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Blomfield, William, 1866-1938:In a very bad way. Toper B.N.Z. (to Toper C.B.) - 'I feel 'lmighty bad. S'poshun we - hic - hold each other up. Soon gesh home - hic'. But neither can leave the friendly lamp-post it proves too good a friend. 14 September, 1895
- Date
- 1895
- By
- Blomfield, William, 1866-1938; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)
- Reference
- A-312-6-034
- Description
Two men in a drunken stupor clutch each other and a lamp-post that represents parliament. One wears a top hat with the words 'Bank of New Zealand' on the band and the other a top-hat with 'Colonial Bank' on the band. In the background is the Parliament building with the words 'Prosperity Home' across its facade. Refers to the bank scandals of 1894/95 in which more government and shareholder money was pumped into the BNZ and its frozen properties were taken over and losses guarenteed by a state company. The Colonial Bank, which had regularly falsified its accounts, was taken over by the BNZ.
This cartoon is discussed in 'The unauthorized version' by Ian Grant - Page 54. A toper is a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.
Physical Description: photocopy
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by various cartoonists
- Format
- 1 photocopy/ies, Works of art, Cartoons (Commentary), Caricatures, photocopy
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