Cartoon Exhibition

The famous New Zealand cartoonist A. S. Paterson, who drew daily sketches for the Dominion newspaper for 25 years, and who is now curator of the Gisborne Museum and Art Gallery, exhibited some of his works in the Art Gallery recently.

In 1937, the request of the residents of Gisborne for a new name for Poverty Bay prompted Mr Paterson to draw the cartoon reproduced below, which appeared in the Dominion. This was one of his earlier efforts and contained a figure sitting on the beach surf-casting....a prediction of a sport which at the time did not exist, but which is now very popular on Gisbbrne's beaches.

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Mr Paterson indicates a point of interest in one of the many cartoons in the exhibition

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