Two English tourists were spoken to and moved on by police after allegedly breaching council bylaws by selling Ed Sheeran merchandise to concertgoers outside the Dunedin Railway Station on Saturday evening.
But the Otago Daily Times witnessed one of the pair at it again yesterday evening, touting Ed Sheeran T-shirts near the Mobil petrol station on Anzac Ave to a group of people on their way to the English superstar’s final concert at Forsyth Barr Stadium. A Dunedin police spokesman said they were aware of the issue, but police were not the "lead agency" dealing with traders in violation of city bylaws.
Instead, four "mobile trading enforcement officers" had been contracted by the Dunedin City Council to look for offenders selling their wares without a mobile trading licence, which the council required of anyone hawking, touting or trading from a mobile vehicle or stall.
One of these officers said he was told to "*** off" on Friday by another trader operating outside the law, who told the officer it was Maori land.
