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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.