Councillor set straight after gaffe over booze rules

The Press January 26, 2026

A Marlborough councillor thought it was illegal to buy alcohol at a town centre supermarket and take it away to drink at home ‒ and it took the council’s lawyers to set him straight.

Malcolm Taylor thought he had found a loophole in the region’s alcohol bylaw, which he raised at a meeting about extending alcohol prohibitions on Thursday.