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Legal decision 'opens floodgates' to ban rogue booze store operators

Dominico Zapata/Stuff Satwinder Sam Singh is seeking tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages and compensation from his former employer. Stuff for its owners’ long history of alleged exploitation of migrant workers must now close within 30 days – a final ruling that one expert says could “open the floodgates” to shut down other rogue operators. The Labour Inspectorate has used the ruling to warn liquor franchises – singling out two major chains, Thirsty Liquor and Brews – that it was time to improve, or face the consequences. The Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority (ARLA) has this week turned down an appeal by Two Brothers Ltd, which runs Tokoroa’s Thirsty Liquor store, backing an original decision by the South Waikato District Council’s liquor licensing committee to deny them a new licence.

South Auckland advocates cry foul as liquor stores keep getting approved

Advocates cry foul as more liquor stores approved: 'Why are we being ignored?'

Fireworks, fights, crashes and booze: the feud of Old Papatoetoe

Stuff Hendrick Lim has compiled a CCTV dossier of complaints against his neighbouring liquor store, including rogue fireworks, a fight, car crashes and alleged after-hours sales. Street brawls, rogue fireworks, drunken car crashes and alleged after-hour alcohol sales: Hendrick Lim watches an unusual variety of video clips on his iPhone. Every night, just after 11pm, Lim checks an app on his phone. It shows a live stream of the CCTV cameras encircling his family’s petrol station - and also gives him a perfect view of the neighbouring liquor store. He’s gathering evidence of what he alleges are repeated illicit after-hours alcohol sales. Behind Lim’s application to revoke the liquor licence of his neighbour, Gurpreet ‘Guru’ Kandola, is a bitter feud between two families which has split the business community of the south Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe.

Shut out: objector to liquor store licence barred from speaking at hearing

Dominico Zapata/Stuff Satwinder Sam Singh is seeking tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages and compensation from his former employer. A liquor licensing committee has told a community activist it will not hear his allegations that two liquor-store owning brothers exploited their migrant worker staff. Stuff reported in June how three workers alleged they were paid as little as $8 an hour and were collectively owed $400,000 in missing wages and entitlements by Hamilton-based brothers Taranjeet and Jaspreet Singh Janda. Former Salvation Army worker Colin Bridle planned to use the Stuff story and call one of the former bottle store workers as his witness when he opposed the renewal of the liquor licence for the Janda brothers’ Thirsty Liquor store in Tokoroa.