Showing posts with label prohibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prohibition. Show all posts

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Continuance or Prohibition? 1920s New Zealand Campaign Poster

Circa 1920 New Zealand Continuance poster

And boy did it fail in the United States...  and they did vote for continuance in New Zealand - although there were still some dry licensing districts for years afterwards.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Message In a Bottle at New Brighton



Sea Bass at New Brighton. They were fishing them out at a rate of 100 per hour...

What Tommy Taylor, prohibitionist and Mayor of Christchurch, 1911, hoped wouldn't wash up on the beach at New Brighton.

Doffing my hat to Canterbury Heritage which has an anti-wowser postcard posted here.