Why is the Council telling a bar it can’t advertise to students?

NewstalkZB reports:

Wellington bar owner Greig Wilson is in a dispute with the Wellington City Council after being told he couldn’t distribute pamphlets advertising his bars during O-week at Victoria University. 

Wilson says he’s distributed the flyers for years – but the Victoria University of Wellington Students Association complained to the council’s licensing team that the flyers promoted a drinking environment with minimal pastoral and safety services.

The council subsequently wrote to Wilson, saying “from the inspectorates and police point of view, we believe that licensees must not be targeting students to draw them to their bars”.

That’s ridiculous. Students are adults. It is also safer for students to drink in a bar, than drinking at a party where you often get far far more drunk than is allowable in a bar.