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Liquor Referendum sign and advertisements, Surry Hills June 1916

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Surry Hills

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Inner-city suburb located immediately to the south east of the central business district. After explosive growth in the second half of the nineteenth century it came to be seen as a slum, then experienced gentrification from the late 1960s.

Liquor Referendum Act, No 10, 1916

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Referendum held by the New South Wales government on 10 June 1916 to determine the closing hour of pubs and hotels. Six o'clock closing was introduced initially as a temporary measure during the war but made permanent in 1919. Closing time was not extended again until 1 February 1955.