A referendum concerning the closing hour for licensed premises and registered clubs was put to voters on 15 February 1947.

Preferences were not counted as a majority voted to maintain the 6:00 pm closing time.

They raided hotels in Liverpool before travelling by train to Sydney, where one soldier was shot dead in a riot at Central Railway station.

[2] Although it 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.