Should there be stricter controls on liquor licences?

Photo / Janna Dixon, Herald on Sunday

Residents of one of Auckland's poorest suburbs are threatening to stage a second protest march after a liquor licence for a new bottle shop was "sneaked" through.

The licence for a former fruit and vegetable store at 140 Finlayson Ave, Clendon, has gone to a local businessman whose right to hold a liquor licence was suspended for two years after he sold alcohol to a minor at a superette in Wiri in January 2008.

About 100 Clendon residents marched in May 2007 against an application to sell liquor in a superette at the same Finlayson Ave address.

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