The Scottish Contribution to New Zealand Beer: Exporters, Brewers and Anti-Prohibitionists.

As counter to the narrow focus of a number of New Zealand historians on the prohibitionist activities of the Presbyterian Church, this article examines three significant Scottish contributions to the history of beer and brewing in New Zealand prior to 1940. These are: the reasons for and the nature of the disproportionate Scottish contribution to the export of British beer to New Zealand from the 1860s; the influence of leading Scottish-trained brewers such as Robert Whitson of Auckland and William Dawson of Dunedin; and links in the cause of anti-prohibition between the National Council of the Licensed Trade of New Zealand and the Edinburgh-based Anti-Prohibition Campaign Council. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]