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A supermarket customer buys boxes of beer along with other groceries from a Wellington supermarket on 1 December 1999. This was the first day that supermarkets were permitted to sell beer. The drinking age was also lowered from 20 to 18.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1999/3744/28-F
by John Nicholson
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