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Article: Vomit stains in the Viaduct do not a world-class city make.
- Article from:
- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2008
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AT THE risk of being labelled a wowser, you have to wonder what hallucinogens fuelled the decision-makers who decided 24-hour liquor trading would help make downtown Auckland a world-class city.
Perhaps there is a Utopia where people can sit around 24 hours a day, supping ambrosia and engaging in witty banter without falling down drunk or hitting a contrary passerby over the head with a glass bottle.
Perhaps there's even a place where a tipsy maiden can disappear off with a team of rugby players and emerge from their hotel some hours later having seen nothing more than their etchings.
But such a place, Auckland is not. As Downtown police boss, Senior Sergeant Ben ...
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