Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Reference: A-349-008

Description: Three scenes involving sports broadcasts. The first shows the head of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation being hit on the head with a microphone, by an enraged man. The second shows an announcer watching the rowing in Perth. The third shows a group of men, probably reporters, watching a minor and relatively dull marathon in Wellington. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 270 x 364 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Reference: A-349-007

Description: Four scenes involving athletes bothered by flies. A team march-past is described as a fly-past with swarms of flies at head-level. A starter accidentally shoots himself in the face and lets off a can of fly-spray above his head. Three men receiving medals complain because the winner with his laurel wreath has an additional problem of greenfly around his head. Peter Snell is shown at the front of a running race, fly-free, while those immediately behind him are plagued with flies. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 278 x 355 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Reference: A-349-010

Description: Four scenes involving New Zealand sportsmen and reporters, all surrounded by flies. The first shows a runner attributing his success to both coach Arthur Lydiard, and to N Z cheese, then under threat from the UK joining the EEC. The second shows an athlete ready to run and hand out a pamphlet 'E E C unfair to N Z'. The third shows an athlete winning a race. A banner streams from his back 'N Z first for mutton too'. The fourth shows reporters surrounding an athlete, promoting 'beautiful fly-free New Zealand - all except Mangere'. Probably refers to the Mangere midge problem of the period. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 265 x 379 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Reference: A-349-013

Description: Four scenes of sporting rivalry between New Zealand's main centres. Three men cheer loudly for Barrie Devenport, a Wellington swimmer, the first to conquer Cook Strait. A swimmer in Dunedin contemplates swimming from Dunedin to land-locked Green Island; another swimmer eyes a duck paddling along the Avon River in Christchurch; a cook in Auckland readies himself to swim across to Devonport, a pun on a Devenport being the first to swim across Cook Strait. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on card, 364 x 264 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Reference: A-349-012

Description: Three exhausted athletes about to be presented with their medals at the Commonwealth Games in Perth. The man in first position has a label 'Begg' beneath him Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on card, 279 x 278 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Reference: A-349-009

Description: Four scenes showing two men in an office in conversation. One man reads a letter in a newspaper concerning state pay levels, then asks for the explanation of the word 'anathema'. The second man suggests it might mean 'anthem' as played whenever New Zealand won a gold medal at the Empire Games Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on card, 265 x 367 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Reference: A-349-006

Description: A New Zealand father and two small boys on their way to their front lawn to imitate Peter Snell's medal-winning running feats at the Perth games in 1962. The boys' mother watches in amusement from the kitchen window. The father's comment also refers to Barrie Devenport's win in swimming in the British Empire Games a week previously Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 224 x 266 mm Provenance: The collection had been assembled by Mr George Craig

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Seven cartoons by Lodge on the 1962 British Empire Games and one on swimming Cook Strait.

Reference: A-349-011

Description: Five scenes involving Keith Holyoake wrestling with the European Common Market; fencing with world leaders; jumping over hurdles of French resistance and preferences in relation to the EEC; running a cross-country race up the steep hill of economic stability; and dealing with angry New Zealand dairy and sheep farmers. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 278 x 364 mm