Commonwealth Games - Medals
Various artists :[Athletics badge and medal for Arthur Porritt in 1950].
Date: 1950
From: Various artists :[Curios, badges, medals and awards from the Porritt papers]
Reference: Curios-040-025
Description: Includes: British Empire Games, Auckland 1950. Federation Chairman [badge] [Shows a gold-coloured winged foot superimposed on a silver fern] British Empire Games 1950. New Zealand. A E Porritt, CBE, FRCS [Medal showing Britannia] Quantity: 2 curio(s). Physical Description: Silver and bronze objects, sizes varying up to 52 mm.
New Zealand coxed four, winners of silver medal at 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games
Date: 30 July 1986
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1986/3700-F
Description: New Zealand coxed four, winners of silver medal at 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, photographed at the award ceremony, 30 July 1986, by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Medals. 4 August 2014
Date: 2014
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0028973
Description: Cartoon shows gold, silver, and bronze medals won by New Zealand athletes in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, shining brightly in the foreground. In the background in semi-darkness are military medals earned by New Zealand soldiers in World War I. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
High ho silver! 22 seconds of fame. 16 October 2010
Date: 2010
From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers
Reference: DCDL-0015844
Description: Shows a happy kiwi with 22 silver medals round its neck. It shouts 'High Ho Silver!' Text below reads '22 seconds of fame'. New Zealand collected 36 medals in all; 6 gold, 22 silver and 8 bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Games team home. "And after I've seen your medal you can show me all thirty of those co...
Date: 2002
From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]
Reference: DCDL-0002346
Description: The scene is a kitchen. An athlete, just home from the Commonwealth Games, is opening his suitcase to show his wife his gold medal. She demands that he show her all 30 of the condoms he was issued after she admires his medal. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Struth... the Games have only been going five minutes and already those greedy Austral...
Date: 2010
From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers
Reference: DCDL-0015763
Description: The cartoon shows an enormous shark wearing a hat with corks and threatening to swallow several other little fish. The word 'DELHIcatessen' appears inside the shark's mouth. Text above comments that 'the Games have only been going five minutes and already those greedy Aussies are eating the opposition, winning zillions of medals'. Refers to Australia's domination of the medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989:[Commonwealth games medal tally - Canada 1, England 2, A...
Date: 1978
From: Various cartoonists :Two cartoons by Nevile Lodge on the 1978 Commonwealth Games and two cartoons by Heath on the Commonwealth Games, possibly 1974 or 1978.
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: A-349-064
Description: A kiwi bird takes his place on the 1978 Commonwealth Games winners' platform. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, pencil and letratone 278 x 397 mm.