Liquor Ban related newsitems

• • 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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• • 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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• • Fight for your right to party

    • 31 Mar 2010
    • The Wellingtonista
    •  If you want to do anything about the proposal to extend the liquor ban to cover the whole city 24/7, get your submission in now.
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• • The politics of urinating

    • 31 Mar 2010
    • Wellington Scoop
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    Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • City-wide liquor ban consultation starts next week

    • 24 Mar 2010
    • The Wellingtonista
    • A few weeks ago we wrote about the proposed city-wide ban on "drinking and carrying liquor in public places, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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• • One step closer to a city-wide alcohol ban

    • 19 Feb 2010
    • The Wellingtonista
    • The council is going to draft a by-law to ban drinking in public places.
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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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• • 24-Hour Liquor Ban for Wellington City

    • 29 Jun 2008
    • Texture
    • Wellington City will be under a 24-hour liquor ban as of the 31st of July. Wellington City Council voted on an amendment to the Liquor Control bylaw, which is currently effective from 5pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 8am the following morning. That ban is situated upon the central city, Oriental Bay and Mt Victoria Lookout. When the amendment comes into effect, Aro Valley and Central park will be added to those liquor no-go zones.
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    Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Ban the ban!

    • 14 Mar 2006
    • WellUrban
    • Central Wellington currently has a liquor ban in place on Friday and Saturday nights, prohibiting drinking in public spaces. This might seem draconian enough, but the council doesn't think so, and is planning to extend it.
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