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Date: 1925

By: Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: J-065-035

Description: A farmer has put up a notice in a field 'Britons wanted - only good workers need apply'. Another sign reads 'Beware of the dog', and the farmer's dog is wearing a label 'Restrictions on aliens policy'. Extended Title - Britons wanted. Only good workers need apply. By order, N.Z. Young New Zealand - 'That notice ought to make it clear. Of course, we want Britons, but we don't want stunted townsfolk, spoiled by the dole. We want men and women who will take up a farming life. We want thousands more stout hearts and willing hands, country producers, not little citified people. We want Britain's best; not her leavings.' Beware of the dog. Restrictions on aliens policy. News item - Ninety-eight per cent of New Zealand's population is of British stock, and it is vitally important that this desirable condition should continue. But the Australian High Commissioner lately complained that the immigrants from the English cities were often unsuitable; they were spoiled by crowded urban life. Lord Jellicoe has announced that he will devote himself to helping the class of emigrant who is willing to work on the land. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy from newspaper (engraving)

Date: 1930

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).

By: Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: A-313-1-041

Description: John Bull (Great Britain) has his arm around a dairy maid (Denmark) and is handing her a 'butter cheque 140 shillings per c.w.t.' [hundredweight]. She says 'I like you, John, but I like your butter cheques better.' On his other side a younger, prettier, dairy maid is offering him the 'world's best butter' at 112 shillings per c.w.t. and protesting 'Say, Dad, don't be so fresh with her. You have your own daughters to consider.' Under the Imperial Preference scheme New Zealand's dairy produce should have had an advantage in the British marketplace, but the British consumers preferred to buy the Danish product. Extended Title - The comparative prices of Danish and New Zealand butter constitute an object lesson in Empire preference as it should not be. The advice to 'Buy British Goods' is not being practised in the land in which the slogan originated, for Danish butter is preferred at threepence a pound above New Zealand butter. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A5 size bromide from newspaper.

Date: 1930 - 1931

By: Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951; New Zealand observer and free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: J-044-006

Description: A small boy representing the "New Year" calls out encouragement to the men rowing the boat called "Good Hope". The men represent farmers, the Government, workers and employers. They navigate through the rocks, one of which is called "Rocks of Failure". Exhibited in 'The Line-Up' exhibition of 36 cartoons by 36 cartoonists curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library auditorium foyer from 5 April 2002 to mark the tenth anniversary of establishment of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive. Extended Title - "Now all take your coats off and pull together, and we'll make a good trip of it." 'CAS'(?). "New Year". 'Farmer'. Government'. 'Worker'. 'Manufacturers'. 'Ginger pop'. 'Good Hope'. 'Rocks of Failure.' Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies photocopy from a bromide.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy from a bromide.