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Date: 1950

By: New Zealand observer (Newspaper); Choate, Francis Desmond, 1916-2001

Reference: J-065-058

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Sid Holland as a knight on horseback carrying the flag of PAYE (pay as you earn) from Wellington to Canterbury. At the top left of the cartoon is a stanza from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - 'A knight ther was and that a worthy man, that fro the tyme he first bigan To ryden out he loved chivalrye, Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye. In al his lyf, unto no manner wight he was a verray parfit gentil Knight' - followed by - 'May Chaucer's Knight now pave the waye, To help Sir Sidnye win the daye... We're al behynd you when you saye "Adopt the Aussye system P.A.Y.E."' Other Titles - The old pay day Extended Title - Mr Holland champions the Australian 'Pay as you earn' system of income tax - news. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 1955

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: E-549-q-08-017

Description: Shows a ship named 'Thermonopolae' at anchor with Prime Minister, Sid Holland, as a figure-head on the prow. A group of housewives wearing Indian feathers in their hair who represent the 'Auckland Housewives Association' throw boxes of '8/- lb Tea' from the ship into the sea. A small boat full of enraged tea merchants wearing nineteenth century coats, breeches and wigs floats helplessly nearby. This is a reminder of the Boston tea party of 1773 which was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor. Refers to a protest at the price of tea? Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping glued to paper, 155x 215 mm

Date: 3 Nov 1955

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1955/2480-F

Description: Photograph taken 3 November 1955 for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - 3 November date from NZ Railway Observer, Volume 12, November-December 1955 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 28 December 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/245/02-G

Description: Prime Minister Sidney Holland and Mrs Holland departing from Evans Bay by flying boat for London. Photographed 28 December 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-015

Description: William Stanley Goosman, Minister of Works, reads from a book entitled 'Prophecy of gloom' in the rather murky light from a bulb representing an 'inadequate power supply'. A man sitting in the near dark asks him to 'get out of my light - Can't you see I'm reading?' A large number of new power stations were built in the 1950s Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 345 x 470 mm

Date: 1952

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-049

Description: Through the window of number 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Sid Holland can be seen shaking hands with British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Outside the front door stands a hopeful pound note. Context - This meeting probably took place during the Commonwealth Ministers Conference in December 1952. Sid Holland is probably trying to ensure good trade and economic relations. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-036

Description: The Prime Minister Sid Holland has just completed a painting of the state of New Zealand's finances - it is entitled 'The financial situation 1950'. Text reads '"It would not be fair to the artist if you did not have a look at the whole picture before commenting on it." - said Mr Nash, referring to Mr Holland's Report on New Zealand's Finances'. Leader of the opposition Labour Party Walter Nash looks at the painting and says 'Hm'm - I painted much the same subject only last year - but in very, very bright colours!' Context - Nash became leader of the Labour Party at the end of 1950 when Peter Fraser died but he had been Finance Minister in the Savage and Fraser ministries from 1935. The economy was becoming sluggish and most Western European countries, as well as several in East Asia, overtook New Zealand in terms of real per capita income. The title 'Modern art' and the words '4 col' appear at the bottom of the cartoon. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue pencil on paper 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-012

Description: Prime Minister Sid Holland stands before a group of representatives of various women's organisations and angrily reprimands 'that lady with the moustache and the familiar voice...' for asking about 'that twelve million quid' again. The 'lady with the moustache' is former Labour PM Walter Nash. The man to Sid Holland's right is probably Jack Watts, who closely followed economic policy. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 340 x 500 mm

Date: 1954

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-038

Description: A group of men dance and clap as an ancient man with '"Gaffer" parliamrnt printed on his vest skips under the joined hands of PM Sid Holland and leader of the opposition Walter Nash. Above them are decorations that include a placard bearing the words 'Happy "100th" Gran'dad'. Context - the celebrations marking the one hundredth anniversary of the first meeting of parliament in May 1854. The first colonial secretary was Andrew Sinclair. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is text reading 'What a constitution!' and '3 col Today Monday 24th May '54'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pastel on paper, 390 x 560 mm

Date: 1949 - 1952

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-009

Description: The scene is the cartoonist's desk on which a telephone with its receiver off the hook rings and the cartoonist makes ink spots with his brush - the inkspots become small silhouettes of from left; Walter Nash, leader of the Labour opposition, Sid Holland, Prime Minister, William Sullivan, Minister of Labour, Ronald Algie, Minister of Education, and Keith Holyoake Minister of Agriculture and marketing. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper 370 x 440 mm

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-014

Description: Prime Minister Sid Holland smiles broadly as he reads a document that says 'M.P.s' wage increase approved'. He is followed by a crowd of working men led by Fintan Patrick Walsh, President of the Federation of Labour who has 'F.O.L.' printed on his jacket and who holds a document entitled 'General wage claim'. Context - Probably the beginning of the wage dispute that resulted ultimately in the 1951 watersiders' strike. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 320 x 450 mm

Date: 1949 - 1951

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-043

Description: The cartoon shows gigantic waves interspersed with question marks that are bearing down on a flimsy raft on which is standing PM Sid Holland and a terrified chicken resembling Education Minister Ronald Algie. Possibly refers to the waterfront strike in 1951 At bottom of cartoon in pencil is text reading '3 col today L. News'.'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and Chinese white on paper, 380 x 560 mm

Date: August 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177289-F

Description: Lord and lady Norrie being farewelled by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sid Holland and his wife Florence, at Paraparaumu Airport prior to theier departure from New Zealand. Photograph taken in August 1957 by Morrie Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 28 December 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/245/03-G

Description: Prime Minister Sidney Holland departing from Evans Bay by flying boat for London. Photographed 28 December 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: ca 1949 - 1957

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-6203-05

Description: White heron (also known as Egretta Alba or Kotuku) pictured in native bush at Okarito, South Westland. Taken by unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads: "White Heron (Egretta alba) at Okarito, South Westland. Called Kotuku in Maori. Tradition says it appears only once in a human lifetime, hence in national affairs it figures only in events of unique importance. From Christmas card, sent by P M Holland." Sir Sidney George Holland was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1949 to 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1950

From: British Empire Games, Auckland, New Zealand, 1950 :[Official programmes for events. 1950]

Reference: Eph-A-SPORT-1950-05-04/05

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Sid Holland the Prime Minister, and a page of text on the right. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (on pages of programme). Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithograph, 207 x 270 mm.

Date: 1954

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-023

Description: Leader of the Labour Party Walter Nash and Prime Minister Sid Holland peer with torches into the darkness of the Waitomo Caves. Scattered among the stalactites and stalagmites appear the words 'wages', 'police', 'prices', Antarctica', 'budget', 'housing', 'SEATO', and 'railways'. Walter Nash's torch picks out a grinning elf sitting on a toadstool. Context - probably just before the 1954 election, won by the National Party but in which Social Credit won 11% of the total vote. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil and Chinese white on paper 380 x 480 mm

Date: 1949 - 1951

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-042

Description: The cartoon is composed of five cameos; reading anti-clockwise the first has text reading 'featuring such artists as Fred (Spike) Jones and his City Boot-Clickers' and shows the 'Spike Jones' (American?) band playing. The second has text that reads 'Bob Semple in a humourous recitation "They wouldn't let me broadcast that!"' and shows Bob Semple former trade unionist and MP in the first Labour government, yelling into a microphone. The third has the text 'And Fred Doidge swooning about "UNO I love you"' and shows Fred Doidge (Minister for Foreign Affairs and thus involved with the United Nations Organisation) singing into a microphone labelled 'NBC' (National Broadcasting Corporation). The fourth shows Sir Walter Nash, leader of the Labour opposition, holding a microphone and raising his hat accompanied by the text 'And Walter Nash, in his "Tax it from here" programme (They're very prahd of Wal back in the buildings)! The fifth and last has text reading 'Sid Holland and his search for "talent" requesting John Public to "Put another mickle in -" and shows PM Sid Holland with a large radio in the background with the words 'What's DUE box' above it exhorting a cross-looking man to pay more. Context - Sid Holland appears to be promoting the idea of more local talent on the national radio. Spike Jones and his City Slickers were an American jazz band. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is text reading '4 1/2 col'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1949 - 1954

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-010

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister Sid Holland leaping from his chair in disbelief as a fortune teller tells him that he 'can expect a decrease in salary'. Text above reads 'Members of M.P.s Salary Commission appointed - News'. The title 'The joker' appears in pencil below the cartoon. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 380 x 480 mm

Date: 1955

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1955/2477-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches