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Date: 1990

From: Heath, Eric, 1923- :Cartoons from the `Daily Smile' exhibition (1994-1996). [1970-1992].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-143-021

Description: A grinning Khandallah Boy Scout with a lemon-squeezer hat pulled down over his eyes, salutes. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 275 x 365mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1977 - 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-954/963

Description: Includes cartoons about: Camping equipment salesman closing his blinds so that customers think the weather is sunny; Jupiter reads that MPs want churches to pray for rain in Wairarapa; rain means Santa Claus travels by raft; Meteorological Office having trouble with predicted southerly storms; little weather house has lost its woman figure; Santa Claus dresses in accordance with the weather forecast - heavy clothing even for Southern Hemisphere; New Zealanders may call on an Australian rainmaker to end the drought; praying for rain; tourist asks for a one-way ticket to anywhere away from rainy New Zealand; only those who got books for Christmas can make use of their gifts - sailboats, fishing rods, sun umbrellas are useless. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Quantity: 10 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 390 x 510 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1973 - 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: C-133-010/040

Description: Includes cartoons about: Chinese nuclear weapons testing; Trawlermen blockading Wellington and Auckland harbours; Air New Zealand air fares; Cost cutting at hospitals; Fumigation because of a cockroach problem at Hutt Hospital elderly ward; Pollution in Wellington harbour and nuclear weapons testing at Mururoa; Wharfies knock off because of dead rat found in the hull of a ship; Air New Zealand passengers bypassing customs; Port hold up as 400 used cars are steam cleaned; New Zealand medical council; Railway fares rise by 10%; Industrial disruption from railway workers; Condemned railway carriages being demolished; Wellington airport runway; Gambling to see what will come first, an eruption of Mt. Egmont or a nuclear weapon being used in warfare; Doctor's going on strike; Bikies ruling the roads; Bus and train fares rising; Housing; Do it yourself medical treatment; Railway workers asked to report on their workmates to reduce pillaging; Australia to build four frigates for New Zealand; New Zealanders buy 3 Frances Hodgkins fakes; Defence cost cutting; Public health; Rio 1992. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, various sizes.

Date: 1986 - 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-604/635

Description: Includes cartoons about: David Lange proposes better relations with Australia; the French torture the New Zealand kiwi; concorde pilot asked to ship live sheep; wealthy American businessmen try a deal with desperate Hawkes Bay farmers; the French ask David Lange to release the Rainbow Warrior saboteurs; Australians upset by New Zealand's winning a carpetting contract in Canberra; Lange savaged during attempts to trade butter with the EEC "club"; USA President Ronald Reagan takes Australian PM Bob Hawke away from "this nasty area" of New Zealand; USA gets tough with New Zealand; New Zealand's trade threatened by split with ANZUS; troubled trade relations with Libya,Iran, EEC, USA; Fijian Indians want to migrate to New Zealand; Australia threatens trade cuts for non-participation in ANZUS; Kiwifruit for the Ayatollah (Khomeini of Iran); Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen loses popularity; Kiwi expatriates laze in the Queensland sun drinking beer; the snake of CER (Australian Closer Economic Relations); David Lange asks Bob Hawke for the boat "Akarana" back; new "Asian" city for Helensville; MP Marshall to consider tougher measures with China if necessary; no political asylum in New Zealand for Fiji Indian; huge power plant for North Island planned using Australian coal; French MP Michel Rocard promises to try and help New Zealand trade in the EEC; Chinese immigrants arrive; 100,000 live sheep leave for the Persian Gulf countries; Jim Bolger goes to Baghdad with a feather in his cap; Foreign Affairs Minister Don McKinnon is keen on new links with the USA; US President George Bush allocates Jim Bolger two minutes' conversation in the men's toilets; Jim Bolger visites British PM John Major; Bill Birch announces that migrants are essential; Jim Bolger and Don McKinnon are successful in getting New Zealand a place on the UN Security Council; US President Bill Clinton likes New Zealand green-lipped mussels. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 32 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1988 - 1993

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-243/265

Description: Includes cartoons on: The destructive effect of aerosol sprays; non-smoking legislation; the greenhouse effect; protesting against environmental hazards and Waihopai (satellite tracking station); French nuclear testers rewarded with a contract for air traffic control system; rubbish piling up on route to Mt Everest; ozone and aerosols; Russell Marshall attends talks to prevent spread of chemical weapons; whales killed both by harpooning or by chemical waste pollution; poisoning of oysters; Antarctica made into a fun park; fishing nets and water pollution are hazards for fish; the destruction of the world and the return of prehistoric creatures; an earthquake destroys New Zealand where all the world's information had been stored for safekeeping; methane gas and milk dumping; the ozone layer; dumping of nerve gas at Johnston Island; the sick world in a hospital bed; the South Sea paradise polluted; the day the world fell through the ozone hole and blew up; vultures follow the Akatsuki Maru (plutonium-carrying ship); a meteorite slams into a plutonium-carrying ship. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those not found in the albums have been given estimated dates. Quantity: 23 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 350 x 540 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1990

From: Various artists :[Collection of cartoon clippings, of works by Eric Heath, Nevile Lodge, Gordon Minhinnick, Neville Colvin, Les Gibbard. 1950-1980s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: A-311-4-026

Description: A boy scout, grinning, under the influence of cannabis, gives the boy scout salute. Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping.. Physical Description: Newspaper cutting, 150 x 185 mm.

Date: 1989 - 1993

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-145-013/043

Description: Includes cartoons about: Boat paints cause sex changes in shellfish; dogs have a bad reputation for violence; detention of boy for damaging cat with fireworks; Japan to kill 300 whales for research only; 10,000 Berlin Wall guard dogs become redundant; giant weta on Mana Island; women smuggle tortoises out of the Zoo as hats; wildlife smuugler sells birds cheap; kea smuggler keeps his just deserts; seal slaughter for dog food; rottweiler owners; an attempt at sheep mating; sharks being caught for soup; Takapau Meat Works employee and sheep; National Animal Week; ants eating Wellington Airport; termite infestation in Seatoun lamp-post; the hare and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle; importation of exotic species; myxomatosis for rabbits; Spanish flu virus for rabbits; ancient King Kong at the Empire State Building; pitbulls banned in the United Kingdom; monkeys catch cold at Auckland Zoo; Chatham Islands albatrosses; Army hunting killer dog; whales find divers chewy; last alpacas leaves Somes Island; saving sheep from the snow, for the freezing works; black stilts on drying lakes; laws covering dogs. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.