Story: Liquor laws

First liquor licence, 1840

Petition on Sunday closing, 1856

Castle Hill Hotel, 1879

Petition by Te Tatana Waitaheke on Māori access to liquor, 1871

Temperance campaigner Bessie Lee, early 1900s

Prohibition referendums

Dry electorates

Results of liquor licensing referendums, 1911–87

Restrictions on liquor consumption by Māori

Barmaids

Liquor and the fall of empires

Pro-continuance poster, 1920s

Brown Owl restaurant, 1944

6 o'clock closing

10 o'clock closing

Porirua Tavern, 1967

ALAC poster, 1979

Beer on sale in a supermarket, 1999

March for liquor law reform, 2010