six o'clock swill

This practice came to be known as the "six o'clock swill".

The resulting rush to buy drinks after work was known as the six o'clock swill.

It depicts a barmaid working in an Australian pub at the time of the "six o'clock swill".

Rather than reduce alcohol consumption the measures led to excessive drinking in the hour before closing time which became known as the six o'clock swill.

This was the peak time of an Australian custom known as the six o'clock swill, where venues were forced to stop serving alcohol at 6pm.

Six o'clock closing of hotel bars introduced as a wartime measure, see Six o'clock swill.

At the time, hotel bars closed at 6 pm, the six o'clock swill, and inebriated patrons were then ejected into the streets.

This referendum voted to continue six o'clock closing of hotel bars, which had been introduced in 1917, and the six o'clock swill.

Another Australian pub tradition, which some considered almost as undesirable than the six o'clock swill, was the co-called "pub crawl".

During the period of the six o'clock swill, the beer was dispensed from kegs directly into customer's beer jugs using a hose and tap.

The six o'clock swill was an Australian and New Zealand slang term for the last-minute rush to buy drinks at a hotel bar before it closed.

Victoria extends hotel trading hours from 6pm to 10pm, ending the infamous "Six O'Clock Swill".

The story makes reference to the six o'clock swill, written at a time shortly after the war when it was presumed that the reader would be familiar with the phenomenon.

The NSW "six o'clock swill" saw the rise of sly-grog shops, and lasted until 1955 when the closing time was changed to 10 pm following another referendum.

In 1955, the New South Wales government extended pub closing time from 6pm to 10pm to allow more rock and roll bands to play at these clubs(see Six o'clock swill).

The Bar (1954), a painting by John Brack which was based on the six o'clock swill, was sold for a record price for an Australian painting of $3.17 million.

This was in part to eliminate the social problems associated with early closing times-notably the infamous "Six O'Clock Swill"-and the thriving trade in "sly grog" (illicit alcohol sales).

Among them were the removal of trading-hours restrictions on small businesses, abolishing juries for motor accident damage cases, extending the hours for liquor trading, thereby bringing an end to the "Six o'clock swill".

Six o'clock closing led to the notorious six o'clock swill where customers would rush to drinking establishments after work and consume alcohol heavily and rapidly in anticipation of the 6 o'clock closing.

This created the culture of the Six o'clock swill, a law that was not repealed until 1967, and was to have an influence on the styles of beer brewed and drunk in New Zealand.

Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, an autobiography of a depression era barmaid, describes the six o'clock swill, at a time (1952) when it was presumed that the reader would be familiar with the concept.

The end of the 1960s saw the end of the New Zealand institution of the "six o'clock swill", where pubs were open for only an hour after the end of the working day and closed all Sunday.

A related painting The Bar (1954) was modelled on Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, and satirised the Six o'clock swill, a social ritual arising from the early closing of Australian bars.

Australians were among the highest per capita alcohol consumers in the world, and the combination of large amounts of alcohol, an all-male clientele and aggravating factors like the six o'clock swill regularly led to violent clashes between inebriated patrons.

In any case, the law was a failure; sports and cosmopolitan workingmens clubs were considered private bars and were allowed to trade alcohol until very late and patrons would usually buy alcohol from off-licences to consume at home or at parties after the six o'clock swill.