Stop Laughing, This is Serious (or should be)

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	110 Jim Bancks "I wonder Mr Hughes… in your own words, how Mr Bruce compares with you as a Prime Minister?", c.1925. Pen & ink, signed lower right, 22.5 x 22cm. Published in The Sun. The reply from Hughes is unprintable, but drawable.	$590
	111 Noel Counihan "It's Professor Hotchit, they caught him talking to a newspaper boy", c.1950. Pen & ink, signed lower right, 27 x 20cm.	$1,200
	112 Will Dyson Will we get the habit?, 1927. Pen & ink and crayon, 62.4 x 51.5cm. Cartoon, published in the Herald.	$950
	113 Eyre Jnr. "If they keep on arguing among themselves, they'll never break through that door", 1946. Pen & ink, signed lower right, 27 x 34.5cm. Published in Sydney Morning Herald 13.11.1946. With caption from the Sydney Morning Herald attached. The Labor Premier of N.S.W., William McKell, indicating the state of friction between the Coalition parties at the time.	$390
	114 Geroge Finney IF, c.1940s. Pen & ink on textured paper, signed upper right, 36.5 x 47.2cm. A depiction of the world after a nuclear explosion, perhaps.	$1,890
	115 JAC "The Winner", 1944. Pen & ink, signed lower right, 23 x 26.5cm. Laid down on cardboard. Published in the Daily Mirror 29.5.44. Showing a victorious William McKell, new Labor Premier of N.S.W., as a boxer.	$390
	116 Peter Lindsay "Have you got a wife?" "Why no - sorry I haven't!" "Oh haven't you - well who tells you what to do?", c.1925. Pen & ink, signed lower left, 23 x 19.4cm.	$390
	117 Peter Lindsay "Hey - you can't catch fish there - it's out of season!" "Well, who said I was?", c.1925. Pen & ink, signed lower right, 22.2 x 23.7cm. The fisherman's lament!	$490
	118 Claude Marquet The New Labor Party, 1916. Pen & ink, signed and dated lower left, 56 x 44.5cm. The bitterness against W.H. Hughes is evident - he lies trampled as people race towards the "Free Democracy" of the New Labor Party.	$1,790
	119 Claude Marquet Federal Age Pensions, 1908. Pen & ink, signed and dated lower right, 54 x 43cm. The text describes "the effect of the introduction of the pension - the importer "Fat Person" says the time is not ripe. "Australia" holding a bag of surplus revenue explains it is fair to give to the poor.	$1,790