At least one Queenstown bar will be investigated by the Liquor Licensing Authority after a weekend of alcohol-fuelled mayhem in the resort.
Sergeant Keith Newell, the alcohol harm reduction officer in Queenstown, said he had complained to the authority about the Dux de Lux bar after a heavily intoxicated 30-year-old Australian tourist was found lying on the street at 9.30pm on Saturday.
The woman was found in a shop doorway, about 50m from the bar, by a member of the public.
She was lying in the fetal position, having vomited and soiled herself, Sgt Newell said.
She had been drinking for about six hours at Dux de Lux.
He said Queenstown police were busy dealing with "quite a few" incidents involving alcohol over the weekend.
"I'm pretty disgusted and annoyed. All incidents are as a result of people having too much alcohol . . . They are getting pumped up by local licensees, who should know better. We will continue to take matters to the authority if this is the way they are going to behave," he said.
An intoxicated 32-year-old Queenstown builder was charged with assaulting a female and police after a comedy show at the Memorial Hall on Friday night.
The man was being loud and obnoxious at the show and had been asked to be quiet by another man.
After the show, he tried to punch the man but missed and punched a Queenstown woman instead.
She received stitches to a cut above her eye, Sgt Newell said.
The man was pepper-sprayed before being arrested.
Sgt Newell said policewere called over an alcohol-fuelled fight outside the Frankton Arms at 11.20pm on Friday.
A 26-year-old Chilean woman was charged with wilful trespass and resisting arrest at 3am yesterday after she became intoxicated and refused to leave the Sky Bar.
A 30-year-old Arrowtown man was arrested after an unprovoked attack on a 24-year-old Queenstown man at 3.30am yesterday.
He was charged with injuring with intent to injure.
