameras to even more bizarrely tagging and felling healthy trees wit’
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To ban or not to ban
- 30 Mar 2010
- Capital Times
- WELLINGTON could waste up to $200,000 on a proposed Liquor Control Bylaw if Central Government policy overrides it, says Wellington City Councillor Iona Pannett.
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The council encourages whisky-drinking while it says it wants to ban liquor
- 18 Feb 2010
- Wellington Scoop
- The Wellington City Council seems to be in denial. Having created the happy, over-the-top mayhem that is Courtenay Place every weekend, it’s now trying to calm things down with a ban on liquor in any public place. It already has a liquor ban in the central city, as is evidenced by its over-sized signs on lampposts. But now it wants to extend the ban into the suburbs as well.
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This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 10 comments.
- ‘Dear Lindsay The problem it seems to me is that a city wide liquor ban forbidding the possession of alcohol in public places treats the possession/use of alcohol as a crime, rather than the abuse of alcohol. That possession includes when it is in your v’
- ‘But Tom the liquor sales at primary school fairs, licensed or not, are where the bad behaviour starts. Children have a right to alcohol free spaces. You would think primary schools would be the last place where they are confronted with adults drinking at’
- ‘Tom – this is a law that will be contravened by many, but enforced on only a few. It gives the police a tool that enables them to address drinking. A law designed to address unacceptable behaviour should do just that, not criminalise an activity of many’
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Back on the street
- 10 Sep 2008
- Capital Times
- IS the liquor ban increasing the number of homeless? Two Downtown Community Ministry clients with a history of homelessness who stay in rented flats could end up back on the street.
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Prohibition coming back?
- 2 Apr 2008
- Capital Times
- WELLINGTON city could find itself a historical flashback with semi-prohibition the rule on our streets.
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Liquor ban arrests
- 8 Aug 2007
- Capital Times
- THE Wellington Police’s tougher stance on liquor ban breaches has sparked fears that anyone carrying a bottle of alcohol – opened or unopened – in a liquor ban zone will be arrested on the spot without question.
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City ban may shift youth drinking
- 18 Apr 2007
- Capital Times
- EXTENDING the liquor ban into Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria will simply push the problem into the suburbs, says Councillor Rob Goulden.
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