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Date: 1937

From: Minhinnick, Gordon :[Three cartoon laser copies, published in the New Zealand Herald, August - September 1937].

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: H-540-002

Description: The cartoon shows a man representing New Zealand, playing rugby and scoring a try. However he has put the ball down at the 25 yard line instead of the try line. Two players from the opposing team, representing British agriculture and Morrison, are laughing as they watch. Two New Zealand farmers are watching with complete surprise. Refers to New Zealand agriculture. Extended Title - "I could always raise a laugh in any British audience by assuring them that the try that Wales was alleged to have scored in 1905 was not a try at all. They all remembered the All Blacks." - Hon Walter Nash. Quantity: 1 Laser copy. Physical Description: Laser copy, A4 size.

Date: 1948 - 1949

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-311-6-001/057

Description: New Zealand topics include school holidays, overloaded trams, parking offenders, shop assistants' spelling shortcomings, hot weather, the performance of jockeys, building material shortages, a fun map of Auckland, raising money for rugby, long turn-arounds on the wharves, mortgage rates and housing rentals, womens' rights and strikes, unionism, road rules, food parcels for Britain, womens' role in parenting and education, schoolgirls wearing makeup, aeronautical research, Walter Nash's travels, New Zealand lifestyles, national defence policies, delays in constructing the Mangakino power scheme, school homework, power and fuel cuts, aluminium industry prospects, bids by Auckland and Christchurch for the 1950 Empire Games, communism and duck shooting, national economic performance, introduction of radar at Auckland airport, passenger transport, strikes, house building, defence of the British Empire, shortage of taxis in Auckland, traffic problems in Auckland, Aucklanders' lack of a sense of humour, car conversion, deteriorating cars, the siting of Auckland International Airport at Mangere, conscription, weekend family life and the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge. International topics include the Cold War, food parcels for Britain, the Five Nation Alliance against Soviet Russia, Commonwealth research into rocketry and aeronautics, British Empire defence zones, the Atlantic Pact, the reluctance of the USA to share defence secrets, New Zealand's place in international affairs, and Finance Minister Walter Nash's travels. Quantity: 57 Newspaper clippings. 57 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Newspaper clippings glued to card approx 245 x 165, plus A4 photocopies. Image sizes approximately 132 x 163 mm. Transfers: Newspaper clippings are at A-311-6 and photocopies of these at H-634-001/057.

Date: 1966

From: Henderson, George Duncan, 1911?-1985:[Collection of cartoons by George Henderson (Hen). 1961-1984]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-445-058

Description: Shows a number of proposed makes of new cars. Includes Kirk Bubble car - terific acceleration; Nash vintage model - permanent warrant of fitness; Watt high voltage model and worker's model - with all modern accessories (includes surf board, fishing rod, rugby ball and beer kegs) 13 May 1966 Labour Party's ideas for how to sell itself to the public. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 180 x 210 mm

Date: 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-034/048

Description: New Zealand topics include Auckland Festival of the Arts, undercover traffic officers, the perceived threat of Japanese imports to local manfacturing, dental costs, Auckland's drainage scheme, national economic performance, youth behaviour, the construction of Auckland International Airport, the 1954 Budget, P.A.Y.E., Social credit and the appeal of quackery, the effect of British dockers strikes on goods imported for the Christmas market. International topics include Japanese exports to New Zealand, British influence in Gibraltar, Malta and Suez, Communist China and striking dockers in the United Kingdom. Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes approximately 110 x 172 mm.

Date: 1958

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-049

Description: Walter Nash and another politician standing in the centre of the North Island, under water. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1964

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: J-044-011

Description: Shows Holyoake and Nash talking. Holyoake is looking over his shoulder at an angry Asian man (probably President Sukarno of Indonesia) who is running with a sword in his hand towards another man (Malaysia). Refers to relations between New Zealand and South East Asia. 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. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 laser copy

Date: 1938

From: Various artists :[Original and printed political cartoons by A S Paterson, J J McNamara, Minhinnick, N H McIntyre ("M"), Charles Haines, and others. 1935-1949].

Reference: B-162-006

Description: Cartoon shows candidates for the Dunedin mayoralty being tried out for their running shoes by "Voter", who has for sale "Special style for Labour election wear", and "Bob" brand. Big Jim Roberts and Mark Silverstone have got theirs and are leaving the shop. The person trying on the shoes in the foreground may be incumbent mayor Rev. Edwin Thomas Cox. At the window memebers of the political Labour Party, including Savage and Nash, are looking on anxiously. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawing, 285 x 325 mm, on sheet 350 x 375 mm.

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.

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.

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: 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: 1950

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

Reference: B-184-036

Description: The Prime Minister Sid Holland has just completed a painting of the state of New Zealand's finances - it is entitled 'The financial situation 1950'. Text reads '"It would not be fair to the artist if you did not have a look at the whole picture before commenting on it." - said Mr Nash, referring to Mr Holland's Report on New Zealand's Finances'. Leader of the opposition Labour Party Walter Nash looks at the painting and says 'Hm'm - I painted much the same subject only last year - but in very, very bright colours!' Context - Nash became leader of the Labour Party at the end of 1950 when Peter Fraser died but he had been Finance Minister in the Savage and Fraser ministries from 1935. The economy was becoming sluggish and most Western European countries, as well as several in East Asia, overtook New Zealand in terms of real per capita income. The title 'Modern art' and the words '4 col' appear at the bottom of the cartoon. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue pencil on paper 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-012

Description: Prime Minister Sid Holland stands before a group of representatives of various women's organisations and angrily reprimands 'that lady with the moustache and the familiar voice...' for asking about 'that twelve million quid' again. The 'lady with the moustache' is former Labour PM Walter Nash. The man to Sid Holland's right is probably Jack Watts, who closely followed economic policy. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 340 x 500 mm

Date: 1954

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

Reference: B-184-038

Description: A group of men dance and clap as an ancient man with '"Gaffer" parliamrnt printed on his vest skips under the joined hands of PM Sid Holland and leader of the opposition Walter Nash. Above them are decorations that include a placard bearing the words 'Happy "100th" Gran'dad'. Context - the celebrations marking the one hundredth anniversary of the first meeting of parliament in May 1854. The first colonial secretary was Andrew Sinclair. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is text reading 'What a constitution!' and '3 col Today Monday 24th May '54'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pastel on paper, 390 x 560 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: 1950

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-026

Description: The cartoon begins with a man saying to a group of passers by 'The Cartoon Dept. is conducting a quick Gallop on the question - is the TAB a good thing?' The first person interviewed is a 'Mother of ten' who is surrounded by children and has a husband in tow - she answers the queston with 'All things in moderation, I say!'; second is a 'Maori elder' wearing a feathered cloak who says 'Taboo!'; Next is Mr Nash who says 'Yes - No! The government, by pursuing its disastrous financial & import policy...'; then comes a 'returned soldier' who says 'I had three in the army - never again!'; next is a 'grocer' who says 'It's taking our bread out of your mouths!' and last is an 'ex-bookie' who screams 'It was an evil day the day it started!' Context - Betting on horses was taken over in 1950 by a state-run agency, the Totalisator Agency Board or TAB which explains the wrath of the ex-bookie. The TAB began in 1950 under the first National Government with Sid Holland as PM. It was a controversial subject. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 340 x 505 mm.

Date: 1954

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-184-023

Description: Leader of the Labour Party Walter Nash and Prime Minister Sid Holland peer with torches into the darkness of the Waitomo Caves. Scattered among the stalactites and stalagmites appear the words 'wages', 'police', 'prices', Antarctica', 'budget', 'housing', 'SEATO', and 'railways'. Walter Nash's torch picks out a grinning elf sitting on a toadstool. Context - probably just before the 1954 election, won by the National Party but in which Social Credit won 11% of the total vote. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil and Chinese white on paper 380 x 480 mm

Date: 1949 - 1951

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

Reference: B-184-042

Description: The cartoon is composed of five cameos; reading anti-clockwise the first has text reading 'featuring such artists as Fred (Spike) Jones and his City Boot-Clickers' and shows the 'Spike Jones' (American?) band playing. The second has text that reads 'Bob Semple in a humourous recitation "They wouldn't let me broadcast that!"' and shows Bob Semple former trade unionist and MP in the first Labour government, yelling into a microphone. The third has the text 'And Fred Doidge swooning about "UNO I love you"' and shows Fred Doidge (Minister for Foreign Affairs and thus involved with the United Nations Organisation) singing into a microphone labelled 'NBC' (National Broadcasting Corporation). The fourth shows Sir Walter Nash, leader of the Labour opposition, holding a microphone and raising his hat accompanied by the text 'And Walter Nash, in his "Tax it from here" programme (They're very prahd of Wal back in the buildings)! The fifth and last has text reading 'Sid Holland and his search for "talent" requesting John Public to "Put another mickle in -" and shows PM Sid Holland with a large radio in the background with the words 'What's DUE box' above it exhorting a cross-looking man to pay more. Context - Sid Holland appears to be promoting the idea of more local talent on the national radio. Spike Jones and his City Slickers were an American jazz band. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is text reading '4 1/2 col'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1949

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

Reference: C-164-049

Description: The title in pencil below is 'Start of the political stunt season'. Sid Holland, leader of the National Party, has tried to do a series of somersaults and ends up crashing painfully onto the mat. Nearby PM Peter Fraser (standing on one hand) and Finance Minister, Walter Nash, do competent gymnastic exercises and the PM says (referring to Sid Holland's crash) 'I believe he calls it the 'No confidence motion'. Context - the run up to the 1949 election which was won comfortably by National. 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