Antarctica - Discovery and exploration - Japanese

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-005

Description: Vignettes reflecting current affairs. 'Woes of a cartoonist' shows David Low, his head in his hands, desperately trying to avoid a Wellington problem, where an MP is prosecuting a cartoonist for depicting him from his back view. In a related sketch alongside, Christchurch Mayor, Tommy Taylor, threatens to prosecute the cartoonists, having recognised his own hair in a drawing. A Finnish village is shown chained to the mainland, after a whole village was reported to have floated away in Finland. A ghost threatens a Christchurch City Councillor with a long white beard. The councillor does not known his own mind. A farmer races away after being confronted in Canada with 80,000 prospective brides, a recent reported event. 'The Jap Polar expedition' shows a group of Japanese men greeting the Japanese consul in Christchurch, after their unexpected arrival. Neither group can understand the other, and Japanese script spelling out whisky, cow and banzai is shown. 'The great gas box, via canal' shows a box containing a gas tank too large to travel via the Lyttelton tunnel being hauled by a traction engine. There is also a reference to a proposed canal between Lyttelton and Christchurch as an alternative means of transport. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 530 x 405 mm

Date: Feb 1911

From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-3037-1-18

Description: Sailing ship 'Kainan Maru', in Wellington Harbour, February 1911, during Japan's first expedition to Antarctica, 1910-1912. Photograph taken by Zak (Joseph Zachariah). Source of descriptive information - Notes on print, and on file print Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - "Kainan Maru" Japanese Exploring Ship for the Antarctic; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - "Zak" photo, Welln NZ Protected 12.670. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.8 x 13.8 cm (postcard)

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-001

Description: Vignettes reflecting issues current in 1911. 'Captain Scott was surprised to find the Amundsen expedition at the Polar regions' continues with 'Our pessimistic artist things he may possibly get a greater surprise when he reaches the Pole' and shows a Japanese man seated on The South Pole with Scott and another man drawing up alongside with their dog sled. 'No less than 4 prize fighters died in the ring last month' shows a boxer fighting against Death as a skeleton. 'Bridged. The Hon R. McKenzie opened the new Waiau bridge last week' shows McKenzie standing astride the Waiau River and forming a bridge out of his body. 'Massey at large' shows William Massey as a goat, making a very-badly received speech at Kaiapoi. A man being booted out of a gaol refers to the reduction in Johnson the pugilist's gaol sentence. The shocked schoolboy shows two small boys trying not to look at a poster of a scantily-clad dancer, the 'Champagne Girl' performing at an Auckland's Theatre Royal. Lord Lansdowne kneels before George V with Lord Asquith in the background, over the matter of the Crown creating new peerages. 'Dress rehearsal' shows Sir Joseph Ward in Irish costume, dancing an Irish jig before his visit to Ireland. 'Canal pies' shows a small boy contemplating the purchase of two very expensive pies, a larger one for a proposed canal between Lyttelton and Christchurch, a smaller one for Sumner to Heathcote. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, 533 x 385 mm