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Rugby, racing and beer
Cover of Rod Derrett's classic 1965 record, Rugby, racing and beer.
1967 - key events
A selection of the key events in New Zealand history from 1967
Prohibition vote by soldiers cartoon
This 1919 cartoon  refers to the prohibition vote being decided by the New Zealand soldiers still overseas at the end of the First World War.
Anti-prohibition postcard
1914 postcard showing NZ being destroyed by prohibitionists
Maori abstinence pledge card
A pledge in te reo not to drink alcohol, and a membership badge produced by the Fellowship of St Matthew
Anti-prohibition poster
This pro-continuance poster, from the 1920s, shows refers to a claim by two British MPs that prohibition in the USA was not working.
Pro-continuance kiwi poster
This pro-continuance poster from 1928 urges New Zealanders not to confine themselves to a life of alcohol prohibition.
Anti USA-prohibition poster
This pro-continuance poster urges New Zealanders not to follow the United States in banning alcohol and claims prohibition causes more harm than good.
Anti-alcohol cartoon from 1905
This Herbert Beecroft illustration from 1905 shows Zealandia holding the people's vote draining barrels of alcohol
Masterton under no-license
The November 1908 licensing poll saw Masterton electorate introduce ‘no-license' and vote itself ‘dry’. Its 15 pubs closed on 1 July 1909, and remained closed until the town voted to restore liquor licenses in 1946.
The decline of prohibition
Alcohol remained an important issue after the war, and the prohibitionists slogged it out with the liquor trade throughout the 1920s.
Voting for prohibition
The First World War period brought total or partial prohibition to several countries: New Zealand came within a whisker of joining them
The no-license era - NZ temperance movement
The ‘three-fifths majority’ was a major hurdle for the temperance community, but they soon mobilised to campaign for people to vote for it.
Beginnings - NZ temperance movement
Dawn of the New Zealand temperance movement, 1881-1893
Temperance movement
Temperance was one of the most divisive social issues in late-19th and early-20th century New Zealand. Social reformers who argued that alcohol fuelled poverty, ill health, crime and immorality nearly achieved national prohibition in a series of hotly contested referendums.
Blackball Workingmen's Club
The Blackball Working Men's Club in 2008.
Black-listed for breaking beer boycott
Mining work was disrupted as the tactic of 'black-listing' strike breakers was adopted during the Greymouth beer boycott .
Communism and Working Men's Clubs
This editorial from the Greymouth Evening Star suggests that the impetus for establishing Working Men's Clubs was linked to a Communist agenda among the workers.
Paddy Keating's beer boycott letter
Although most publicans supported raising the price of a beer to 7d, Paddy Keating held out against the increase and continued to charge only 6d.
Revington's Hotel in Greymouth
Crowd outside Revington's Hotel in Greymouth.

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