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Five Stags fights for liquor license Pirongia has been left high and dry by a liquor licensing committee ruling – but it may not be last orders. Chris Gardner reports. Nora Fu is fighting to bring back cold beer to Pirongia’s Five Stags Restaurant and Bar. Fu, the sole shareholder of the Franklin Street bar and restaurant operator Night Pearl, has been unable to sell alcohol since May 19 after the Waipā District Licensing committee declined her application for renewal of an on-licence. The restaurant and bar lost its licence after an underage staff
Pirongia Four Square owner Chris McDonnell - “disappointed for the community”.
member sold Fellow ward alcohol to a councillor Bruce minor during a Thomas met Fu police controlled after her licence purchasing was lost. operation. The “I don’t think young drinker she understood was not asked the rules,” he for proof of said. “She’s identification done a heck of and was a job, and got allowed to sit a professional outside the manager in. I licensed area think she’s on and drink the right track.” alcohol. Fu had Other Last man standing: the Five Stags Restaurant and Bar is open, but can’t sell drinks. previously been Franklin Street “We are still open, but we can’t advised drinkers businesses and sell alcohol, only food,” Fu told could not consume alcohol in the residents would love to see the outside area in front of the bar or to The News on Thursday. Five Stags get its licence renewed. Yet The Five Stags website its side until a licence variation was Pirongia Four Square owner continued to advertise “cold beer, granted for those areas. Chris McDonnell said: “I am just The licensing committee was not great food, tall tales”. disappointed for the community. “We are just waiting for a confident the licensee understood I just want them to get their hearing at the end of this month, the obligations or conditions of licence… It’s a real shame. We appealing the decision. the licence. Fu had received help want to see everyone in Pirongia “It’s not good for business.” from two licensing inspectors, do well.” Fu’s appeal will be heard by the police, and the secretary of the The Hive honey and hand made Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing licensing committee, but the products store owner Shereen Authority. committee found “there appears Parker was saddened by the loss of Waipā Pirongia-Kakepuku to be an ongoing disregard for the service that came with the loss of Ward councillor Clare St Pierre assistance given or an inability to license. described the loss of license as “a understand the obligations of a “It would be really good to have real tragedy”. licensee.” it up and running again,” she said.
She was also mourning the closing and subsequent demolition of Café on Franklin in 2022. “It feels like we are going a little bit backwards instead of forwards,” she said. “I love the potential of the area.” Last year Waipā District Council granted building consent for a bakery and three retail tenancies on the site of Café on Franklin. Now the site sits vacant and fenced.
The Hive owner Shereen Parker – “it feels like we are going a little bit backwards”.
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