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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Carryings on in sleepy Nelson, There's where the cotto...
Date: 1960
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-133-076
Description: Watched by a small crowd Prime Minister Walter Nash is operating a tip truck which is dumping ten million pounds worth of fill into water. His left hand indicates a factory subscribed £4 million in the left distance. Above the truck, as doves, Arnold Nordmeyer, Finance Minister, labelled 'surplus' and a businessman labelled 'cotton interests' fly. The cartoon refers to the amount of money the government was prepared to 'pour' into the establishment of the railway and a cotton manufacturing industry in Nelson. In the bottom right of the cartoon is written 'With apologies to Ol' Virginny, Stephen Foster An' Pore Black Joe'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, white paint and pencil 380 x 470 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Reason and Rhymes of the Times 1960
Date: 1960
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-133-084
Description: The cartoon is titled 'Reasons and Rhymes of the times' and shows four scenes. An irate man labelled 'nature lover' holds a newspaper headlined 'Courtenay Place pohutukawas to make way for bus stop' exclaims "poohutubustops!" at the prospect of the trees being destroyed. A cheery man holding a newspaper headlined 'Airlines diverted from Auckland to Wellington' refers to Auckland's Whenuapai airport when he asks a cross-looking Teal Airlines passenger disembarking from an aeroplane "No Whenuapai whenuaflai?". A seaman asks the commander of a submarine, S22, tied up at a wharf with Rangitoto Island in the background "Get some pinnacle in your binnacle?". Arnold Nordmeyer, Minister of Finance, holding a cable from Prime Minister Walter Nash telling him that Nash has given £100,000 to the Congo shrugs his shoulders and says "100,000 for the Congo -/Easy come and easy go". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil 380 x 450 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.