A liquor ban to coincide with "Crate Day'' is being mooted for Queenstown. This year's Crate Day event coincides with the 2017 rugby league Nines Carnival, being held at the Queenstown Recreation Ground - an area the council has proposed to include in a temporary ban area on December 2 and 3. It was being sought to prevent a repeat of ``high levels of disorder'' which occurred in the resort as part of last year's Crate Day event. Crate Day is an unofficial event in which participants consume a crate of beer during the first weekend of summer. ``By early afternoon the entire reserve was occupied with a large crowd drinking large quantities of alcohol, with crates of beer kept chilled in Horne Creek.''

Source: Otago Daily Times September 25, 2017 16:02 UTC