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Lyttelton Arms Hotel advertisement

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Lyttelton Arms Hotel advertisement

In New Zealand, hotels and the consumption of alcohol have long gone hand in hand. This 1852 advertisement for a hotel in Lyttelton is quite vague in its description of accommodation ‘comforts’ and ‘conveniences’, but devotes a good deal of space to its ‘stock’ – the wide variety of alcoholic drinks available from the bar.

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Paul Christoffel, Hotels and motels – Hotels in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/21250/lyttelton-arms-hotel-advertisement (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Christoffel, published 4 March 2010.