Palm oil industry

Date: 1894-1928

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1139

Description: Comprise correspondence with Lord Leverhulme and others 1904-1927, reports on island properties and trading stations, including Captain Langdale's report to the Pacific Islands Company on the `Rob Roy' expedition to the Solomon Islands 1902; incorporation documents and financial records relating to Levers Plantations and purchase of Solomon Islands land, accounts and other papers of related companies, and photographs. Source of title - Transcribed An enthusiastic supporter of the copra industry in the Pacific, Meek purchased 51,000 acres of freehold land in the Solomon Islands for Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd from Captain O Svenson in 1905 for copra growing. Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMBU, 1999

Date: 2021-2022

From: Chinniah, Abhi, 1992-: Material relating to 'Light Skin Dark Skin' and 'A Migrant's Path' exhibitions

Reference: MSX-10207

Description: Bound volume by Abhi Chinniah titled 'A Migrant's Path' containing material displayed as part of her exhibition of the same name. Includes photographic portraits by Abhi Chinniah and essays by Abhi Chinniah, Neelam O'Neill, Weiling Law, Jasmin Singh, Sophie-Ann (Soph) Chin, Krishna Ogwaro, Gaia Chinniah, and Sunaina Kamath. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 2020-2021

From: Chinniah, Abhi, 1992-: Material relating to 'Light Skin Dark Skin' and 'A Migrant's Path' exhibitions

By: Chin, Sophie-Anne, active 2021; Chinniah, Gaia, active 2021; Kamath, Sunaina, active 2020; Law, Weiling, active 2021; O'Neill, Neelam, 1993?-; Ogwaro, Krishna, active 2021; Singh, Jasmin, active 2021

Reference: fMS-Papers-12809

Description: Printouts of essays created for 'Light Skin Dark Skin' and 'A Migrant's Path' exhibitions by Abhi Chinniah. Essays by Gaia Chinniah, Neelam O'Neill, Sunaina Kamath, and Jasmin Singh were written for 'Light Skin Dark Skin'. Essays by Krishna Ogwaro, Soph Chin, and Weiling Law were written for 'A Migrant's Path'. Also includes an essay by Abhi Chinniah and a title card poster for 'Light Skin Dark Skin'. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 11 sheets.. Physical Description: Text printed on card or paper. Six A4 sheets and five A3 sheets.

Date: 1923-1934

By: Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd

Reference: Micro-MS-0424

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (3 vols, ca 300 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1902-1994

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1121

Description: Legal papers re land 1902-1986; managing director's reports on Solomon Islands Estates 1941; Kolombungara Cocoa Project 1954-1955; annual reports 1961-1971; managing director's monthly reports 1961-1967; briefing papers, reports and notes for visitors 1974-1989; development plans 1978-1994; annual estimates 1981-1992; negotiations with Solomon Islands National Union of Workers 1982-1986, land surveys, Pavuvu 1964-1967, directors' minutes 1982-1985. Papers of Levers Pacific Timbers Ltd, files on the Kolombaranga Forest 1962-1979, and industrial negotiations; Banika club, constitution and visitors' book 1959-1992. Source of title - Transcribed Levers Pacific Ltd was formed in 1902 to acquire coconut properties in the Pacific to supply copra to the Lever Brothers Ltd mill in Sydeny. After 1971 the company sold its production through the Solomon Islands Copra Board. Levers Pacifics Plantations Pty Ltd, formed in 1928 after acquiring the the original company, was incorporated in 1975, and changed its name to Lever Solomons Ltd in 1980 to form a joint venture company between the Solomon Islands government and Unilever. Quantity: 10 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1977

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-135-287

Description: This cartoon features three scenes of prime minister Muldoon attempting to cut down a palm oil nut encouraged by one of the locals. He says he must be slipping because at home he slashed four subsidies with one blow Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 305 x 380 mm

Date: 2009

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0011764

Description: Shows an enormous orangutan in the Auckland Zoo. Text reads 'monkey puzzle' and suggests that 'Ned' has a dilemma and finds it hard to choose between saving his native rain forests and being able to resist a 400g block of Cadbury's dairy milk chocolate which tastes so much better than a bunch of bananas. Refers to the decision by Auckland Zoo to pull Cadbury's products from their shelves because of Cadbury's decision to add palm oil to its chocolate. Palm oil production devastates rainforest in Southeast Asia thus depriving orang utan of their habitat. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0011804

Description: In five frames a man informs Prime Minister John Key that increased prices will mean people drink less alcohol, palm oil in chocolate will result in fewer people eating it, folic acid in bread will not eat it and tobacco companies are making cigarettes cheaper so more people will smoke. John Key is pleased as all this news will solve the obesity problem and his informer comments that the Greens won't need to do a thing. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012367

Description: A woman reads a newspaper report about a dangerous palm kernel cargo protest by Greenpeace that endangers lives. A television programme delights at the arrival of the godwits in the South Island that herald the advent of spring and a man passing by comments to himself 'so do the dimwits'. Refers to the arrival of the godwits that fly from their breeding grounds in Alaska and arrive in New Zealand in late September, during the spring, to fatten up over the southern hemisphere summer. The reference to the protest is about Greenpeace protesting against Fonterra's importation of palm kernels for use as stock feed because of its role in the destruction of rainforests, predominantly in Malaysia and Indonesia. Up to 14 Greenpeace protesters boarded the Hong Kong-registered freighter East Ambition, lashing themselves to cranes and the anchor, preventing the ship from docking. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0011803

Description: In five frames a group of corporate managers try to solve the problem of how to retain the habitat of orangutans while at the same time getting the palm oil they need for their chocolate. In the end they decide to battery farm the orangutans because apparently the fat of apes improves the taste of the product as much as palm oil so in this way they will save the tropical forest habitat of the orangutan at the same time as increasing numbers of orangutan. There is a scandal because Cadbury's have decided to add palm oil to their chocolate which endangers the rain forest habitat of orang-utan in Southeast Asia. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0013995

Description: The cartoon shows an orangutan hanging from a tree. In the lower right corner is a cake of 'Dove' soap. The cartoon laments the plight of the orangutan as his rain forest habitat disappears, transformed into palm oil plantations to be made into soap and other products. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0026297

Description: Cartoon shows a man with a pen and paper, suspended by a hook over water. Hanging from another hook is a large net full of sacks labelled 'PKE'. Text reads 'News; Fed. Farmers will inspect the unloading of PKE at the Port of Tauranga - if they've finished calving'. Palm kernel expeller (PKE) is a waste by-product of palm oil production imported into New Zealand as supplementary feed for cattle. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003-2011

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MSDL-1528

Description: Files relating to food issue campaigns, including A1 and A2 milk, save the bees, aspartame, food advertising, buy local, food additivies, food prices, palm oil, school food, Healthy Eating Healthy Action (HEHA), folic acid. Includes reports, flyers, articles, leaflets, letters, policy notes, media releases, nutritional tables. Also includes proposal for environmental standards for telecommunications facilities. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to library within a folder of files shared by Green Party members called "Common Folder Greens/Food" Quantity: 97 Electronic document(s).

Date: 2020-2021

From: Chinniah, Abhi, 1992-: Material relating to 'Light Skin Dark Skin' and 'A Migrant's Path' exhibitions

By: Chin, Sophie-Anne, active 2021; Chinniah, Gaia, active 2021; Kamath, Sunaina, active 2020; Law, Weiling, active 2021; O'Neill, Neelam, 1993?-; Ogwaro, Krishna, active 2021; Singh, Jasmin, active 2021

Reference: MSDL-5553

Description: Essays created for 'Light Skin Dark Skin' and 'A Migrant's Path' exhibitions by Abhi Chinniah. Essays by Gaia Chinniah, Neelam O'Neill, Sunaina Kamath, and Jasmin Singh were written for 'Light Skin Dark Skin'. Essays by Krishna Ogwaro, Soph Chin, and Weiling Law were written for 'A Migrant's Path'. Also includes an essay by Abhi Chinniah and a 'No photography' poster displayed in 'A Migrant's Path' exhibition. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Files delivered to the Library in a digital folder called 'Essays'. Quantity: 9 Electronic document(s).

Date: 1925-1937

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Lever Brothers Ltd

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1650

Description: Arranged by subsidiary companies, the ledger sets out the weekly sales of each of the principal Lever products, including Sunlight soap, Rinso, Lux, Monkey Brand scouring and Sunlight oil cake Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (1 volume). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1986

Date: 1899-1927

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount of, 1851-1925

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1642-1649

Description: Papers selected with reference to the Lever Brothers' interests in Australia, the Pacific and New Zealand Quantity: 8 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.