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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'New Zealand will provide sufficient funds to carry out much-needed improvements to your airport facilities and - oops! Thought for a moment I was arriving at another undeveloped country!' Evening Post, 8 January 1974
- Date
- 1974
- Reference
- B-134-640
- Description
This cartoon relates to the poor state of Wellington airport and shows Prime Minister Kirk arriving at Wellington airport. As he gets off the plane he starts to make a speech about aid for airport facilities before he realises he is in Wellington, not a developing country
Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004.
Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004.
Extended Title - Mr Kirk is expected to arrive at Wellington airport tonight
Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).
Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 286 x 394 mm
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988] / Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Cartoons for the Evening Post, 1974]
- Format
- 1 original cartoon(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Caricatures, Ink, letratone and crayon, 286 x 394 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'New Zealand will provide sufficient funds to carry out much-needed improvements to your airport facilities and - oops! Thought for a moment I was arriving at another undeveloped country!' Evening Post, 8 January 1974. Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]. Ref: B-134-640. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22785893More information can be found in our terms of use.