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Six o'clock closing was introduced during the First World War, partly as an attempt to improve public morality and partly as a war austerity measure. Before this reform, most hotels and public houses in Australia had closed at 11 or 11:30 pm. [1] Support for changing hotel closing times originally came from the temperance movement, which hoped that implementing restrictions on the sale of ...
Six o'clock closing was introduced during the First World War, partly as an attempt to improve public morality and partly as a war austerity measure. Before this reform, most hotels and public houses in Australia had closed at 11 or 11:30 pm. [1] Support for changing hotel closing times originally came from the temperance movement, which hoped that implementing restrictions on the sale of ...
Although 6 o'clock closing was introduced as a temporary measure, the government brought in extensions and discussed putting the matter to a referendum. In 1923, however, without testing the matter by a popular vote, the Fuller Nationalist government enacted 6 pm as the closing time. [5]
The first state to introduce early closing was South Australia in 1916 as a war austerity measure. New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania followed in the same year, as did New Zealand in 1917. Western Australia adopted a 9pm closing time, but Queensland retained the old closing times until it introduced eight o'clock closing in 1923. [3]
A referendum concerning the closing hour for licensed premises and registered clubs was put to voters on 15 February 1947. The referendum was conducted on the basis of optional preferential voting. Preferences were not counted as a majority voted to maintain the 6:00 pm closing time.
Six o'clock closing, leading to the six o'clock swill, had been introduced in NSW as a temporary measure following the 1916 referendum and was not abolished until the 1954 referendum. [ 6 ] On 2 October 1947 the Supreme Court held that the members of a registered club, the Royal Sydney Golf Club , were inmates within the meaning of s. 57 of the ...
The night from six o'clock in the evening to six o'clock in the morning was divided into four watches or vigils of three hours each, the first, the second, the third, and the fourth vigil. [10] The Night Office is linked to Psalm 119:62 : "At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments."
This referendum voted to abolish six o’clock closing of hotel bars and the six o’clock swill. The Sale of Liquor referendum, 1949 had voted to continue six o’clock closing, which had been introduced in 1917. The referendum was held in conjunction with the 1967 New Zealand parliamentary term referendum. Bar closing times were extended to ...