For men alone, life in colonial New Zealand was often rough and makeshift. They made the best of it, gathering together to socialise. This group is drinking in a ‘canvas grog shop’ in 1862 at the Kyeburn goldfield in Central Otago. The Otago goldfields had about 700 sly-grog shanties, around one to every 75 inhabitants.
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