Case 2 - Contemporary Temperance Periodicals 1

The prohibitionist and direct veto advocate. Dunedin edition. Christchurch: T.E. Fraser, Sept. 23, 1893.

The prohibitionist and direct veto advocate. Dunedin edition. Christchurch: T.E. Fraser, Sept. 23, 1893.

The prohibitionist and direct veto advocate was a Christchurch-based periodical founded by Thomas Taylor and Leonard Isitt of the Sydenham Prohibition League.

The prohibitionist regularly featured a page edited by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. This women’s page was inaugurated by Kate Sheppard, who wrote under the pen-name ‘Penelope.’

This Dunedin edition is open at the W.C.T.U. page of the issue immediately following the granting of women’s suffrage on 19 September 1893.

The prohibitionist and direct veto advocate. Dunedin edition. Christchurch: T.E. Fraser, Sept. 23, 1893.

The prohibitionist and direct veto advocate. Dunedin edition. Christchurch: T.E. Fraser, Sept. 23, 1893.
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