Agriculture - Economic aspects

Date: 1900-1929

By: Campbell, Thomas, 1854-1940

Reference: MSY-5340

Description: Ledger from Tom Campbell's farm at Karori recording milk sales, rent and other transactions (1900-1929) Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Presented to the Karori Historical Society by Miss Kathleen Campbell, Tom Campbell's daughter, in 1984

Date: Sep-Oct 1985 - 01 Sep 1985 - 31 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Bennett, Florence Evelyn, 1916-2000; Bennett, Thomas, 1910-1993

Reference: OHInt-0053/10

Description: Florrie Bennett was born in Nelson in 1915 or 1916. Describes being raised as a child to constant hard work in Lower Moutere in the 1920s. Talks about not looking forward to the school holidays because of the hard work involved. Describes `hidings'and a tough upbringing in terms of discipline. Mentions that she turned to her mother. Gives details about her brothers and sisters, working in orchards and working for the Hendersons of Motueka and Mrs Savage of Nelson. Recalls receiving no pay for working for her family before she was married. Tom Bennett was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1910. Describes emigrating to New Zealand in 1930 determined to get his own farm and working at Bainham before putting a deposit on a dairy farm in Gardiners Valley in 1933. Describes working at the Harakeke Mill and doing horse contract work for extra income. Talks about being forced off it in 1939 as a result of being unable to keep up payments. Explains why his debt was not wiped by the Mortgage Adjustment Act at the end of the Depression. Talks about marrying Florrie in 1936 and their hard work together. Describes very basic facilities including the need to carry water to the house. Talks about Florrie's work on the farm and also off the farm, including work picking hops. Talks about having babies, breastfeeding and looking after children while continuing with farm work and housework. Describes going to Kaihoka Station to work after losing their Gardiners Valley farm. Talks about the social gap between the boss and the workers. Describes working for John (Jack) Haldane at Bainham and the cream can war at Bainham. Talks about saving money, working at the Cobb hydro site and buying a farm at Hamama in 1946. Describes hard work on the farm and the purchase of the Onekaka farm in 1962. Notes work done on the farm to improve its pakihi soil. Talks about Florrie's role in the decision-making, their partnership, regrets and attitudes to and philosophies on life. Venue - Takaka : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Bennetts' home at Onekaka Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002927; OHC-002928; OHC-002929; OHC-002930; OHC-002931; OHC-002932; OHC-002933; OHC-002934 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 566.

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: [Duppa, George] 1817-1888 :[Sketch- and account-book / George Duppa]

Reference: E-075-006

Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 228 x 187 mm

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: [Duppa, George] 1817-1888 :[Sketch- and account-book / George Duppa]

Reference: E-075-012/016

Description: Accounts relating to felling, reaping, cartage, threshing, fencing, etc Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 5 pages, 228 x 187 mm

Date: 1936 - 1940

From: Various artists :[Original and printed political cartoons by A S Paterson, John H Gilmour ("Pax"), N H McIntyre ("M"), Loney, Charles Haines, Morrison, Jayem, Barns Graham, and others. 1935-1940s].

By: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968

Reference: A-129-029

Description: Cartoon shows a landscape of constant rain, coming down from a sky labelled "Socialism", and flooding a farm area with a lake labelled "In creased farming costs". The land of "Primary Industry" is gradually being swamped. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 278 x 397 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: [Duppa, George] 1817-1888 :[Sketch- and account-book / George Duppa]

Reference: E-075-019/021

Description: Three pages of farming accounts relating to the growing of potatoes and wheat Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 3 pages, 228 x 187 mm

Date: 1986

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Original cartoons drawn in 1986, mainly for the New Zealand Listener].

Reference: C-133-128

Description: Shows a farming couple with a son and small baby, standing in a field. They wonder how they will find parking in a suburban house for three cars and a Landrover, and realise their son would have to go to a state school. This cartoon was published in the New Zealand Listener on 24 May 1986. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 565 x 210 mm, on sheet 640 x 348 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2003.

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[25 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in September and October, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-260

Description: Cartoon shows a New Zealand farmer in a black singlet, kneeling with a bowl beside a table where a plump "EC" (European Community) figure is eating a huge pile of "agriculture". The farmer exclaims over the large size of the crumbs that are flicked into his bowl. This implies that New Zealand farmers will suffer from the development of the Economic Community, and that overseas trade minister Mike Moore has some responsibility for this. Other Titles - September Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 180 x 270 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1945

From: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992 :[Scrapbook of cartoon clippings. ca 1940-1945].

Reference: E-605-q-007

Description: A cartoon showing Michael Joseph Savage and Walter Nash in a radio broadcasting studio. Savage is talking into the microphone while Nash sits behind a desk. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Newsclipping 150 x 215 mm stuck into lined exercise book

Date: 1936 - 1940

From: Various artists :[Original and printed political cartoons by A S Paterson, John H Gilmour ("Pax"), N H McIntyre ("M"), Loney, Charles Haines, Morrison, Jayem, Barns Graham, and others. 1935-1940s].

By: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968

Reference: A-129-030

Description: Cartoon Walter Nash compaigning on a soapbox, while a watersider and a farmer debate what is social justice; that is, what is a normal working week and suitable pay. The farmer has much longer working hours and less income. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 294 x 318 mm.

Date: 1970

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

Reference: B-137-094

Description: Shows three vignettes: Keith Holyoake singing "Show me! (If there's a way out of this mess, if there's a way, Show me!") - with an answering chors of "Show me!" from tax payer, Industry, Housewife and Fixed Income. Farmer singing "Oh promise me" ("Oh promise me, protected we shall be, when Britain goes into the EEC") And the song most suited to the spirit of the times - "More, more" - sung by Unions, Manufacturers and Robert Muldoon with his Loan Plans. Other Titles - New Zealand Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 265 x 322 mm, on sheet 320 x 391 mm.

Date: 1936 - 1940

From: Various artists :[Original and printed political cartoons by A S Paterson, John H Gilmour ("Pax"), N H McIntyre ("M"), Loney, Charles Haines, Morrison, Jayem, Barns Graham, and others. 1935-1940s].

By: Paterson, Alan Stuart, 1902-1968

Reference: A-129-046

Description: Cartoon Walter Nash compaigning on a soapbox, while a watersider and a farmer debate what is social justice; that is, what is a normal working week and suitable pay. The farmer has much longer working hours and less income. A printed copy of the original cartoon at A-129-030 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 137 x 167 mm, on sheet 230 x 293 mm.

Date: 1961

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

Reference: B-137-429

Description: Cartoon shows two farmers talking. The one on the right stands beside his tractor cheerfully rolling a cigarette, and suggesting that farmers will not be so overworked once Britain joins the European Common Market. The farmer on the left, loading milk churns on a trailer, does not find this comforting. Other Titles - In the mean time the farming community would have to carry the load, but ultimately a solution to the labour shortage on farms would be found - Minister of Agriculture at Oamaru, May 27 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 205 x 255 mm, on sheet 255 x 305 mm.

Date: 1935 - 1940

From: Various artists :[Original and printed political cartoons by A S Paterson, John H Gilmour ("Pax"), N H McIntyre ("M"), Loney, Charles Haines, Morrison, Jayem, Barns Graham, and others. 1935-1940s].

By: Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951

Reference: A-129-043

Description: Shows a despairing farmer standing ankle deep in water under a rain cloud labelled "Labour administration". A sign reading "The faerm" is sinking under the waters on "Rising costs". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, on sheet 240 x 393 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: [Duppa, George] 1817-1888 :[Sketch- and account-book / George Duppa]

Reference: E-075-008

Description: Accounts relating to construction of farm buildings (bricklaying, carpentry, slaughter house, etc) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 228 x 187 mm

Date: 1947 - 1949

By: Federated Farmers of New Zealand; Pennon Press (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-FF-1947-01

Description: A pamphlet to farmers, appealing for Federated Farmers to receive increased finance. It is required to beat the drift to urban industries. Urges farmers to contribute to the Defence Fund. Figures concerning the amount of funds withheld from farmers for the year 1945 is shown, together with the value of farm production in 1946 - 112 million pounds (60% of New Zealand's total production). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of pamphlet, 210 x 282 mm, folded to 210 x 94 mm.

Date: 1964

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-133-276

Description: Two men are standing on the edge of a lake labelled 'budget' looking at the lake level marker which shows the lake level is well down. One, dressed as a rural businessman in collar, tie, tweed jacket, waistcoat and heavy trousers comments to the farmer beside him who is wearing a slouch hat, an open bush shirt with the sleeves rolled up and heavy trousers and is smoking a cigarette, that the water level [amount of money or assistance available to the rural community under the government budget] is still very low. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil 290 x 380 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2006

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0002122

Description: Caricature of Charlie Pedersen, President of Federated Farmers of New Zealand, Inc. He is shown leaning against a fence with cows in the background. In the news because he believes that environmental issues are endangering the potential for New Zealand's economy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1937

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).

By: NZ Truth (Newspaper)

Reference: A-313-1-027

Description: A large farmer is demanding 'More - more - more - more' from New Zealand prime minister Michael Savage who, as a chef, is serving from a large pot of 'government assistance stew'. The farmer is pushing aside a small old man representing 'the rest of us' who protests 'Hey - don't forget that you're not the only one who must eat.' Extended Title - Although the farmers have been spoon-fed for years by successive governments, they never seem satisfied - news item. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy from newspaper.

Date: 13 April 2015

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: New Zealand farmers' weekly (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0031353

Description: A farming couple struggling with their overflowing stack of bills. Refers to the biggest hazard on the farm being compliance and wages. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).