Point Blank Press Company Ltd

Operating in Wellington in 1939

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Manuscript

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company file

Date: 1939-1940

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-151

Description: Letters to the Fields and to various other people and companies mostly accompanying financial payments; includes some letters to the Native Trust Department re rentals Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Alexander, Kenneth Alfred Evelyn, 1890?-1953 :He got the honey, but... Point Blank, Jan...

Date: 1937

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).

By: Alexander, Kenneth Alfred Evelyn, 1890?-1953; Point Blank Press Company Ltd

Reference: A-313-1-043

Description: A dairy farmer has extracted a pail of 'guaranteed price honey' from 'Labour's magic tree' but he and his dog are being chased by a swarm of bees that are 'the increased cost of everything'. From behind a tree, New Zealand prime minister Michael Savage watches in dismay the bad effects of his Labour government's policy of guaranteed prices for dairy produce. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

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Alexander, Kenneth Alfred Evelyn, 1890?-1953 :The story of the pyramid. Point Blank, 16...

Date: 1935

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).

By: Alexander, Kenneth Alfred Evelyn, 1890?-1953; Point Blank Press Company Ltd

Reference: A-313-1-042

Description: New Zealand prime minister Michael Savage as a pharaoh standing on top of 'the pyramid of power', holding 'the scroll of Labour [Labour Party]' in his hand and being worshipped by four members of the poor and fanned by two of his cabinet ministers. Leaders of the Coalition government which had lost the election, George Forbes and Gordon Coates are tumbling off the dark side of the pyramid into 'the desert of opposition'. Forbes says to Coates 'Let us leave with becoming dignity, O Gordon!' and Coates replies 'That's all very well, but I slipped'. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.