Learning

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 13 Jan 2001

From: STRAW Umbrella Trust oral history project

Reference: OHInt-0564-1

Description: Describes receiving a Human Rights award in 1999 mainly for her work with the YWCA. Attributes her human rights involvement to a love of history from primary school. Mentions the role of teachers and family in this. Describes involvement in the Student Christian Movement (SCM) at university. Notes that this was during World War II and issues of whether to fight or be a pacifist were uppermost in people's minds. Describes being acting president of the SCM and mentions overseas branches. Talks about being asked to be the Secretary to the Committee of the International Students Service which was involved in bringing Jewish students from Europe. Recalls her scholarship to Oxford and ongoing involvement with the International Students Service including as secretary in Geneva. Describes the work done helping relocate students displaced by World War II in the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Talks about returning to New Zealand and working for the SCM going round schools. Talks about the beginnings of an awareness of the importance of the international role of Asia. Discusses working for the YWCA and a scheme established to help young Greek immigrant women. Describes a similar scheme helping orientate people from the Tokelau Islands into NZ society. Recalls the international YWCA Conference held in Australia in 1967. Comments that this was a good experience in terms of encouraging interdenominational contact. Describes travelling to overseas YWCA meetings including to Madagascar, the Congo (Zaire), Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Uganda, the challenges involved and the effect on the YWCA and similar organisations of politics in these countries. Talks about protests and appeals by the World Wide YWCA to help South Africa. Comments on the satisfaction of working with people of different religions and of working with a Christian organisation. Interviewer(s) - Ruth Greenaway Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2529.

Date: 2000 - 2002

By: National Library of New Zealand. School Library Service

Reference: Eph-E-NATIONAL-LIBRARY-2001-01

Description: A poster in Maori outlining the categories of the Dewey Decimal classification system for organising library books. Shows two Maori children pointing to the constellations in the night sky, as they hold two gannets. Other animals shown are dragonflies, owls, fantails and a dog. Leigh Takirau of National Library, School Services Auckland, which commissioned the poster, recalls the name of the artist as Mike, of Ngati Kahungungu descent. The title is translated to mean, "The amazing journey to knowledge". The animals depict traditional native species travelling upwards to Tane and the three baskets of knowledge. The children represent the children of today and the future. The word "ako" on the young boy's shirt means to learn. Other Titles - The amazing journey to knowledge Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 835 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Wadestown Public Library in 2005.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-8983-70

Description: Road safety training for school boys, circa 1950s-1960s. Shows boys, and a traffic officer, grouped around a model of streets and traffic. Identity of boys and officers unknown. Location also unknown, possibly Christchurch region. Photograph taken by George Weigel of Christchurch. Publication note - Published in New Zealand Free Lance, but date of publication unknown. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.2 x 20.7 cm

Date: [ca 1997]

From: Royal family : Papers (Te Whanau a Roera Hukiki Te Ahukaramu)

Reference: MS-Papers-6529-4

Description: Dissertation by Haami, subtitled `This is my book of written records' in which he writes an introduction describing his experiences in acquiring Maori knowledge especially from the Maaka collection, and applies this to his essay in which he writes of Maori preservation of their knowledge with particular reference to the impact of the missionaries and colonisation Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1977

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4175-025

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letter from Joan of South Brighton, Christchurch, to Fiona Baby; death notice for Lashford Hugh West; letters from Julian of Atiamuri; letter to Keith, probably Sinclair; note from Rose; letters from Alison and [?] Roland of Taradale; letter from Dianne and Denny on MV `Darro'; case history of an 11-year-old boy with specific learning difficulties; and part of letter from Kidman outlining her plays Quantity: 1 folder(s) (41 letters). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018365

Description: A teacher stands in front of her class of children, all of whom have an eyepad over one eye and tells the headmistress that 'We're trying to see if eye pads help us learn, head mistress.' Context: The teacher is confused; she has heard about iPads and has interpreted what she has heard as 'eye-pads'. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0309-F

Description: Images show scenes from a primary school, Te Hapua, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show scenes from inside a primary school in Te Hapua. The school children can be seen, sitting on the mat, reading, and working at a blackboard. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0404-F

Description: Images show scenes from Parikino Pa, Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show children attending the sole charge Maori District School. Children can be seen learning to tell the time using a clock on a blackboard. Also shows children socialising in the schoolyard. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0410-F

Description: Images show scenes from Parikino Pa, Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images consist of: - Students attending the sole charge Maori District School. - A woman and a toddler. The toddler is on a horse. - A person reading the newspaper on the veranda of a house. - A man and a child, sitting on a blanket, in a field. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0417-F

Description: Images show scenes from [Matahiwi?], Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show scenes from a local school. Children can be seen attending a sewing class, also shown are children playing on the monkey bars in the playground. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0402-F

Description: Images show scenes from Parikino Pa, Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show children at the sole charge Maori District School. They can be seen studying from books and writing on the blackboard. Frame 5 shows the teacher and his wife. In frames 9-12, Parekowhai. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0409-F

Description: Images show scenes from Parikino Pa, Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show children at the sole charge Maori District School. Groups of children can be seen attending the morning assembly and prayer. Also shown are children outside a house, playing with a dog. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0406-F

Description: Images show scenes from Parikino Pa, Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show children at the sole charge Maori District School. Groups of children are shown painting and sculpting with clay. Frames 5-8 include the teacher. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0403-F

Description: Images show scenes from Parikino Pa, Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show children at the sole charge Maori District School. Groups of children can be seen studying from books and writing on the blackboard. In frames 2-3, the teacher can be seen. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0407-F

Description: Images show scenes from Parikino Pa, Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show children at the sole charge Maori District School. Groups of children are shown painting and sculpting with clay. Frames 1-2 include the teacher. Also, frames 10-12 show scenes from a local shearing shed. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0416-F

Description: Images show scenes from [Matahiwi?], Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show scenes from a local school. Children can be seen doing school work, raising their hands to answer questions and sewing by hand. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0412-F

Description: Images show scenes from Parikino Pa, Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show a group of girls practising waiata a ring (action songs). Frame three shows the instructor leading the group. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 2005

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-101-012

Description: Caricature of Chief Executive of Te Wanganga o Aotearoa, Rongo Wetere. In the context of the Wananga's spending of government funds coming under scrutiny after a memo was leaked. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2006

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0001799

Description: Two workers are in the office of the new CEO of Fonterra, Craig Norgate. One of then holds two posters labelled 'Cheese' and 'Herd' and the other is busy pinning a third poster labelled 'Cow' to the wall. Each illustrated poster is intended to help learning. One of the workers tells the other that the posters are called visual learning aids. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).