Two police officers were on hand as Seymour and Brewer left the store after Seymour\u2019s staff had reported the incident to security. One protester briefly followed Seymour as he walked back to Parliament but no incident occurred. <\/p>\n
Asked if the protest action was a sign of what\u2019s to come in the election campaign, Seymour said it was a \u201creal shame\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, a small number of people are able to stop a whole lot of other good people trying to come in and buy toys for their children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think they do their cause any good, I suspect more and more New Zealanders are frankly sick of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the interruption, Seymour and Brewer pressed on with the announcement, which was the Government recognising United States and European Union toy standards to allow more toys to be compliant in New Zealand. <\/p>\n
Seymour, the Regulation Minister, said it could relieve costs for toy importers between $3500 and $5000, which are paid currently if toys aren\u2019t compliant with New Zealand standards. <\/p>\n
Seymour said it was estimated to save $6.8 million over 10 years. He was unable to say to what extent prices would reduce as a result, but was confident prices would decrease due to increased competition. <\/p>\n
Brewer, the Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister, was assured it wouldn\u2019t put children at more risk. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis doesn\u2019t lessen safety at all, this gives us best practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no concern that there\u2019s no concern whatsoever that safety is being compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two police officers were on hand as Seymour and Brewer left the store after Seymour\u2019s staff had reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9344,26857,1559,53314,14229,6284,33092,25137,17752,34464,266,42,78,6722,43,675,415,25266,16797,11422,2735,40,38,41,39,125000,15900,1316,113010],"class_list":["post-504079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-announcement","tag-brewer","tag-called","tag-cameron","tag-changing","tag-david","tag-deputy","tag-disrupt","tag-disrupted","tag-entered","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-police","tag-prime","tag-protesters","tag-seymour","tag-standards","tag-store","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-toyworld","tag-wellingtons","tag-when","tag-yelled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}