Liquor laws

Date: [1880-1965]

By: New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic

Reference: 77-206

Description: Records comprising subject files, executive and various committee minutes, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous material Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 18 box(es). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plaque re memorial window placed in 1st Pakeha Church to commemorate the Sacred Pact not to sell liqour to Maori - To Photographic Archive - Portrait of Ratana clergy, ca 1950s; negative of King Country Pact plaque (PAColl-8347) - To Cartographic Collection - Two maps (PR-05-0227).

Date: 1946-1974

By: New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic

Reference: 82-217

Description: Branch minutes, 1954-1967; AGM minutes, 1960-1969; Dominion Executive minutes, 1960-1969; financial papers, 1961-1974; correspondence, 1960s; newspaper clippings, 1967-1968; cheque butts, some display material and ephemera. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 16 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter Provenance: Jim Godfrey was Branch Secretary during this period

Date: 1894-1908

By: Masterton Licensing Committee

Reference: qMS-1346

Description: Minutes of the authority responsible for granting, renewal, transfer and revocation of liquor licences in the Masterton district Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (145 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (34 cm, ½ brown calf, blue boards)

Date: 2003 - 2004

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-

Reference: H-742-001/009

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Quantity: 9 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-454

Description: Shows a man with a camera. Another man is asking him if he is interested in buying some postcards. There are five postcards showing a mud pool, steam bores, Mt Eden, a restaurant and an industrial strike. Refers to suggestions that New Zealand exploits the selling of souvenirs to tourists. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, 205 x 255mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1983 - 1985

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-036/054

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. English royals sell off surplus New Zealand gifted wedding presents. New economy-fare airlines hit the skys. People encouraged to talk to their plants. Vehicle license fees up by 93%. Claims that human water-births would contribute to world peace.. Father's Day now celebrated during school holidays. Public response to grocery price-freeze. Maori rugby tours avoid arguements over racially selected teams. Two men muse over the reason for burning Guy Fawkes. Protesting at Waitangi on Wantangi Day. New Zealand fear of nuclear warships accelerates. Airlines begin serving liquor on board flights. Test-tube baby experiments have been approved in Auckland. People consider the 1984 'end of the world' scenario. Marsden Refinery workers return to work after their strike. Marsden Refinery workers strike. The Muldoon National Government calls a snap election amidst the Marsden Refinery strike. New Zealand resistance against the a USA Navy warship. Patients in the hospital outpatients get their respective wounds dealt to following protests for and against rugby tours and gay rights. Quantity: 19 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1972-1975

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-006/13/Pt1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1976

From: [Posters advertising or promoting taverns, bars and nightclubs. 1900-1999]

By: Traue, James Edward, 1932-2023

Reference: Eph-C-TAVERN-1976-01

Description: An arrangement of text with the logo of the association at the top. Refers to the Licensing Act which prohibits gambling, the presence of minors in bars and the sale of liquor to those under 21 years of age. Warns about behaviour which could increase the road toll. Dated by donor. Possibly refers to the 1962 Sale of Liquor act. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 480 x 363 mm. Provenance: Two copies: one donated by Jim Traue in 1976; the other donated anonymously by a staff member in 2000.

Date: 1908

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-ALCOHOL-Prohibition-1908-01

Description: Columns of text, with photographs of Ashburton Racecourse Grandstand, St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Ashburton Guardian and Mail Offices, Ashburton Domain Tennis courts, New Salvation Army Barracks, Mr William Myers' Grocery store, Mr Wilkie's Butcher shop owned by Mr William Bryant, Ashburton High School, St Stephen's Anglican Church, the Roman Catholic Presbytery, Messrs James Smith & Son's steam joinery works, and the private residences of Mr Joseph Fletcher, Mr R Bell, H. D. Acland, George Hosken, William Reid, Arthur Paget, Fred Smith, Henry Stephenson, William Bryant, William Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 572 x 885 mm.

Date: 1954 - 1960

From: [Menus and ephemera of octavo size relating to restaurants. 1950s]

By: Kennedy, David, active 1960s

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1950s-01

Description: Card from an Auckland restaurant shows an illustration by David Kennedy, of three circular tables in a restaurant. Under each table sit men in suits, purporting to be table supports but in fact all drinking alcohol surreptitiously. In the background a policeman has opened the door and is looking in to check for illicit drinking. The text reads: "It has been said that our liquor laws are out of date, but at least they give rise to one of the most charming New Zealand customs ... under-the-table drinking". The Gourmet got its first liquor licence on 13 December 1960 (information retrieved 4 December 2014 from http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/entertainment/sunday/sunday-magazine-a chive-26514/52656/NZs-changing-restaurant-scene ) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on light card, 190 x 127 mm

Date: 17 Jun 1997

By: Costar, Dorothy Christina, 1942-; Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; New Zealand. Department of Corrections

Reference: OHColl-0549/1

Description: Dorothy Christina Costar born Thames. Outlines family background - father, a miner, later worked for A & G Price, Thames. Mother was dental receptionist for [Mr] Shaw, the dentist, Thames. Describes: Thames which had a population of five and a half thousand people; schools - Thames South and Thames Central, with reference to Miss Baker; school uniforms; Church of Christ Sunday School and picnics in the Kauaeranga Valley. Refers to six o clock closing and recalls a fatal accident when friend was killed and comments on the $50 fine driver received. Mentions different attitude towards drinking and driving in those days. Recalls various jobs - Jamesfield clothing factory and Hutton the jewellers before joining the WRNZAF at Wigram, 1961 ending up as Flight Sergeant in charge of the joint services telephone exchange in Wellington. Recalls amalgamation of services, with reference to Ministry of Defence. Backgrounds circumstances leading to career with Prison Service and refers to Rev Hoddinutt. Commenced at Mt Eden prison October 1966 as assistant matron. Refers to Miss Molloy (Molly), chief matron who wore a veil. Describes process of training, with reference to examination subjects, psychology, penology, criminology and Acts and Regulations. Refers to the old Raven's Matrice test - psychological test. Discusses Arohata, the women's borstal: its daily routine; uniforms; punishment, with reference to deprivation of privacy; recreation; transportation of prisoners between Arohata and Dunedin women's prison. Talks about the integration of Mt Eden Prison and preparation for women prisoners and choosing staff. Discusses changes to the system and notes there is now more emphasis on rehabilitation - people have case management and are assessed to see what their needs are. Mentions the introduction of computers and health and safety courses, with reference to AIT [Auckland Institute of Technology]. Refers to Alternatives to Violence Programme, started by Quakers (Society of Friends) and mentions PARS (Prisoners' Aid & Rehabilitation Society). Other topics discussed include: split of the Justice Department into Corrections and Courts, with reference to Penal Division; numbers of Maori and Pacific Island offenders; glue sniffing; drug addiction; policy for mothers and children; change in hierarchical structure; child abuse, with reference to Women's Refuge; and the rebuilding of Mt Eden which commenced 1986, with reference to the Mason Clinic. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Venue - Mt Eden Prison Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008078-008080 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2235.

Date: 30 Oct 1995, 18 Jun 1996 - 30 Oct 1995 - 18 Jun 1996

From: Neville Lambert Memorial oral archive

By: Black, Arthur Gordon, 1919-2011

Reference: OHInt-0585/06

Description: Arthur Gordon Black recalls earliest recollections when he was a boy of four at Porangahau (Southern Hawkes Bay) in 1923 living on a soldier's resettlement farm. Mentions grandfather who lived with them and who had served in Afghanistan war. Describes childhood activities, traversing much of the countryside on foot and pony, finding a bird's nest which contained a human skull with a stone axe in it, and which is now in Napier Museum. Also describes Porangahau School and mentions Miss Tracey who taught there from 1924-1945 and Alf Mudgway. Mentions itinerant gentleman who took music. Other aspects of Porangahau discussed includes: Six o clock closing and Maori rule of not being allowed to take liquor away from hotel; 1931 Earthquake; Proficiency exam; lack of co-educational schools; camps for unemployed; Depression; college uniforms and church parades. Describes Wellington Teachers' College which re-opened after the Depression in 1938 and refers to New Education Conference. Mentions Frank Lopdell, Frank Coombs, Walter Scott and Ron Lockhart. Refers to First Labour Government in 1935. Outlines teaching career, commencing with probationary year at Te Awa School followed by sole charge at Tarawera. Explains how sole charge operated. Talks about experience in Air Force, spending three months in Mounted Rifle camp and refers to Sir Andrew Russell. Mentions Conscription. In 1942 joined Navy and talks about trip across Pacific to Canada, referring to `HMS Philomel' and `Capetown Castle'. Recalls two months course at St Vincents; flying Tiger Moths, Harvards and Barracuda (flying bomber) and learning to dive bomb and drop torpedoes. Talks about experience when at Crail. Recalls returning to New Zealand on HMS 'Illustrious'. Mentions wife, Margaret, having to wait for ship bringing war brides. Recalls having to undertake refresher course [post war] before taking a teaching position at Te Karaka District High School. Mentions A E Manning (Principal). Talks about involvement in Institute (NZEI). Other aspects of teaching career discussed include: Currie Report; Ruatoria School which was used as a model school for Maori education; Grading systems; first parent teacher group; Truant Officers; role of visiting teacher; Basic equipment scheme; Maori schools which were administered by Maori Affairs Department with separate Maori inspectors; teacher welfare; corporal punishment; Ministers of Education, with reference to Phil Amos and discussion on maternity leave [early 1970s]. Considers NZEI has helped teachers immeasurably in conditions of service. Mentions Dr Beeby and his philosophy. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Roger Dougls Caley Venue - Massey Street, Hastings Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008898-008899, OHC-008900; OHLC-004545-004547 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2763.

Date: 22 May 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: McGowan, Terence Alexander, 1913-2002; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-

Reference: OHInt-0428/14

Description: Chappie McGowan was born in Invercargill in 1913. Describes how his father worked at the paper mill for fifty six years. Talks about his mother being Presbyterian, becoming Catholic when she married his father and his parents having strong religious views. Notes they did not oppose alcohol and they and Chappie made home brew. Describes how Mataura was in a `dry' area until prohibition was voted out. Mentions making elderberry wine, parsnip wine and beer. Talks about `Waimahaka swamp juice' and Mr Enright. Mentions Mr Enright's whisky was delivered to the rabbit sheds where he was foreman. Describes heavy fines and jail sentences for making Hokonui whisky. Comments on the role of Customs rather than the police in bringing charges. Discusses the influence of the Depression and the war on the popularity of Hokonui. Contends that people were in it to make money. Describes how Hokonui was sometimes delivered in milk cans and `Waimahaka swamp juice' was delivered by the rabbit lorry. Mentions the closest pub was at Mandeville and locals would hire a taxi to the pub. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Photocopies of photos of Chappie as a boy, young man and with his wife Nellie McGowan Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2606.

Date: 21 May 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: Hill, Ballington Everard Richard, 1926-2011; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-

Reference: OHInt-0428/10

Description: Ev Hill was born in Invercargill in 1926. Recalls a close relationship with his father who had a difficult time in World War I and was given a very poor rehab (rehabilitation) farm after the war. Recalls living in a tent on a farm his father bought in Gorge Road. Describes a religious mother who was a Salvation Army officer and head of the local Temperance Union, regular attendance at church and an absence of fun. Recalls the values of `God and the King' passed on by his parents. Mentions that the Mataura Licensing Trust was `dry' until 1954. Recalls having his first drink of Hokonui whisky, made by local supplier Major Gerald Enright (known as the Major or Del), when he was fourteen. Describes Hokonui as the `local moonshine'. Discusses the Major, his farm and stills, amiable relationship with the community, regular attendance at Mass and friends in high places providing petrol coupons. Comments that everyone, including the Inland Revenue department and the police, knew about the Major's activities. Explains how he became a driver for the Major from 1941-1942 because he wanted a motorcar. Describes how the Major bought him a 1934 Chevrolet for which he worked, doing deliveries of Hokonui around Southland, Otago and Christchurch, until the car was paid off. Notes he worked for him for about a year. Describes the smell of cooking the mash for the alcohol and the process of distilling it. Discusses his delivery routes, safe houses, the excise men, a network of informants and an incident when he transported Constable Bandy to an accident when the car was full of Hokonui. Mentions the Major was later prosecuted. Comments on the legacy of Hokonui. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Copy of photo of Lilly, Priscilla and Ruth Wilson ca 1917, Invercargill; copy of newspaper article `Prohibition runner recalls the rush' Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2602.

Date: 23 Nov 1992

From: Pop Music Oral History Project

By: Adderley, Tommy Arthur, 1940-1993

Reference: OHInt-0485-02

Description: Tommy Adderley was born in Birmingham, England in 1940. Outlines family's involement in World War II including his father, member of the West African Army Corps and present at the liberation of the Belson Camp in Germany. Remembers German bombings in 1943 and 1944. Outlines education and early musical tastes. Details job as cook, apprenticeship as pipe fitter and joining the Merchant Navy aged fifteen to become first class steward. Discusses first ship, the S.S. Dominion Monarch sailing to New Zealand via Africa, the Canary Islands and Australia. Recounts cargo stops in Wellington and Lyttelton, shore leave, duties on board and entertainment on ship from Tony and the Initials, Tommy Ferguson and Nick Villard from the Embers. Outlines rehearsals with Tommy Ferguson and Ray Maby playing on board and local dances while in port. Recalls transfer to the Rangitane and introduction to Wellington music scene. Mentions the Maori Volcanics, Hi-Five and Johnny Devlin. Discusses decision to jump ship in Australia, 1959, trip to New Zealand on the Wanganella, work as a barman at St George Hotel and playing at the Pines Cabaret with Garth Young and Slim Norwood. Outlines recording with Laurie Lewis, Don Richardson and the Wellington Jazz Orchestra under Alex Jennings' Lexion label. Mentions Justin Du Fresne's Sunset Show, Selwyn Toogood and the Lever Hit Parade. Outlines move to Auckland in 1963. Discusses recording on General Artists label, American exposure, lack of recording contracts, Television New Zealand's 1962 'Big Show' and 1964 'Showtime Spectacular'. Details recording successes, Australian performances with Mark Perjanik, Bruce King, Jack Harrison, Wally Scott, George Varna, Neil Metcalfe and Allison Durbin, Jimmy Sloggett's band back in New Zealand, Radio Hauraki and shows at Hatchetts, an Auckland club renamed the Ace of Hearts. Discusses time with group Headband with Dick Hopp, Jack Stradwick, Alan Quinnell, Jimmy Hill, Billy Kristian and Ronny Craig playing at 'Granny's'. Names Headband songs 'Good morning Mr Rock and Roll' and 'The laws must change'. Outlines co-ownership of the Green Door, a late night Auckland cafe, with David Gapes. Talks about introduction of liquor licensing laws in 1979 and their effects on clubs. Details the Auckland drug scene and time spent in Mount Eden and Witako prisons for drugs conviction from 1980. Discusses work in prison bakery and later role teaching at prison officer training college at Trentham. Discusses establishing New Zealand International Jazz Festival, work with telethon and London jazz career. Talks about current projects. Refers to Mike Walker, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Bill and Boyd, Peter Posa, Dinah Lee, Lou and Simon, Mannfred Mann, the Kinks, the Honeycombs, Paul Jones, Midge Marsden, Barry and the Breakaways, the Merseymen, Elaine Page, Split Enz, Hello Sailor and Fourmyula. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Roger Watkins Venue - 3/179 Jervois Road, Herne Bay, Auckland Accompanying material - Photocopy of article `Knee deep in the blues' from Metro September 1993 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005003-005005; OHLC-001129, 001130, 001131 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1826.

Date: 2013

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-E-ALCOHOL-Hours-2013-01

Description: Poster advising bar patrons to prepare for earlier closing of bars in Wellington City, at a time when no public transport will be available. Shows an illustration of a man holding out a beer bottle towards the viewer. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers Ltd in March 2014

Date: 1999

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper); Qantas Airways Ltd

Reference: H-621-001/012

Description: Political cartoons published in the Dominion, 1999, and entered in the 1999 Qantas Media Awards. Quantity: 12 Laser copies. Physical Description: Colour laser copies, A4 size.

Date: 1939-1968

From: Smith, David Stanley (Sir), 1888-1982 : Papers

Reference: Series-1602

Description: This series covering 1939-68, consists of two sub-series. The first contains 53 volumes of Notes on Proceedings, and the second, files containing newspaper clippings, correspondence, and printed material Quantity: 53 volume(s) 15 folders.

Date: 1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-216

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, Mar-Jul 1948. Includes book-binding; Auckland Sunday School Union mobile van (F E Slattery & W E Archer); shepherds and dogs from Lake Pukaki Station; Mount Cook Manual Training Centre, Wellington (Miss Colleen Dreyer, teacher and her pupils); girls of the Hastings Rangers Company who built a meeting-house of rammed earth with their leader Miss Pauline Tyers; Empire Day ball attended by girls from Auckland and Epsom Grammar schools, Diocesan and St Cuthbert's Collge shown dancing the minuet. Official opening of two bottle stores in Masterton by members of the Licensing Trust (includes J C D Mackley, C C Crawford and F Pickering); children in the audience of a Wellington movie theatre and looking at a poster advertising `Swiss Family Robinson'; Rora Street, Te Kuiti; D H S Riddiford making presentation to Mrs Paki (said to be 108) at Castlepoint Centenary celebrations; party of 22 typists from United Kingdom who were employed on two year contract to work in Government offices in Wellington (all named); M Anthony, skipper of New Zealand yacht Rangi with crew members F Lush and T Hammond; New Zealand flier Captain A A Mansfield, Rt Hon W J Jordan and others. Colleen Saunders wih puppies; New Zealand rugby players in London (Ted Ellisson (Dunedin), Ian McKenzie (Auckland), Arch Beadle (Dunedin), Barry Martin (Petone), Noy Reid (Auckland), Jim Hay (Wellington); Lincoln College float at Christchurch with `Millie the million dollar cow'; Handley Page Hastings, Britain's biggest transport plane at Wigram; children at Pointways, a pony club at Pakuranga; George Rush, Jack Hull, Ray Raynor and Tom Chamberlain at Timaru displaying the large number of salmon they caught; The Pinnacles near mouth of Putangirua Stream, Palliser Bay; rugby player Bob Scott; bodies of women who lost their lives in a blizzard in Copland Pass being brought to the Hermitage by guides, Apr 1848; Mrs M E Rogers of Christchurch with large salmon caught by her husband in Waimakariri River; Salvation Army Centennial Conference held in Dunedin (officers all named). Processes related to export of whiskey at a British distillery; Waitaki Boys' High School team at Otago and Southland secondary school athletic championships held in Dunedin; corvettes Arabis and Arbutus leaving Auckland for Britain; small child milking a cow; Women's Section of Christchurch RSA; Stratford Pipe Band at Inglewood United Rugby Football Club Jubilee celebrations; people under hypnosis; New Plymouth Easter Pilots' Camp; Private Muriel Cousins, Whakatane making memorial medal at Trentham Military Camp; tug Tapuhi towing retiring tug Natone to Shelly Bay; launch Ede launched at Kaikoura; first guests at `Scotlands', the Women's Division of Federated Farmers rest-home at Onehunga, Auckland (Mrs W G Graham, Mrs M A Cruickshank, Mrs A E Escott and Mrs A E Bridge) Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1999

By: Southland times (Newspaper); Winter, Mark, 1958-; Qantas Airways Ltd

Reference: H-628-001/012

Description: Cartoons published in the Southland Times, 1999, and a finalist entry in the 1999 Qantas Media Awards (the winner was Malcolm Evans). Quantity: 12 Laser copies. Physical Description: Laser copies, A4 size.