By Matiu Hamuera and Zoe Madden-Smith
“Put it this way, on a Saturday, you could carry on, you'd know that there'd be somewhere that you could go to next. Whereas now at 9.30 pm, we've been told it's last call.”
We hear from Taranaki locals on the street about how the nightlife in New Plymouth is like now following two years of a global pandemic.
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