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Date: 1987

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].

Reference: B-145-072

Description: The cartoon shows Avondale Racecourse (Auckland) after a session of night trots, with all the lights blazing but with only a single jockey on horseback coming round the track. A punter or trainer is walking out a door on the right, reminding the jockey to turn out the lights. Refers to the shaky financial position of the racecourse, at the time and possibly to extravagant management, with a barrage of lights for the sake of one rider. Avondale Racecourse was nearly wound up but was bailed out. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 379 x 520 mm

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: 1983 - 1985

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-144-586/603

Description: Includes cartoons about: Giant sheep proposed for New Zealand; Rob Muldoon between the devil and the EEC (French as neutron bomb testers and as potential butter export markets); Deputy PM Duncan McIntyre makes no comment about the saga of the Russian research ship; New Zealand has to compete with Australia for kiwifruit exports; NZ butter dumped in the EEC; Australian redback spiders and CER (Closer Economic Relations); sheep forced to become a pavement artist to support New Zealand; Prime Minister Muldoon meets President Mitterand with NZ's butter problems behind his back; kiwifruit exports soar; New Zealand dairy exports to the USA threatened by break with ANZUS; barber hanged for using wide comb; Mike Moore going overboard with his lamb promotions; New Zealand and Australia having a beer trade war; sheep on the dole; alarmist Jim McLay believes the Chinese, Russians, Australians, and Eskimoes are coming; Russian submarine brings Soviet fishing crews into Wellington Harbour; cruelty on live transportation of sheep; lamb beheaded for services to New Zealand. 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: 18 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1985

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].

Reference: B-144-125

Description: The cartoon shows an All Black rugby player on the left and a protestor on the right. They are both leaning into the middle where they are crushing a policeman who is half their size. Refers to public opinion over the 1985 rugby tour to South Africa. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 520 x 390 mm.

Date: 1990

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].

Reference: B-144-153

Description: The cartoon is a changed version of an artwork by John Millais. It shows a man, representing a U.K. league scout, pointing across the ocean to another land that has a flag saying league and a shining pot with a $ sign on it. Two All Black rugby players are sitting listening to him speak, both look very happy at the prospect of gaining a lot of money. In the foreground is a battered rugby ball, representing rugby union, and a small set of goal posts with cobwebs all over them. Refers to the proffesional game of rugby league and players from the non-proffesional game of rugby union being enticed to switch codes by large sums of money. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 405 x 310 mm.

Date: 1981

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].

Reference: B-145-223

Description: Shows a hypothetical cross-section through the Wellington Airport, showing underground and above-ground operations. Huge conveyor belts on the surface of the runway, generate electricity using the speed of the jumbo jets landing on them, to drive underground turbines. The relative positions of Evans Bay and Lyall Bay are shown. Published in the Dominion on 2 January 1981. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Copyright] Heath (Robinson) 1981 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 356 x 470 mm.

Date: 1989

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].

Reference: B-144-151

Description: The cartoon shows four members of the All Blacks standing outside a house in Wales just across the road from the Stradey Park Hotel. An elderly Welsh lady has answered the door and is calling out to her husband. Refers to the 1989 All Black tour of Great Britain. Exhibited in 'Guts and Glory' an exhibition of rugby cartoons, organised by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive Trust in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, at the National Library Gallery, 15 July - 7 November 1999, and then touring until 2001. Curated by Susan Foster. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, brush and ink, white paint, 400 x 315mm.

Date: 1979

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].

Reference: B-144-573

Description: New Zealand, enamoured by a sexy Australia, is swallowed up by her. Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003. Published in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' by Ian F. Grant, published by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive in association with Tandem Press, 2001. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, image 360 x 443 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1987

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].

Reference: B-144-062

Description: Shows the marine ecologist Jacques Cousteau in a wetsuit and rubber dinghy, reconnoitring in Wellington Harbour from his boat the "Calypso", while a concerned member of the public looks on from the shore. Dated by date of appearance in the "Dominion". Inscriptions: Recto - Signed Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, image 245 x 327 mm, on paper 385 x 520 mm.

Date: 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].

Reference: B-144-160

Description: The cartoon shows a giant South African rugby player towering above the All Blacks team and the goalposts on the field. Refers to steroid use in rugby. Exhibited in 'Guts and Glory' an exhibition of rugby cartoons, organised by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive Trust in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, at the National Library Gallery, 15 July - 7 November 1999, and then touring until 2001. Curated by Susan Foster. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink and latratone, 425 x 265mm.

Date: 1981

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].

Reference: B-145-229

Description: Shows Wellington airport terminal in a dilapidated state, and with a lean-to tacked on the end for the Skybus Airline. Published in the Dominion on 3 November 1981. Other Titles - Boy! Would you show these gentlemen to the Skybus departure lounge? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signature] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 341 x 480 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1981

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].

Reference: B-144-750

Description: Shows four scenes from the Ashburton sheep dog trials, attended by Queen Elizabeth II. The British press are chased by dogs. Appeared in the "Dominion" on 14 October 1981. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 280 x 400 mm.

Date: 1969 - 1971

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].

Reference: B-144-218

Description: Shows a dripping raised hand rising from the waters of a lake, with mountains in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Eric Heath Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, 220 x 270 mm on paper, 335 x 390 mm.