IMAGE
Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :Of course, you could always jump off a bridge, if we HAD a bridge! [1953]
- Date
- 1953
- By
- Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
- Reference
- C-132-887
- Description
Shows Sir John Allum, the Mayor of Auckland giving advice to a suicidal man, seated in a chair with a noose around his neck. He has already tried a gun, arsenic, prussic acid, and a razor. The reason for his dejection is a telegramme from Prime Minister Holland, rejecting a request for a loan for building the Auckland Harbour Bridge. At the top left is stuck a clipping from the Evening Post, 21 March 1953, page 10.
Other Titles - No loan money for Auckland's bridge
Inscriptions: Recto - top left - This cartoon was rejected by the Editor on the grounds that he did not think that the Evening Post should help contribute to the increase in the suicide rate in N.Z. - N.M.C.
Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).
Physical Description: Ink and crayon drawing, on sheet 290 x 434 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Photocopy in public folders.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :[Twenty-eight (28) original cartoons, 1940s and 1950s].
- Format
- 1 original cartoon(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Cartoons (Commentary), Caricatures, Ink and crayon drawing, on sheet 290 x 434 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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