Extension of Closing Time
Closing time was extended to 10 p.m. in Tasmania from 1937. The issue of ending early closing was voted on in New South Wales in 1947, but the proposal was voted down, but a vote in 1954 narrowly won, and closing hours were extended to 10 p.m. in 1955. Hours were extended in Victoria in 1966, and South Australia was the last state to abolish six o'clock closing with legislation introduced by Don Dunstan in 1967 and the first legal after-six beer being drunk on 28 September.
Bar closing times were extended to 10 p.m. in New Zealand on 9 October 1967, three weeks after a referendum . An earlier referendum, in 1949, had voted three to one to retain six o'clock closing, but there was partial repeal of the law in 1961, which allowed restaurants to sell liquor until midnight but not hotel bars.
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In waders and peaked cap
Into the showery dark,
A dole-kept breadwinner
But a natural for work.”
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The Diapason closing full in Man.”
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Together with that fair and warlike form
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Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee speak!”
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