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The First World War period brought total or partial prohibition to several countries: New Zealand came within a whisker of joining them

A selection of key New Zealand events from 1922

Alcohol remained an important issue after the war, and the prohibitionists slogged it out with the liquor trade throughout the 1920s.

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.

Prominent temperance leader Reverend Leonard Monk Isitt, 1911

Graph showing the changing prohibition vote at national elections from 1911-1987.

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.

The Blenheim Blue Ribbon Branch Band of Hope Temperance Society's abstinence pledge card from 1888.

1914 postcard showing NZ being destroyed by prohibitionists

A pledge in te reo not to drink alcohol, and a membership badge produced by the Fellowship of St Matthew

This pro-continuance poster, from the 1920s, shows refers to a claim by two British MPs that prohibition in the USA was not working.

This cartoon from Truth refers to the huge expense that would be incurred trying to track down illegal alcohol manufacturers in remoter areas of New Zealand.

This cartoon from Truth illustrates the concern among some parishioners about churches being used to hang prohibition placards on.

This Independent Order of Rachebites poster-calendar from 1913 includes portraits of temperance leaders W. A. Platt and W. Johnson.

Pro-temperance poster urging Masterton citizens to keep pubs closed in the 1911 vote.

This pro-continuance poster from 1928 urges New Zealanders not to confine themselves to a life of alcohol prohibition.

This pro-continuance poster urges New Zealanders not to follow the United States in banning alcohol and claims prohibition causes more harm than good.

This Herbert Beecroft illustration from 1905 shows Zealandia holding the people's vote draining barrels of alcohol

Trevor Lloyd cartoon showing a rabbit inside a beer barrel running into a 'continuance' hole, pursued by dogs representing the prohibitionist electorates