In New Zealand, liquor licensing used to be just about the toughest in the known world. A series of reforms has seen the legal drinking age come down to 18, riddled with exceptions, and supermarkets and bottlestores vie to flog beer and wine. Hard liquor appears to remain the province of liquor retailing specialists, but now that licensing hours are virtually 24 x 7, you can basically get anything you want whenever you want it.

Not altogether sure that this is actually a good thing, by the way. Reporting, not editorialising, Wow!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...