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News. The Auckland harbour master wants a new way of measuring the depth of sea over th...
Date: 2004
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0004187
Description: Shows the Manukau Harbour bar marked by a buoy with a skull and crossbones on a flag. In the distance is ship that has been wrecked on the bar. In the foreground is a ship on which the harbour master is preparing his new method of measuring the depth of the sea over the bar. He is tying rope around one of the feet of a man who clutches a flag in his raised right hand and two bricks with his other hand. The man cheerfully asks the harbour what happens next. Clearly he is about to be thrown overboard and will sink to the bottom of the sea bearing his little flag aloft thereby showing the depth of the bar. Published in Shipping Gazette Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'SG' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).