Arthur Toombes scrapbook regarding the 1928 Campaign Against Prohibition

MLMSS 10982/Box 1X

fonds

approximately 1928

Textual Records, Posters, Ephemera, Graphic Materials

9659343

0.36 metres of textual material (1 outsize box ) - typescript, ink, colour lithograph - 26 x 56 cm

Arthur Toombes (1884-1939) was born in Rockhampton, Queensland. He was the appointed organiser of the New South Wales Temperance Alliance, Newcastle branch, 1906. He organised the no-licence campaign in New South Wales in the St George electorate, 1910, and Goulburn electorate, 1913. He then became Temperance organiser of the Northern Rivers districts of New South Wales. Toombes was the grand secretary of the New South Wales Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars and federal organiser of the Australian Temperance Council in Melbourne. He became the state superintendent of the Strength of Empire Movement, which later became the Queensland Temperance League. He was appointed national secretary of the Australian Temperance Council, 1938. Toombes collapsed at a Queensland Temperance League meeting and died a few hours later at a private hospital on 12 December, 1939.

The Liquor Trade Defence Union of New South Wales was established in January 1907 with the purpose of merging numerous trades with the common objective of protecting freedoms and lobbying against liquor prohibition legislation.

A poll was held in NSW on 1 September 1928 on the question of whether prohibition with compensation should come into force throughout the state. The result was that prohibition was overwhelmingly defeated.

Reference:
Barrier Miner. 3 September 1928. "Liquor referendum prohibition overwhelmingly beaten at the state poll on Saturday". Accessed 1 November 2021. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46032077
Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser. 13 December 1939. "Mr. Arther Toombes dead". Accessed 20 October 2021. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151189173
Wellington Times. 1907, 10 January. "A manifesto". Accessed 11 November 2021. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141598031

Passed down from Arthur Toombes to the various predecessor organisations of Drug ARM

Scrapbook compilation of anti-prohibitionist advertising material and ephemera created for the Campaign against Prohibition in the leadup to the 1928 NSW Liquor Referendum. Includes correspondence from the Liquor Trades Defence Union of New South Wales, July-August 1928; 71 advertisement prints, 112 posters and "Campaign against Prohibtion" series booklets, published by the Liquor Trades Defence Union of New South Wales; pasted and loose multisheet, black and white, and colour posters. Canvasser record logboook and report sheet samples and "Cheerio" serial publications, 1 June, 6 July, 25 July, 25 August, 1928.

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