Dunedin Venues impact unknown

Forsyth Barr Stadium. Photo: ODT files
Forsyth Barr Stadium. Photo: ODT files
The scale of the financial impact of Covid-19 on Dunedin Venues remains unknown — but the council-owned company is "endeavouring to minimise [the] impact wherever possible".

Dunedin Venues marketing and communications manager Kim Barnes declined to answer detailed questions about cancelled events or the ramifications of the outbreak on the company’s bottom line yesterday other than to say it was "too early to say".

"Dunedin Venues is working closely with all of its clients who have bookings at any of its venues in the near future. Events may be postponed in the first instance.

However, this is the decision of the event owner and will depend on the logistics of making this decision. Like everybody else we will be dealing with the situation on a day-by-day basis," she said in an email.

The Highlanders game at Forsyth Barr Stadium originally scheduled for March 21 has been called off.

Australia was due to play a twenty20 international in Dunedin on March 24 but that too has been cancelled.

She would not comment on the likelihood of the All Black test against Scotland going ahead at the stadium on July 18.

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