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… The history of the prohibition movement in New Zealand has been determined by … aim of a system of State-enforced total abstinence. The movement first attained national importance and enjoyed its … The Movement in New Zealand …
… The 1919 polls represented the supreme effort of the prohibitionists, and since that time the strength and electoral support of the movement have steadily declined. During the 1920s the …
… for reduction. The Act erected severe barriers for the prohibition forces, but great optimism prevailed in late … political issue. For the first time the strength of the prohibition movement on a national scale was brought home to …
… of local “no-license leagues”, which combined all the prohibition and temperance groups in each licensing … it did have its own funds and published a newspaper, The Prohibitionist . The alliance, as the national … was a formidable political force. The furore over the movement's demands for licensing legislation in 1893 wrecked …
… and its original platform consisted of “Peace, Purity, and Prohibition”. The movement began in New Zealand in 1885 with the arrival from …
… of licences, and eventually the question of national prohibition, subject to popular vote. The legislation was … then Prime Minister. Fox was a fervent advocate of complete prohibition and the first important public figure in New Zealand to be identified with the movement. He was at that stage an extremist on the liquor …
… votes from local polls was to decide the issue of national prohibition by the same majority. The announcement of the … of the poll in a way that was to change the history of the prohibition movement completely. The Amendment Act provided …
… social reform made the growth of a strong temperance and prohibition movement inevitable. The cause took on the fervour of a …
… of the New Zealand Alliance for the Suppression and Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic, which was founded at a … saw increased prohibition strength in Parliament, and the movement suddenly emerged as a major force on the political …
… governments for legislation designed to discourage or prohibit the sale of liquor. The cause of temperance became … for nearly four decades after its inception the temperance movement made steady progress, and at the end of the First World War national prohibition came within an ace of being enacted. Since then …