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The staged introduction of equal pay in the public service is satirised in this 1960 cartoon. Walter Nash, prime minister at the time, is shown on bended knee, offering women voters ‘an awful nice case’ with nothing in it. Finance Minister Arnold Nordmeyer keeps a beady eye on proceedings.
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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections
Reference: AWN26.10.1960 p. 6
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