The City is Ours moving booze?

Team effort and persistence paid off recently when a supermarket was told to move their booze from the front of their shop.

The City is Ours, who put up the $ 330 application fee to oppose the liquor license with the Liquor Licensing Authority in 2010, congratulated the community and those who stayed staunch believing in what they stand for. Maria van der Meel, ex-president of The City is Ours, said it is disheartening when small communities like Newtown are prohibited from opposing any liquor license by the cost of the application fee needed to proceed to the next level.

The tenacity of one Bernard O'Shaughnessy was apparent during the 2010 proceedings when he was able to address Judge Edward Unwin chairman of the Liquor Licensing Authority convincingly, and successfully raised the question given the emphasis on the sale of liquor whether Newtown New World "was a bottle store which also sells groceries". Newtown New World owner Donald Chung, who inherited the problem from the previous owner Gary Baker, would have been under no illusion that one day he would have to move that booze.

In 2011 The City is Ours unsuccessfully challenged the liquor license application for the Wellington Regional Stadium during the Rugby World Cup.

With a total of 705 liquor licenses in force the Wellington City Council collected $ 637,983 in liquor fees in 2013-2014 from off, on and club licenses, special licenses, manager's certificates and temporary authorities, up $ 182,016 from the previous year.

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