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Elwyn and Russel Scott and their daughter Lisa Butcher at the opening of the Whistling Sisters Brewery which is the only hospitality business the Scotts will keep running to raise funds for secondary breast cancer in memory of their daughter, Karen Hunter.
Veteran Wellington publican Russel Scott is bowing out, almost completely, from of a lifelong business career in the brewing and hospitality industry. Scott, in his 73rd year, founded some of the capital’s best known and loved pub businesses like The Backbencher and Flanagans started by him and other ex-Lion Breweries staffers. Scott has agreed to sell three well-known businesses in Featherston St to sharemarket listed company Good Spirits Hospitality (GSH) for $3.4 million plus stock on hand of $75,000.