Skilled labour

Date: 10 April 1969

From: Skinner, Thomas Edward (Sir), 1909-1991: Cartoons collected by Sir Thomas Skinner

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: C-179-057

Description: Tom Shand and Tom Skinner sit on a cliff each playing a tom-tom drum. Skinner says "Keep out!" and Shand says "Come in!" to a man, woman, and child. The man is carrying a tool box and he is labelled "British skilled worker". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil on paper, 390 x 485 mm.

Date: 1969

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-909

Description: Sirens in the form of pop musicians playing lyres and labelled U.S.A., U.K. and Australia, sit on some rocks singing 'Higher wages, Fairer taxation, More incentive.' Men are jumping overboard to swim towards them from a ship called Let 'em go (formerly Argo). Muldoon (Ulysses) holds a golden fleece labelled high tax rate, while Holyoake steers the ship. Lodge notes that those who know he has mixed two myths will appreciate getting two for one. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, Chinese white, black and yellow letratone, crayon and pencil, 261 x 523 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1977

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning industry and industrial relations. Published in the Auckland star, 1977-1984].

Reference: A-334-015

Description: One man says to another about the numbers of people leaving the country (the paper he holds says 19,072 left NZ last year), that the time is great to set up a suitcase industry - 'if only you could find the workforce to make 'em.' Published in the Auckland star, Saturday weekender. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, Chinese white on card, 189 x 250 mm Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1969

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-889

Description: A large building site has a sign on the fence, Site of New Zealand Industrial Building, Architects Holyoake Marshall Muldoon and Co., Contractors Hightax Structure Group. Another sign says Skilled labour urgently wanted. The foreman, Tom Shand (Minister of Labour), stands in the doorway of the foreman's office, as skilled workers are kicked off the site (No incentive) heading for Australia. Mr Shand's comments form the caption. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, Chinese white, black and yellow letratone, crayon and pencil, 293 x 455 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1979

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-525

Description: There are 3 scenes in this cartoon. In the first one man is saying to the other man that there's no need to worry because the workers who are leaving are mostly factory workers, drivers or labourers. The other responds that someone has to do their jobs. In the second scene the first man points out the advantages of less population: less redundancy, unemployed, demands on social welfare, demands for housing and imports, and spending of overseas funds. In the third as he hands a pick to the other man, who is carrying a brief case labelled skilled worker, he extolls the other advantage as being 'revival of the good old kiwi spirit of do-it-yourself!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 320 x 435 mm

Date: 1971

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-182

Description: An attached clipping reports that Eddie Isbey, Labour M.P. for Grey Lynn, was speaking at a seminar on immigration policy, and said that it was a pipe dream to talk about massive immigration programmes, when the skills required were in short supply throughout the world. Lodge shows himself at his drawing board, saying that Isbey is right, and works himself into a lather, claiming that 'We must all work at all times to produce all we can!' The last scene shows him stretched exhausted on his board - 'When the weather's cooler - that is.' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and pencil, 285 x 395 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2004

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0004695

Description: Shows a badly assembled locomotive train sitting on railway tracks with two men looking at it. One of the men is from Toll New Zealand and is shocked at the bad assembly. The other man is from the union and tells Toll New Zealand "Get my drift?". Refers to Toll New Zealand's decision to assemble locomotive trains locally and the rail unions doubts whether there was enough skilled workers to do such a job. Published in New Zealand Shipping Gazette Arrangement: This cartoon file was orginally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'NZ Shipping Gaz', which was inside a folder called 'AWS Cartoon Highlights, Nov'04-May'07' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).