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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Mr Watt, the poor people of the city can no longer buy butter! - Let them eat cheese. [Between 1957 and 1960]
- Date
- 1957 - 1960
- Reference
- B-133-028
- Description
Shows two men fighting in the background one, a waterside worker and the other a cool store worker. In the foreground is a man complaining to Hugh Watt, Minister of Works, that industrial disputes are preventing people from buying butter. Watt is reading a newspaper with the heading 'Laisser faire system for settling demarcation disputes', and echoes Marie Antoinette, suggesting 'Let them eat cheese'. Refers to the public perception that the Government is failing to act to prevent industrial disputes.
Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).
Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 288 x 391 mm
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- Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988] / Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Undated cartoons, some from the 1970s, and cartoons from the 1950s]
- Format
- 1 original cartoon(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Cartoons (Commentary), Ink and letratone, 288 x 391 mm
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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Mr Watt, the poor people of the city can no longer buy butter! - Let them eat cheese. [Between 1957 and 1960]. Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]. Ref: B-133-028. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22718068More information can be found in our terms of use.