Parliamentary messenger Mr Robert Smith, with cardboard boxes used for deliveries - Photographs taken by Gail Selkirk

Date
10 November 1983
By
Selkirk, Gail, active 1983
Reference
EP/1983/4507
Description

Parliamentary messenger Mr Robert Smith holding two cardboard boxes used for deliveries, photographed 10 November 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Gail Selkirk.

Original Evening Post caption reads: "...the humble and practical box, shown in action by a parliamentary messenger, Mr Robert Smith, outside Opposition leader Mr Lange's office today, became the centre of controversy yesterday. The Labour MP for Northern Maori, Dr Bruce Gregory, rose in Parliament to ask the Prime Minister, Mr Muldoon, whether it was his policy to allow messengers to use discarded cardboard containers tied with string to deliver material to MPs..."

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images.

Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers / Further negatives of the Evening Post newspaper
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1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images, Negatives, Acetate negatives, Portraits, Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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Date: 10 November 1983

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1983/4507/3

Description: Parliamentary messenger Mr Robert Smith holding two cardboard boxes used for deliveries, photographed 10 November 1983 by Evening Post staff photographer Gail Selkirk. Original Evening Post caption reads: "...the humble and practical box, shown in action by a parliamentary messenger, Mr Robert Smith, outside Opposition leader Mr Lange's office today, became the centre of controversy yesterday. The Labour MP for Northern Maori, Dr Bruce Gregory, rose in Parliament to ask the Prime Minister, Mr Muldoon, whether it was his policy to allow messengers to use discarded cardboard containers tied with string to deliver material to MPs..." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on a 35mm negative strip.

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