Samuels, Dover Spencer Peneha (Hon), 1939-

Born 9 July 1939. Ngapuhi, Ngati Kuri. Labour list Member of Parliament for Te tai Tokerau, first elected 1996. Minister of Maori Affairs 1999-2000. Minister of State, Associate Minister of Tourism, for Economic Development, for Industry and Regional Development 2002-.

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Labour Party, British Petroleum House cleaners' dispute, youth rates campaign, and Erni...

Date: [ca 1975-1985]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Preston, Gaylene Mary, 1947-

Reference: PAColl-10045-4

Description: Photographs relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, ca 1980-2008. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Gaylene Preston, and the Evening Post newspaper. - Contains contact sheets relating to the New Zealand Labour Party Conference in 1983. Identified figures include: Stan Rodger, Michael Bassett, Helen Clark, Margaret Wilson, Helene Ritchie, David Caygill, David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Northy, Trevor de Cleene, Eddie Isbey, Frank O'Flynn, Dover Samuels, Jim Knox, Roger Douglas, Margaret Sheilds, Margaret Austin, and [Mike Williams?]. The series also features: Lange and Palmer speaking at the Federation of Labour conference in 1984; Ormond Wilson, photographed in his home on Hill Street ca 1983; and Fran Wilde and Jim Kebbell in a yacht protesting the visit of the USS Truxtun to Wellington as well as portraits of Tala [Clerens?]. One contact sheet also includes an image of baby Kathleen Kerr, daughter of union photographer Bob Kerr. - Includes prints of the Cleaners' Union dispute with Crothall and Company and British Petroleum. These feature the union picket at B P House, Wellington, with makeshift sleeping arrangements, placards, cooking, and protestors. Also contains a contact sheet with portraits of an unidentified man, B P House, and information sheets being handed out by protestors. - Youth pay rate campaign images feature: young protestors, some in school uniform, at Parliament with placards and costumes as well as an unidentified young speaker and Pat Kelly addressing the crowd; teenage Woolworth's workers photographed at their place of work; and a youth picket outside McDonalds. Also contains a contact sheet with some of the images detailed above, but also further portraits. - Contains series of images of caretaker Ernie Abbott's funeral. These feature: the Holden Kingswood hearse and pallbearers (including Pat Kelly and Ken Douglas) leading the funeral cortege through the streets of Wellington between Trades Hall and the Town Hall; and the funeral ceremony at the Town Hall, including mourners, pallbearers, and eulogies being delivered. Also contains a contact sheet of portraits of Abbott (and others of an unidentified woman) taken for the Cleaners' Union in the early eighties, and images of Trades Hall after the bombing that killed Abbott. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records - To Ephemera Collection - four negative cases for printing orders (one glacine, three paper) at Eph-A-PHOTO-1970s.

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Evans, Malcolm 1947-:Twenty-five cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald during 2000.

Date: 2000

By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: H-643-001/025

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Politicians response to digital television, matchfixing in cricket, community responsibility for child abuse, Maori support of disgraced Maori MP and lack of support for abused Maori children, Fiji - banana dictatorship, Middle East peace process, concern over disparity between NZ and Australian defence forces reimbursement for serving in East Timor, Queen Mother celebrates her 100th birthday, space exploration, world opinion swings againsgt Israel's heavy-handed tactics, ACC payouts in Australia, cost cutting measures in the NZ Police Force, silencing Dover Samuels and social policy critics, high cost of yachting's Viaduct Basin, state-owned enterprises over-spend on conferences, British royals have a go at the tabloid press, Mark Todd's chances of selection damaged following sex and drug scandal, South Africa's reluctance to comment on Zimbabwe, terrorism in NZ? or just plain violence, Human genetic secrets uncovered, 'closing the gaps' policy, May Day and workers' rights, Fiji embroiled in racism, the price of the American Presidential election and recounts, Prime Minister announces she not going to attend Waitangi on Waitangi Day. Quantity: 25 photocopy/ies photocopies of computer print-outs, A4 size.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of computer print-outs.

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First Labour/Alliance cabinet meeting - Photographs taken by John Nicholson

Date: 13 Dec 1999

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1999/3910-F

Description: The first Labour/Alliance cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room on the tenth floor of the Beehive, on the 13th of December 1999. Foreground: Prime Minister Helen Clark, Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton. Around the table, from left of Clark: Michael Cullen, Phil Goff, Sandra Lee, Trevor Mallard, Margaret Wilson, Matt Robson, George Hawkins, Paul Swain, Mark Gosche, Laila Harre, Marian Hobbs, Mark Burton, Lianne Dalziel, Pete Hodgson, Dover Samuels, Jim Sutton, Annette King, Steve Maharey. Photographs taken by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. See also: a listing of Cabinet Ministers and their portfolios in the Evening Post newspaper, Thursday 9 December, 1999, page 21. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

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Scott, Tom, 1947- :80 cartoon bromides published in the Evening Post between 1 Septembe...

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

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Scott, Tom, 1947- :74 cartoon bromides published in the Evening Post between 1 May 2000...

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-618-001/074

Description: 74 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include National Party style ('radical conservatism'), political aspects of the ban on native forest logging on the West Coast, bribery and corruption in international cricket, softening of the macho image of Super 12 Players, the fatal shooting Steven Wallace by police in Waitara, email viruses, underage drinking, tax on cigarettes, greenhouse gas emission control, the entrenched position of Christine Rankin, Head of WINZ, television presenter Paul Holmes, the sale of the cell phone spectrum to Maori, Americas' Cup yachtsmen, the rebel coup in Fiji, prisoners' rights, All Black rugby, Maori activisim and cultural sensitivites, the falling New Zealand dollar, falling business confidence, the Employments Contracts Act, the legal staus of cannabis, the Coalition between the Labour Party and Alliance, the flight of underpaid and overworked young doctors from New Zealand, unseasonable weather, the meeting between the Presidents of North and South Korea, the Budget, the Government's 'Closing the Gaps' policy, underfunding of the army, muck-raking by ACT politician Richard Prebble, drugs in sport, the takeover by Qantas of Ansett New Zealand, political scandal and the sacking of Dover Samuels as Minister of Maori Affairs, child abuse, dangerous driving by truck drivers, the conflict over Israel, the dangers of excusing away mental illness, Helen Clark's leadership style, alcohol and sportsmen, railway accidents, republicism and Tandor Nancos of the Green Party, the Bledisloe Cup, cannabis use, forest fires in the United States, extended sittings in Parliament, the Employment Relations Bill, speed limits, the loss of Kursk, the Russian submarine, defence expenditure, controversy over Maori domestic violence, rising petrol prices. Quantity: 74 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

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Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :53 original cartoons published in the Dominion between 1990 and...

Date: 1990 - 2002

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: A-366-001/053

Description: Cartoons on individuals involved in political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. 009-014 part of a strip on public reaction to politicians; 003-006 a series on Christine Rankin. Quantity: 53 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen drawings on paper, sizes vary.

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Waerea, James 1940- :35 cartoons on political and social issues published by NZ Truth b...

Date: 2000

By: Waerea, James, 1940-2019; NZ Truth (Newspaper)

Reference: H-617-001/035

Description: Topics include New Zealand government and politics, the attempted coup in Fiji, smoking, preservation of the environment, marae protocol and women speakers, the Mark Todd cocaine allegation, youth sex and contraceptives, the Dover Samuel affair, All Black strategy, overworked young hospital doctors, Jim Anderton's proposal for a 'Peoples' Bank', the prowess of All Black Jonah Lomu, the relationship of the New Zealand Labour and Alliance Parties in the Coalition, aborigines and the Sydney Olympics, the Reserve Bank, emigration from New Zealand, marijuana use, halloween, David Tua's attempt at the World Heavyweight championship, petrol pricing, the proposal for a common currency between New Zealand and Australia. Quantity: 35 photocopy/ies cartoon .. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

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Tremain, Garrick 1941-:19 cartoon photocopies published in the Otago Daily Times betwee...

Date: 2000 - 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-632-001/019

Description: Topics include US President George W. Bush's verbal ineptitude and his attitude to 'commies', former Minister of Maori Affairs Dover Samuel's relationship with Prime Minister Helen Clark, Member of Parliament Tau Henare's changing political allegiances, delays on the Cook Strait ferries, controversy over Minister of Consumer Affairs Phillida Bunkle's official residence in Wellington, Christmas presents, Santa Claus's allegedly 'illegal' behaviour, government expenditure on eradication of the varroa bee mite and on the arts, controversy over an advertisement using a haka, Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton's attempts to establish a 'Peoples' Bank', buying babies by internet, bonuses given to S.O.E. employees, legalisation of marijuana, kaumatua and Maori greviances, Helen Clark's policy towards Waitangi Day, the formation of a new Maori political party by Derek Fox, Helen Clark's contrasting speeches supporting entrepreneurs and against exploitive businessmen, and promotion of sport in schools. Quantity: 19 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

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Tremain, Garrick 1941-:35 cartoon photocopies published in the Otago Daily Times betwee...

Date: 2000

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-619-001/035

Description: 35 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. Topics include golf and rugby, the weather, National member of Parliament Murray McCully stirring up scandals, Prime Minister Helen Clark's pronouncements and policy on golden handshakes for S.O.E. executives, political mud-slinging, high petrol prices, US Presidential candidate George W. Bush's record in capital punishment, the Employment Relations Bill and the Labour government's response to public opinion, good faith bargaining, the police and sensitivity to maori culture, domestic violence among Maori, Helen Clark's leadership style, the Russian submarine disaster, the falling New Zealand dollar, junior doctors leaving New Zealand, Maori grievances, the treatment of aborigines in Australia, emigration from New Zealand, the use of the word 'holocaust' by the Associate Minister of Maori Affairs, the Waitangi Fisheries Commission, prison conditions, Green Party protests against free trade, payouts to gang members. Quantity: 35 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

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Fletcher, David, 1952- :"Dover! Come in and join the gang again." "Me?" "Take that seat...

Date: 2001

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :[15 cartoons published in New Zealand Truth and TV Extra between December 2000 and April 2001.]

Reference: A-316-033

Description: Helen Clark inviting Dover Samuels to return to the Labour caucus. Samuels is suspicious about the offer. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Strip cartoons, ink and marker pens (colour), 125 x 394 mm.

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Hubbard, Jim, 1949- :"Look out when I uncover the shadowy figures who caused all my tro...

Date: 2000

From: Hubbard, Jim 1949-:47 original cartoons published variously in the Dominion, Bay of Plenty Times, Hawke's Bay Today, Southland Times during 2000.

Reference: A-350-054

Description: Shows an angry Dover Samuels casting a long shadow on the wall behind him. In 2000, Samuels was Minister of Maori Affairs, but resigned in June of that year pending an investigation into alleged sex crimes committed before he entered politics, from which he was later cleared. The cartoon suggests that Samuels was the cause of his own troubles Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Jim Hubbard; Verso - top right - Dominion 10/8/00 [in biro] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and marker pen drawing, 230 x 310 mm on sheet 300 x 420 mm

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Fletcher, David fl 1990s-2000s, 33 cartoon originals, published in NZ Truth and TV Extr...

Date: 2000

By: Fletcher, David, 1952-

Reference: A-341-186/218

Description: 33 strip cartoons, set in a school context, commenting on general social and political issues by David Fletcher. Topics include honorifics, pokemon, bank charges, Jim Anderton's proposal for a 'Peoples' Bank', the Dover Samuels affair, contraception, health reforms, the falling New Zealand dollar, political party polls, political demonstrations by members of the Green Party, the use of the word 'holocaust' in a Maori context by Turiana Turia and Sandra Lee, leadership of the National Party, morale of the Labour Party, youth crime rates, electricity charges. Quantity: 33 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Coloured felt tip pen on card, 102 x 309 mm

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Personal papers

Date: Aug-Dec 2000

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8752-041

Description: Papers re launch of Janet Frame biography; application to be a marriage celebrant; obituaries; preparations to depart on the Fulbright scholarship; other proposed biographical projects; correspondence with family, friends, colleagues and publishers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Evans, Malcolm, 1947- :Meeting to protest the treatment of disgraced politician. Meetin...

Date: 2000

From: Evans, Malcolm 1947-:Twenty-five cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald during 2000.

Reference: H-643-004

Description: Public protest is focused on the ining of a Labour Party politicician who was disciplined by the party for having inappropriate sexual relations with someone under his care rather than of the treatment of abused children which is the most significant social issue communities are dealing with at present. Extended Title - 'Hooey!' Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies photocopy of computer print-out, A4 size.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy of computer print-out.

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Slane, Christopher, 1957-:Last year we had the'H'-word, the 'D'-person and the 'G'-Poli...

Date: 2001

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-:26 cartoons published in the New Zealand Listener between 6 January and 30 June 2001.

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: H-676-002

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark reacting to public controversies over actions of some Labour government members and the "Closing the gaps" policy. Extended Title - Holocaust, Dover, Gaps Quantity: 1 magazine clipping. Physical Description: A4 size page, colour. Image is approximately 108 x 165 mm.

Manuscript

General correspondence - S

Date: 1998-2003

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8752-348

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Hubbard, Jim, 1949- :"I knew it was a mistake for Dover to get behavioural advice from ...

Date: 2000

From: Hubbard, Jim 1949-:47 original cartoons published variously in the Dominion, Bay of Plenty Times, Hawke's Bay Today, Southland Times during 2000.

Reference: A-350-052

Description: Shows Dover Samuels with his back to the viewer, undoing his trousers and making ready to pull them down. The reference to Bob Harvey comes from an incident in 1999 when, as Labour Party President, Harvey lowered his shorts and yelled an obscenity during an argument in public with a long-time adversary. In 2000, Samuels was Minister of Maori Affairs, but resigned in June of that year pending an investigation into alleged sex crimes committed before he entered politics, from which he was later cleared. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Jim Hubbard; Verso - top right - Dominion and BOP. 29/7/00 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and marker pen drawing, 230 x 315 mm on sheet 300 x 420 mm

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Hubbard, Jim, 1949- :"I saw a flying saucer piloted by two moas who said the PM would s...

Date: 2000

From: Hubbard, Jim 1949-:47 original cartoons published variously in the Dominion, Bay of Plenty Times, Hawke's Bay Today, Southland Times during 2000.

Reference: A-350-056

Description: Shows two men drinking in a pub. One tells a tall tale to the other, who only finds it hard to believe that Helen Clark would sack Tariana Turia - presumably over Turia's use of the word "holocaust", to describe the impact of European settlement on Maori, which was made in a speech to the NZ Psychological Society Conference 2000 at Waikato University on Tuesday 29 August 2000. She was told by Helen Clark not to repeat the incident Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Jim Hubbard; Verso - top right - Dominion 4/9/00 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and marker pen drawing, 230 x 315 mm on sheet 300 x 420 mm

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[Hodgson, Trace], 1958- :"The operation was a success. I've just managed to remove and ...

Date: 2000

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[17 original political and social cartoons drawn for Metro magazine from January to November 2000]

Reference: A-129-105

Description: Cartoon shows a caricature portrait of prime minister Helen Clark in surgeon's apron and hat, beside and operating table on which a covered body is lying; it is likely that of Labour politician Dover Samuels with a cowboy hat on top of the head end. Helen Clark holds a bloodstained knife and her clothing, the floor and the blanket over the patient, are covered with blood. Dover Samuels lost his caucus position in 2000, pending an investigation into alleged sex crimes committed before he entered politics. The police later cleared Samuels of all charges, and Samuels alleged that the accusations had political motivations. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 48 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and gouache, on sheet 420 x 297 mm.

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Fletcher, David, 1952- :[15 cartoons published in New Zealand Truth and TV Extra betwee...

Date: 2001

By: Fletcher, David, 1952-; NZ Truth (Newspaper)

Reference: A-316-021/035

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand politics and politicians. Quantity: 15 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: 15 strip cartoons, ink and marker pens (colour), 125 x 394 mm.