Cracking it open

Enjoying Crate Day responsibly are (back row, from left) Abdullah Mirza, Georgia Francis, Sarah Williment, Meg Steadman and Amelia Francis; (front row, from left) Hannah Brimelow, Jarvis Cross, Emma Orr, Vivienne Lau and Arielle Van Blerk at The Hilton flat in Clyde St, Dunedin’s student quarter, on Saturday.

Crate day was invented as a radio station marketing stunt in 2009 and morphed into an unofficial holiday, held on the first Saturday of New Zealand’s summer.

It has developed a vexed reputation for links to drunken disorder and alcohol harm in previous years.