Liquor outlets sprinkled 'like confetti' in ChristchurchIAIN MCGREGOR / STUFF A liquor Store on Linwood Ave near the Pages Rd intersection. Fussell questioned how society could minimise alcohol harm "if you start sprinkling liquor outlets around like confetti". There are 29 outlets with off-licences in the suburbs surrounding He Waka Tapu's treatment centre in east Christchurch. He questioned how minimising the harm of excessive consumption – an objective of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act – could be achieved "if you start sprinkling liquor outlets around like confetti". The applicant in the Harewood case, Samarth​ Limbachiya, argued his Trafford St store would not increase consumption in the area.

Source: Stuff September 17, 2017 08:53 UTC