IMAGE
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Because of the government's ANZUS stance, an urgent review of the nation's defence requirements is underway. Evening Post. 7 March 1985.
- Date
- 1985
- By
- Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
- Reference
- B-136-424
- Description
Shows three vignettes. In the first a disgruntled looking farmer is watching as armed forces personnel put up a barbed wire fence. The officer is telling him that the government is erecting barbed wire around the coastline. In the second a topdressing pilot is being told to drop bombs instead of fertiliser in the event of any hostilities. In the third an officer is standing on Mt Victoria in Wellington and telling his men that the old signal gun is to be turned around and pointed over Cook Strait. He is holding a 'Capital Defence Plan'.
Extended Title - In view of the present economic situation, the government may have to consider defence "on the cheap" -
Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).
Physical Description: Ink, chinese white, crayon and letratone on paper, 350 x 408 mm
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- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- 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, 1985]
- Format
- 1 original cartoon(s), Works of art, Cartoons (Commentary), Ink, chinese white, crayon and letratone on paper, 350 x 408 mm
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