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Pub liberations

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Pub liberations

Women walk into Wellington's New City Hotel lunch bar in 1970, in protest against its 'men only' sign (although there was no suggestion that anything more exciting than a counter lunch was on offer). In the early years of the women's liberation movement, women undertook a number of 'pub liberations' of men-only bars.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1970/3763/8

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Megan Cook, Women’s movement – The women’s liberation movement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27909/pub-liberations (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 7 April 2011.