A commercial levy on downtown business means Wellington council can throw $1.1 million at today’s Hobbit film premiere.
Council spokesman Clayton Anderson is expecting between 10,000 and 15,000 people – some of them school truants – to line the red carpet on Courtenay Place, significantly
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