In the 1950s and 1960s the government was keen to industrialise New Zealand's economy to reduce its reliance on agriculture. This 1964 Nevile Lodge cartoon plays on the fact that the government offered cheap hydroelectric power to Comalco as an incentive for it to build an aluminium smelter at Tīwai Point, south of Invercargill. The character saying 'Jackpot' is Robert Muldoon, under-secretary to the minister of finance at that time. Deputy Prime Minister Jack Marshall is looking on, and holding the money is Prime Minister Keith Holyoake. The reference to 'Bluff' is a pun on bluffing during a poker game and the location of Tīwai Point near the port of Bluff.

Courtesy of Debby Edwards