Competition

Date: 2001

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-673-024/046

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues, includes: Shows scientists' adhock research into the potential uses of genetic modification at the expense of commonsense. Comment on the intimidation tactics of Qantas Airlines toward Air New Zealand. Singapore Airlines are shown as Air New Zealands big sister ally. Christine Rankin considers taking further action following the release of the Employment Courts findings. Shows the Government (surfer) riding the knowledge wave only to be wiped out and lodged head first in the sand. Discussion between an Israeli soldier and Palestinian child. The soldier is trying to explain to the child how violence and retaliation works. The child just wants to play and go to the movies. Shows Helen Clark dealing with Steve Maharey and his use of obscene language. Shows members of the Electoral Reform Committee as angelic, working for the best interests of the country while having vested interests in the Committees outcome. Helen Clark calls on the All Blacks to crush the Australians while they've down. New Zealand reaction to the loss by the All Blacks to the Australians. Shows All Black Anton Oliver taking the blame for the loss against Australia. Comment on the Qantas involvement in running Ansett into the ground and leaving small creditors in ruins. Comment on the lack of constructive action being taken by the Pacific Forum to deal with global warming and the consequent rising of the ocean level. Shows Helen Clark encouraging all her Ministers to keep pets. Jim Anderton is shown wrapped in the arms of his pet octupus (Peoples' Bank). Shows West Coast MP, Damien O'Connor, addressing an audience about local mining and the poor decision made by Alliance MP Sandra Lee. He is reminded by a miner in the wings that his seat is still marginal. Shows Jim Anderton and Sandra Lee observing the Reefton Alliance office being pelted with food in reaction to Sandra Lee saying 'no' to mine expansion in the area. Shows a new army armoured vehicle running over an air force plane. Comment on the current situation where the armies supplies are being boosted while the air force is having its wings clipped. Shows thugs from the power company breaking into a persons house to extract money for the latest exorbitant power bill. Shows an All Black player finishing a Springbok (South African Rugby Team) and still feeling hungry. He thinks he could polish off the entire Australian Rugby Team (Wallabies) as well. Shows the relationship between government controlled power generators, empty lakes and increased revenue for power for the Reserve Bank. Shows a proposed statue for the entrance of the Sydney Harbour. Comment on Australia's policy to exclude refugees. Shows Michelle Boag's National Party purge of Parliamentary faithful. Comment on the level of ignorant public opinion over the boat people refugees trying to gain entry to Australia, by people ringing talkback radio. Quantity: 23 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-340

Description: Two scenarios show how space exploration officials could get even, and illustrates the space race between Russia and the United States. The first shows three men with a spacecraft on a launch pad behind, exclaiming at the Russians beating them. The next shows four men looking at a monitor, where an astronaut is explaining that there has been the first pedestrian casualty in space - The Major stepped out just as the Tiros II went past. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil, 313 x 402 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-134-641

Description: The cartoon shows a group of 6 office workers standing in their office. A newspaper on one of the desks has the day's headlines. Five of the men look grumpy and have pulled out their wallets to pay money they owe to the sixth man, who is standing in the middle collecting the bets he has won and is boasting about the team that he supports. Refers to Wellington losing the Ranfurly Shield to Auckland. Extended Title - "I like to think we Wellingtonians are good losers, but it's hard to be when some Aucklanders are such bad winners!" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 395 x 320 mm.

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-647-001/080

Description: 80 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Laila Harre and views on liberalisation of cannabis laws, Helen Clark asserts authority over Ms Turia, Maori and pakeha racial guilt and shame, Ms Turia reluctantly apologises for 'holocaust' comments, Dr Cullen ponders low business confidence as Grouch Marxist, Timor's Indepencence birthday celebrations destroyed by violence, Fijian-Indian refugees in Fiji following coup, political posturing over Treaty of Waitangi clause in free trade agreement with Singapore, US dollar blasts kiwi dollar, Sydney 2000 Olympics begin, Winston Peters plays the race card in the hopes of raising his popularity, Olympic swimming athletes get the once over by their female onlookers, Australian-New Zealand currency merger proposal, Prebble gets axed by Jenny Shipley, Kiwi dollar low and oil prices high, New Zealand is best at all the wrong things, sports couch potatoes, Milosevic runs for the presidency, US dollars gains steam with President Clinton in charge, women's performance at the Olympics, political awards, NZ toasts the Olympics, army peace keepers get pay review by Clark, 3 Middle East faiths based on love and compassion unable to share sacred site, Don Brash fails the Kiwi dollar, Clark and Milosevic relations, Israeli and Palestinian relations, court call for accountability of parole officers, NZ cricket sports fan still in the dark, NZ dollar down - sharemarket down - petrol prices up, Middle East pro-war protest singer, Clinton attempts to negotiate Middle East and National Party crises, Mr Mudgeway in padded cell waiting for big NZ sports win, rural economy on the up for farmers, Swain and Horomia on ownership of the Taranaki oil and gas fields, Lions rugby team claim the Air New Zealand trophy, Clark seeks an alliance with big business, Clark's alliance with big bisiness consumated, one-tree-hill pine tree felled along with Mike Smith, same-sex marriages, Clark preparing to kneecap Ruth Dyson for Norm Hewitt comments, Property Bill, Dyson resigns over drunk driving incident, purity pledge, cricket match-fixing, support for Paul Holmes' salary, lack of real choice in US presidential elections, NZ Melbourne Cup race winner, US election results on a knife edge, boxing - Lennox vs Tua, All Blacks beat France, Lennox Lewis vs David Tua boxing fight, US presidential election goes to court, English strung up as heretic, Tipene O'Reagan let's nature take its course with stranded whales, Labour Party victory conference, CNN backgrounds the US election count process, petrol prices high, US presidential election fought out on American flag, George Hawkins' suggested cost cutting measures for the Police, National Party leadership based on personality deficit of Bill English, George W. Bush wins Florida, Clarks preparation for Waitangi Day, Tainui iwi's new grievance cycle, Mrs Mudgeway's son hopes to qualify for ACC compensation, Clinton is back as President?, the new and the old All Black diet, signs of recovery in NZ economy being hidden from Don Brash, NZ/Australia defence spending and policies, Hawkins hands out pornography to Police to cut phone-sex costs, being a modern day All Black, Clark and Cullen's popularity increases, Simon Upton departs the National Party, obituary to reporter Mike Robson, America - where every judge counts in becoming President, Clark still unable to apologise to Dover Samuel, cricket at the Basin Reserve for Boxing Day test, petrol war, Anderton and Bunkle over question of where Phillida resides, Paul Holmes CD for Christmas makes Granddad throw-up. Quantity: 80 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- : Evening Post cartoons. 1 - 30 June 1992

Reference: H-001-017

Description: Shows Maurice Williamson making a speech. Refers to SKY's successful bid over TVNZ for exclusive rights to screen the All Black tour of South Africa Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 2002

By: Hubbard, James, 1949-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-662-001/009

Description: 9 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. Comment on the salacious interest some men have in watching professional tennis player - Kournikova - play on television. Shows two executives discuss the types of projects prisoners are seeking student loans for. Shows Air NZ's logo pointing to the sky as comment on their fare increases. Comment on the security measures taken by Police during the NZ Golf Open where American Tiger Woods appeared. An Air NZ representative trys to interest Tiger Woods in buying the ailing airline. Shows representatives of the clergy, the NZ Golf Open organisers, the public and the liquor, food and catering industry praying for Tiger Woods todo better in the Tournament. Shows Tiger Woods as a tiger being dragged around the field by the leaders of the NZ Golf Open. Shows NZs border security being distracted by the NZ Golf Open and Tiger Woods and unwittingly letting into the country a Tamil Tiger Guerilla. Shows Prince Charles talking to a dope plant, urging it to stay away from his son, Prince Harry, in the future. Shows poor security within the NZ Army. Shows a set of NZ Cricket uniforms being collected from the drycleaners. The tops have big hearts on them that the drycleaner assure the NZ Cricket rep. are just perspiration stains. Refers to how well the Black Caps have been playing recently. Shows the gap in wealth between Lotto gamblers, ACC lump sum recipients and victims who have been awarded criminal reparation. Shows two Maori youth wearing clothes covered in labels and logos. A newspaper headline says that $1 million will go toward developing a Maori trademark. The youths wonder why. Shows a daylight robbery by Creative NZ from a bank. Quantity: 9 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies.

Date: 2001

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-673-047/067

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. The All Blacks and Wallabies rugby teams put aside their differences to farewell John Eales. Australian Prime Minister's stance on Afghani refugees coming into Australia. Jim Bolger promotes the People's Bank as Jim's Bank. A red neck Australian suggests Helen Clark take the rest of their non-white population as well as the Afghan refugees. Air Force cadets sit an exam, one question asks what the greatest threat to NZ's combat Air Force is. The options include Helen Clark. Jim Bolger walks the tight-rope between credibility and scepticism with Jim Anderton on his shoulders. Refers to their working relationship within the People's Bank. A pilot looks alarmed as the left wing (Ansett Australia) is cut off the plane (Air New Zealand). Winston Peters gives his position on people seeking refugee status in New Zealand. The Statue of Liberty weeps as the twin towers in New York smoulder. Osama bin Laden reminds the world of the dignity and nobility of their cause. A paralell is drawn between breaking the cycle of welfare dependency and the government bail-out of the Air New Zealand Board. On board an Air New Zealand flight sit members of the Air New Zealand Board. They wear Mickey Mouse hats. The world mourns the loss of their citizens in terrorist attacks on New York's twin towers. Flags fly at half mast. Trans-Tasman rivally continues over rugby, airlines and CER. NZ First leader, Winston Peters finds his 'super scare monger' suit in time for the next election. Uncle Sam tries to find a way of fighting terrorism while occupying the high moral ground. Osam bin Laden refuses to leave Afghanistan by plane. Shows Michael Cullen and the Labour Cabinet divided on whether or not to rescue Air New Zealand or to place it in statutory management. President George W Bush presents his complex response to fighting the terrorist network, divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Shows the twin towers in New York under attack with a written reminder on the nature of fanaticism. Shows the air and sea crammed with every type of combat vessel heading toward Afghanistan and asks the question, 'ok, now what?' A proposal for dealing with released, violent psychiatric patients. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1999 - 2001

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-142/160

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Unemployed fathers as role models to their sons, the pracitical side of genetic modification, 20th century sees out-of-control war, violence and death, United States aims to curb people's access to guns, election year sees 32,000 more operations being done, study shows teenages think about girls approx. every three minutes, marriages end in divorce due to the Rugby World Cup, parents supervise their children to school, move to replace cigarettes with cannabis, supermarkets selling to underage drinkers, kiwi dollar plummets to record low, family politics of winning, cricket bribery revealed, Black Caps perform poorly in cricket, children's language shocks, 600 Air Force staff made redundant, new complications of professional rugby, moves to ban children from movies that portray smoking, travellers face uncertain choice of destinations following world terrorist attacks. Original drawings for A-316-144, -152, -156 and -160 in separate folder and individually catalogued Quantity: 15 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 17 Feb 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: Davidson, Andrew Reid, 1932-; McFarland, Paulette, active 1998

Reference: OHInt-0428/05

Description: Reid Davidson was born in Gore in 1932. Gives details about his parents. Describes his house on Main Street, Gore, his schooling and reasons for leaving school and going to work in his father's shop. Mentions meeting his wife and their wedding. Discusses his family connection with the grocery business, his father working with McKibbon (McGibbon) and Company and starting his own business. Gives details of the shop's growth, some of the jobs, competition within the business, the mark up, suppliers, shop hours, uniform, layout and the gender divison of labour. Recalls his innovations, advertising, the delivery service, Saturday trading, the union and competition with New World and Woolworths. Gives reasons for closing down the business. Mentions the effects of the prohibition on Gore and details the location of the Gore brewery. Talks about his children and their interests. Interviewer(s) - Paulette McFarland Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2596.

Date: 14 December 2010

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-376

Description: A man representing 'ACC' tries to sneak off with his arms laden with banknotes. One of three judges says 'A difficult one - is his pathological meanness degenerative, or did he just have a nasty knock to the head?' Context: Refers to the decision "in principle" confirmed by Accident Compensation Corporation Minister Nick Smith to allow competition in the workplace insurance market following his lengthy consideration of a "stocktake" of the scheme begun last year but completed in June. The Government will seek a mandate from voters next year before allowing private insurers to compete with ACC for a slice of the $743 million a year workplace insurance market in a plan bitterly opposed by Labour, the Greens and unions. (NZ Herald 22 December 2010) Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 5 May 2006

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-090

Description: Shows Theresa Gattung, CEO of Telecom, and Dr Rod Deane, Chairman of Telecom, sitting in the Telecom Share Price boat which has sprung a leak. Helen Clark sits on the shore and tells them that she doesn't know where it came from but that she will assist them. Refers to the leak from Parliament about the unbundling of the Telecom network. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - MONDAY leader page 08 CARTOON 186mm x 133 pls scan, correct & send to PIX-ON-HAND [in penci] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 300 x 420mm

Date: 1987

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923- :[Cartoon bromides for the "Dominion" concerning the economy, animals and aviation. 1983 - 1987].

Reference: H-308-056

Description: Shows Air New Zealand and Ansett planes pointedly ignoring each other as they pass in the sky. Published in the Dominion on 2 February 1987. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signature] Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide, 97 x 130 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1989

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Twenty-four drawings and cartoons published in the Dominion Sunday Times and the New Zealand Listener ca 1976 to 1989]

Reference: B-056-020

Description: Two men at a cocktail party, both with enormous high domed heads, agressively comparing the dimensions of their heads. They may be intended to be academics. One has a glass of wine, one a cigar Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 307 x 504 mm

Date: 1986

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923- :[Cartoon bromides for the "Dominion" concerning the economy, animals and aviation. 1983 - 1987].

Reference: H-308-051

Description: Shows the Air New Zealand bird and the Ansett bird colliding beak to beak. Published in the Dominion on 3 July 1986. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signature] Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide, 85 x 127 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1989

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[36 original political cartoons, drawn for the New Zealand Listener. 1984-1990; and two photocopies].

Reference: C-128-020

Description: National Party politician Jim Bolger's face is represented in a series of squares. Winston Peters has knocked out one of Bolger's eyes and has popped up in the space left. Bolger is in black and white and Peters is in bright technocolour. Copy at H-511-020 Some of these cartoons may have been displayed in an exhibition curated by Roger Smith for the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust about 1990-1992 (or about 1986). Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, black ink, gouache, watercolour and pencil. 365 x 470 mm

Date: 1957

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-172

Description: Shows a row of sailors lined up on the deck of a ship. They are being judged in a competition for the longest beard by the captain. Another sailor is standing nearby with his back towards the captain and he is holding a mop and bucket. The mop is resting on his shoulder, partly obscuring his face. The captain has placed a "Winner" badge on his trousers and is walking away. Refers to the beard competition on the U.S. Transport Curtiss. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 180 x 280mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1967 - 1969

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :[Seventeen cartoons drawn for "Focus" magazine. 1967-1969].

By: Taylor, Alan, 1933-2016; Rennie, Heughan Bassett, 1945-

Reference: A-341-069

Description: Shows a company director kicking sand in the face of a thin bespectacled man reading. he is labelled Dept of Industries & Com. Originally designed for publication in "Focus" magazine, edited by Hugh Rennie. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Red biro drawing 77 x 62 mm. Provenance: Donated by Hugh Rennie in 1999.

Date: 1987

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-671

Description: Two people watch an advertisement on their television about the new additive for petrol which is supposed to make a car run more cheaply. The advertisement shows a gas station attendant filling a car with petrol and adding a product called 'competition'. Refers to the idea that competition is supposed to reduce petrol prices. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on thin card, 320 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1998

From: Fletcher, David, fl 1990s :Political cartoons published in the New Truth, March to July 1998

Reference: A-323-044

Description: A three-panel strip showing Jenny Shipley talking to Max Bradford, who appears to be working on something in the fuse box with a screwdriver. When Shipley asks if the switchboard has blown a fuse, Bradford clarifies it is the rest of the gang that has "blown a fuse", as expletives emit from the clubhouse and a spanner bounces off Bradford's head. Max Bradford was Minister of Energy, who introduced the Electricity Reforms in 1998/1999 and with it the start of the competitive electricity market in New Zealand, to which Labour and Alliance were initially opposed. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - D. Fletcher Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, felt pen and watercolour, 110 x 390 mm

Date: 1998

From: Fletcher, David, fl 1990s :Political cartoons published in the New Truth, March to July 1998

Reference: A-323-054

Description: A three-panel strip showing Jenny Shipley talking to Max Bradford, who appears to have given himself an electric shock inside the school generator. In the third panel he emerges charred and holding an axe. Max Bradford was Minister of Energy, who introduced the Electricity Reforms in 1998/1999 and with it the start of the competitive electricity market in New Zealand, to which Labour and Alliance were initially opposed. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - D. Fletcher Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, felt pen and watercolour, 120 x 390 mm