Mr Ernie Abbott holding a cauliflower - Photograph taken by Alan Stevenson

Date
16 September 1977
By
Stevenson, Alan, active 1978
Reference
EP/1977/3688-F
Description

Mr Ernie Abbott holding a small cauliflower which cost him $1.40. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Alan Stevenson on the 16th of September 1977

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images.

Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

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Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers / Further negatives of the Evening Post newspaper
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1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images, Negatives, Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
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Mr Ernie Abbott holding a cauliflower - Photograph taken by Alan Stevenson

Date: 16 September 1977

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1977/3688/4-F

Description: Mr Ernie Abbott holding a small cauliflower which cost him $1.40. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Alan Stevenson on the 16th of September 1977 In two weeks the price of cauliflowers had risen from 59 cents to $1.40. According to the Department of Trade and Industry this was because they were an off-season luxury. According to a vegetable market spokesman recent cold weather was the problem. Mr Abbott who was the Vice President of the Caretakers and Cleaners Union, supported by the union, delivered a motion to the Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Adams-Schnider, condemning the rise in prices. Ernie Abbott was also the victim of the Trades Hall bombing in Wellington in 1984. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on 35mm strip.