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Anger at new liquor store
A discount liquor store is planned to open near Washington Valley and Victory after it was initially granted resource consent last month. But the new store, to be opened on Gloucester St, has met some opposition with the Victory Community Centre and at least one Nelson City councillor objecting to the move, which comes just months after a liquor store opened at Victory
Square. SRS Ghuman & Sons – owned by Palmerston North man Ranbir Singh – was granted consent in late January, but a consultation period for the consent, which closes on Thursday, has already attracted 13 submissions. Mr Singh has previously seen a community in Kapiti successfully oppose the opening of one of his liquor stores, as they tend
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andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz to push “high volume, low priced” RTD drinks. The name given on the council plan is Big Barrel, which operates in several cities in the North Island, although Big Barrel says it knows nothing about a store
in Nelson. Kindra Douglas, director of the Victory Community Centre, says there are already enough liquor outlets in the area and she is against another setting up shop. “We don’t like the idea of yet another liquor store, we believe that there are more than enough outlets. We have two super-
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Where’s our most wonderful woman? Local businesswomen looking for Nelson’s most wonderful woman. They are from left; Julie Forbes, Kate Donaldson, Karen Jordan, Lauren Lewis, Paulette Potter, Melanie Potter, Jan Taylor, Jo Menary, Amy Cunningham and Lynley Matthews. Photo: Andrew Board.
A group of local businesswomen are keen find Nelson’s “most wonderful” woman. The women, from 11 local businesses, have joined forces to run the promotion which closes on International Women’s Day, March
8. Nominations will be collected from the public with a voting panel and the mayor to decide the overall winner, who will take home a prize pack worth $2300. Event coordinator Karen Jordan says they want people to
nominate women who stand out in their lives, not necessarily business or community leaders. “Every day we come across amazing women in this great
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