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Date: 1949

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: C-164-050

Description: The title reads 'Hardly cricket! The cartoon shows a game of cricket with the 'Budget' as the wickets. Labour bowls and National bats and the two leaders wear multiple hats. From the left, clockwise, the batters (National) are - ?, William Sullivan, William Goosman, National leader Sid Holland, ?, Ronald Algie. From left clockwise (Labour) are Walter Nash, PM Peter Fraser, Robert Semple, ?, ?, ?. A judge sitting above calls out 'No ball', 'over', wide', and 'out'. Text reads 'Station 2YA - We now cross for a bawl by bawl commentary by John-Owe-a-lot, on the third day's play of the match Gentlemen v. Players - "Holland has yet to open his Account... Nash opens the bowling... Fraser will take over at the other end... Holland loans into this one and makes a recovery drive for four million... John Taxpayer sends a very poor return into the income tax people.... Semple comes on to bawl... He's looking for an argument to bowl with... What's Orson Wells doing at Third Man? Goosman is yet to break his duck... Now he electrifies the crowd with a tremendous power cut... Point of order is moving in... There's an apeal against the Electric Light Account... and they're taking the tea adjournment, so I'll pass you over to "Arfer Million for his impressions so far".' The title 'Start of the political stunt season' is at the bottom. Scribbled in blue ink are the words 'Cancelled' (why?) Was it because Labour lost and this cartoon shows them pretty confident? Also text '4 col Stipple over carpet'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 555 x 760 mm

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 - 1952

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-009

Description: The scene is the cartoonist's desk on which a telephone with its receiver off the hook rings and the cartoonist makes ink spots with his brush - the inkspots become small silhouettes of from left; Walter Nash, leader of the Labour opposition, Sid Holland, Prime Minister, William Sullivan, Minister of Labour, Ronald Algie, Minister of Education, and Keith Holyoake Minister of Agriculture and marketing. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper 370 x 440 mm

Date: 1951

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Sports post (Newspaper)

Reference: B-184-027

Description: Text reads '"Statisticians say that three million people will be in New Zealand within twenty years and this will create unprecedented problems - The Prime Minister'. The title of the cartoon is 'Today's problem' and on a cot in which lies a screaming baby are the words 'Tomorrow's child'; attached to the baby is a tag with the words 'Please feed and educate him, and find him a job'. The baby has been left at the doors of parliament and staring in consternation are Prime Minister Sid Holland, Minister of Education Ronald Algie, Minister of Labour Bill Sullivan. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 380 x 490 mm.

Date: 1949 - 1951

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

Reference: B-184-043

Description: The cartoon shows gigantic waves interspersed with question marks that are bearing down on a flimsy raft on which is standing PM Sid Holland and a terrified chicken resembling Education Minister Ronald Algie. Possibly refers to the waterfront strike in 1951 At bottom of cartoon in pencil is text reading '3 col today L. News'.'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and Chinese white on paper, 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1949 - 1954

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-011

Description: A group of Wanganui schoolgirls surround Ronald Algie Minister of Education, as he walks through the school gates. He carries various suitcases and rolled up documents; 'New school plans - and other jokes', 'Applications for grants - and other laughable matters', 'Various gags for Education Boards, 'Education Finance - and other funny money' and 'The whole bag of tricks'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 330 x 510 mm

Date: 1950 - 1951

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

Reference: B-184-047

Description: Cock Robin lies dead with an arrow through his heart, shot from the bow of PM Sid Holland. The 'Who killed Cock Robin?' rhyme has been altered to fit the occasion. It reads 'WHO KILLED THE COUNCIL? "I", said the Prime Minister, "With my little Bill, I killed the Council". WHO'LL BEAR HIS PALL? "We" said Algie and Marshall, "With uncle Tom Cobley an' all, we'll bear the pall". WHO'LL SING A PSALM? "I" said Mr Fraser, "I'll sing his praise, Sir, I'll sing a psalm." WHO'LL LEAD THE WAY? "I', said the Hon. Lee Martin, "It's all my eye and Betty Martin, I'll lead the way". WHO SAW HIM DIE? "I" said Bill Polson, "with my little aye, I saw him die." WHO'LL DIG HIS GRAVE? "We," said the suicide squad, "We'll turn the first sod, we'll dig his grave." WHO'LL MAKE HIS SHROUD? "I," said Sir Bill Perry, Not to be contrary, I'll make his shroud." WHO'LL TOLL THE BELL? "We," said the Labour chorus, "take pity on poor us, we'll toll the bell." 'All the birds in the air sobbed loud & shrill when they heard of the passing of the Legislative Council'. - To all it concerns, who read this collection - will Cock Robin stand at the next general election?' Context - The Legislative Council of New Zealand was the upper house of the New Zealand Parliament from 1853 until 1951. In 1950, the National Party, now in government, passed the Legislative Council Abolition Act. To assist its passage into law, Holland appointed twenty members known as the 'suicide squad', to vote for their own abolition, just as the Australian state of Queensland had done to abolish its upper house in 1922. They included former MPs Harold Dickie and Garnet Mackley. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is the title 'Cock Robin' and text reading '4 col' and '(Approved by editor)' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 450 x 590 mm

Date: 1949

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-013

Description: At a prize-giving ceremony a 'Roads Scholarship' is being presented to William Stanley Goosman by William Stanley Goosman wearing an academic gown printed with the words 'Min. of Works' and a mortar board. A man in the audience (also William Stanley Goosman') who has the words 'Min. of State Hydro Electricity' printed on his jacket claps and yells 'Bravo Stan!' Overseeing the distribution of prizes is Minister of Education Ronald Algie in academic gown and mortar board who checks a scroll entitled 'Police Commission'. Context - The awarding of portfolios at the beginning of the new National government in 1949. The portfolio for public works and transport was held by William Stanley Goosman. Goosman was Minister of Works, Transport, Railways and Marine in the first Holland government from 1949 to 1954 and continued in Holland's second ministry as Minister of Works and Transport. The cartoon probably dates from the beginning of the first ministry in 1949. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper 380 x 470 mm