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Date: 1953

From: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :[Twenty-eight (28) original cartoons, 1940s and 1950s].

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

Reference: C-132-887

Description: Shows Sir John Allum, the Mayor of Auckland giving advice to a suicidal man, seated in a chair with a noose around his neck. He has already tried a gun, arsenic, prussic acid, and a razor. The reason for his dejection is a telegramme from Prime Minister Holland, rejecting a request for a loan for building the Auckland Harbour Bridge. At the top left is stuck a clipping from the Evening Post, 21 March 1953, page 10. Other Titles - No loan money for Auckland's bridge Inscriptions: Recto - top left - This cartoon was rejected by the Editor on the grounds that he did not think that the Evening Post should help contribute to the increase in the suicide rate in N.Z. - N.M.C. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon drawing, on sheet 290 x 434 mm.

Date: 1954

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

Reference: C-184-052

Description: The cartoon shows a cricket team standing in front of a scoreboard on which is printed the names and number of years served by the cricketers who are, in fact, MPs - they are from left, Thomas Webb, Labour, who retired after 11 years; Alfred Murdoch, National 21 years; Walter Broadfoot, National 26 years; Paddy Kearins, Labour 'retired hurt' 8 years; Robert McKeen, Labour 32 years; Charles Chapman, Labour 26 years; Bob Semple, Labour 27 years; Charles Bowden, National 11 years; Andrew Sutherland, National 12 years; Edward Gordon, National 16 years; William Bodkin, National 26 years.. The board is headed 'M.P. Old Boys - innings declared closed'. Context - The 1954 general election and the MPs, both Labour and National who retired from politics at that point. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, Chinese white and blue pencil on paper glued to card, 445 x 625 mm

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-104-059

Description: The cartoon shows a rugby game in progress. One team, wearing striped jerseys is using one of their players as a battering ram and have broken up the opposition's scrum by this method. One of the team shouts "Boy, this has the African scrum licked by a mile!" Context unknown. Attached to the top right corner is a slip of paper printed with the words '"The Evening Post" April 15.....1950' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card 535 x 350 mm

Date: 1947

From: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :[Twenty-eight (28) original cartoons, 1940s and 1950s].

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

Reference: C-132-871

Description: Shows three marathon runners, running past a milestone which reads "Masterton 1 mile". The central runner, Fred Clueless, carries a beer mug where the others carry batons. Date verified by reference to issue of the Sports Post. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, charcoal and Chinese white, on sheet 549 x 373 mm.

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-059

Description: The Wellington rugby team are using one of their team-mates as a battering ram which has the effect of sending the opposing team-members flying in all directions. One of the players yells "Boy, this has the African scrum licked by a mile!" Content - specific event unknown but the South Africans had a reputation for being huge and tough, hence the need for the novel approach. Relates back to 1949 when the Springboks won ten matches in a row against New Zealand on their 1949 tour to South Africa. A slip of paper is glued to top left - it reads '"The Evening Post" April 15 1950'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 535 x 350 mm

Date: 1946

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-064

Description: Shows a rather mournful but very attractive young woman dressed in her tennis clothes and bathing her sore feet in a bowl of water into which she has mixed 'meths' and 'foot powder' from the bottles on the floor beside her. Includes the words 'foot faults'. This cartoon is the front cover of the 'Sports Post' dated 'September 28 1946'. Inscriptions: Recto - Neville Colvin Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and Chinese white on buff paper pasted to card, 495 x 330 mm

Date: 1952

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-063

Description: A wrestler manages to tie his opponent in knots in the ropes running round the wrestling ring; he is assisted by a sailor in the audience who demonstrates a reef knot for him. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on card, 500 x 320mm

Date: 1946

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-062

Description: A young man in striped pyjamas sits up smiling in bed holding a trowel that he has just unwrapped from its gift paper. Attached to the trowel is a label with a note that reads 'With love from Mum. NOW get cracking.' Context unknown. This cartoon is the front page of the 'Sports Post' dated August 31 1946... Wellington. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and Chinese white on buff paper pasted to card 530 x 345 mm

Date: 1946

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-065

Description: Shows the back view of a rather plump golfer wearing plus fours and a fairisle jumper and carrying a golf caddy over his shoulder. To his left is a notice that reads 'To the first tee' and the title 'No confidence!' appears on the lower right corner. This cartoon is probably the front cover of the 'Sports Post' but although there is a space drawn for the title and date of the newspaper there is no title or date. Possibly 1946 as it is with several other front covers dated 1946. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - Neville Colvin; centre left - Neville Colvin Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and Chinese white on buff paper pasted to card 480 x 310 mm

Date: 1946 - 1948

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-054

Description: Jock Barnes, President of the New Zealand Waterside Workers Union, and Minister of Labour, Angus McLagan, are having a furious fight and have turned the prime minister's office upside-down. Prime Minister, Peter Fraser, has grabbed the phone and now says 'Hello, is that Count Folke Bernadotte...' Context - A clash between the more radical Barnes and Angus McLagan. McLagan clashed with unions who challenged the government's economic programme between 1946 and 1949 and came to see the hand of international communism in union opposition to the stabilisation policies of the war years and after. Count Folke Bernadotte was a United Nations peace negotiator, noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1947-1948. Below the cartoon is the title in pencil 'Hello, is that Count Folke Bernadotte'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue pencil on paper 355 x 535 mm

Date: 1946 - 1956

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-053

Description: A double hulled canoe with patched sails carries women to New Zealand. They are very keen to reach 'The land of the long low tweet-towoooo'. The leader takes an heroic stance as she points to the land and shouts 'Look girls! - MEN!!!' Several of the others are reading love stories. At bottom right are the words in brackets '(After C.F. Goldie's famous painting)'. Context - More than 125,000 migrants settled here during the 50s, the vast majority of them British and many of them single women. The painting that this cartoon alludes to is Charles Goldie and Louis Steele's 'The arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand'. Below the cartoon is the title in pencil 'Marry-land' and the text (line block) 4 col Saturday leader page. Other Titles - Maoriland Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and Chinese white on paper 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1946 - 1956

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-055

Description: Text at the top reads 'Fashion "spotters" with photographers will be conducting a fashion quest next week - ' A very elegant woman smokes in the rear seat of a long and elegant car. A fashion spotter tells her accompanying photographer that she 'says she won't be photographed without the car - it's part of her ensemble!' Context - A fashion quest in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Below the cartoon is the title in pencil 'She says she won't be photographed without the car - it's part of the ensemble!' Also text reading '3 col LINE Wed. Leader P.' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1946 - 1956

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-056

Description: The title is 'The dinkum horries'. The word 'hori' was a derogatory term used to describe Maori. The scene is a Maori pa inside a fence, perhaps in Rotorua, as there are mud pools. There are two 'No Smoking' signs stuck in the ground as well as a 'Smoking tapu' sign stuck to the fence and a 'Non smoking fumerole' sign deside a small fumarole with a bung in its vent. A party of Pakeha visitors run for their lives but not before a young woman is trussed and carried off, while another woman is trussed and being salted in a mud pool by a Maori woman smoking a 'dinkum Maori pipe' and a man is being boiled in a 'genuine pot circa 1826'. Two other signs read 'Smoking tapu' and 'Johnny Waka spirits born 1820'. Context - appears to relate to a Maori reputation for smoking and drinking and (former) cannibalism Below the cartoon is the title in pencil 'The dinkum horries' and the words '4 col B.P. today'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1951

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-057

Description: A man representing the 'wharfies' plays the 'Direct Action March' on a huge horn. In front of him the rest of the band who represent 'The other unions' have torn up their music and try to quieten him down as they turn their backs on him, while behind him another player tears his 'Direct Action march' in two. The title is 'Banned music' (wordplay on 'banned' and 'band'). Context - In 1950 the union movement split and the militants (mainly wharves, mines and state-owned railway workshops) walked out of the Federation of Labour conference to form the Trade Union Congress. The Watersiders, in particular, had built a radically democratic union sub-culture and felt confident enough to risk a confrontation with the state itself. Anxious to strangle this infant TUC Hercules in its cradle, the shipping companies, backed by the National Party, provoked a confrontation with the watersiders. Within days 20,000 workers belonging to the TUC were either locked out or striking in solidarity. This cartoon is about the 1951 Waterfront Strike (or lock-out, depending on your point-of-view). The 'wharfies' were the Waterside workers led by Jock Barnes and Toby Hill, (the musician is probably Jock Barnes) who in the cartoon are taking 'direct action' while the 'other unions', those which remained with the Federation of Labour, turn their backs and take a more conservative stance. (Notes from Chris Trotter 'Class collisions in NZ: 1913, 1951, 1991' from 'Solidarity Library' - Sunday, August 27, 2006). Below the cartoon is the title in pencil 'Banned music' and the words '3 col Tuesday 3rd April'. Other Titles - Band Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 405 x 560 mm

Date: 1946 - 1956

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-058

Description: A very attractive female police officer pulls on her gloves as she prepares to mount her motor-bike. A gleeful man gets back into his car which has been pulled over by the police officer and tells his passenger 'Sure, she gave me a ticket - and her phone number!' Context - The appointment of the first female traffic officers in New Zealand. The words 'A fair cop' are a wordplay on 'cop' as in police officer and 'cop' as in to catch Below the cartoon is the title in pencil 'A fair cop' and the words '3 col Late News Today'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 365 x 560 mm

Date: 1951

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-060

Description: The scene is a wrestling match between two opponents who are not well-matched in terms of size. The smaller wrestler struggles to pull the foot off the bigger one who lounges with a cigarette in his hand looking rather bored. There is a growl 'GRRR!' bottom right. Context unknown. This cartoon is the front page of the 'Sports Post'. The words 'Wellington' and 'May 19' can be seen but not the year. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and Chinese white on buff card, 510 x 345 mm

Date: 1949

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

Reference: A-317-063

Description: The cartoon shows a man in his pyjamas, who has got up in the middle of the night to listen to 1st test of the 1949 tour to South Africa. A burglar who has been robbing the man's house has stopped what he's been doing and is secretly listening to the rugby match as well. Refers to the 1st test against the Springboks on the 1949 tour. 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 laser copy. Physical Description: Laser copy, A4 size.

Date: 1952

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-007

Description: Shows Ronald Algie depicted on a mock diploma which has been awarded him 'to certify that having completed my course of P.P., D.D.T. and T.N.T. and having survived one session of parliamentary strife is hereby passed fit for public life'. In the first National government after its election in 1949 he was Minister of Education - hence this certificate which has a motto 'To be as hard as an Education Board'. The diploma has a rosette drawn at the bottom right which is signed 'S.W.A.L.K.' (signed with a loving kiss'. Pencilled text below the cartoon reads 'Warrent of fitness'. The cartoon was triggered by a newspaper article reproduced on the left, (n.b. only a torn scrap of the article remains glued to the original) headed 'Public life is no place for the supersensitive' and continues with quotes from Algie acknowledging the amount of verbal sparring that occurs in Parliament. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 255 x 395 mm

Date: 1949

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-017

Description: The cartoon is a series of cameos featuring politicians and others as All Blacks as the country heads towards the 1949 general election. The first cameo shows a man with a '?' on his jersey who scratches his head; text below reads 'Masterton - wet or dry, a trustworthy player-' The second shows PM Peter Fraser running with a rugby ball that represents 'Raglan' under his arm; text reads 'P. Fraser - his duel with Bretton Woods, (the international) will be watched with great interest-' The third cameo shows leader of the National Party, Sid Holland, whispering in the ear of a much smaller Frederick Widdowson Doidge who holds a rugby ball; text reads 'Private enterprise' - Sid's great discovery, knows all the doidges (wordplay on 'Doidge' and 'dodge') (no relation to Doug. Credit.) (is 'doug' another wordplay?) In the fourth cameo a player with his leg in plaster lies on a bed which floats in the sea; text reads 'M.S. Wanganella - the (dead) lock, may be a dead loss, still in dock with injuries received earlier. Has been to Australia before.' The fifth cameo shows a black rectangle with the words 'Wellington - All Black' below it. The sixth cameo shows two players bending over and presenting their backsides to the viewer; below are the words 'The union secretaries - back row, side row, front row, any old row will suit them - especially if it's about danger money-' (wordplay on 'row' meaning a straight line and the differently pronounced 'row' meaning 'argument') The seventh cameo in the centre is Walter Nash who grabs for a ball that represents the 'budget' (Nash's 'black budget'); text reads 'Touch'yer Nash - the fly-away half contemporary and admirer of Charlie Taxton; playing loan (or) cash (or) share league reputedly for big money-' Below him is 'Angus McLagan - the left winger - a hard man to tackle, possibly the toughest man in the country-'; McLagan runs with the ball looking tough. Eighth is a large player who sits on a rugby ball that represents 'work' looking stubborn above the text 'Willie Watersider - the go-slow (ex-Onslow) forward, generally asking somebody to back up, back out, back down, or back pay -' and in the corner is a player holding a ball that represents Karapiro above the text '-and of course, R. Semple, one of the best feat-bawlers in the country!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 380 x 490 mm

Date: 1949

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

Reference: B-184-046

Description: Prime Minister Sid Holland sits weeping at his desk over a note from Sir Winston Churchill that reads 'Can't make it - Winnie'. Portraits of Winston Churchill adorn the walls and the PM's desk. Keith Holyoake has just ushered a man through the door and says 'Go on in, Anthony - the dodge worked in "Charley's aunt"!' Context - Obviously refers to a hoped for visit from Sir Winston Churchill that didn't eventuate. The substitute is Anthony Eden who was Foreign Secretary and deputy leader of the Conservative Party from 1951 to 1955 and PM from 1955 to 1957 and who visited New Zealand and Australia in February 1949. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is the title 'The substitute' and text reading '3 col Leader P. Wed'. Anthony Eden toured Australia and New Zealand in February 1949. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 380 x 560 mm