Labour (Obstetrics)

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: 30 Dec 1994

From: Birth stories oral history project

By: Archer, Christine Anne, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0084/01

Description: Christine Archer was born in Palmerston North on Christmas Day 1955. Talks about her family and happy childhood. Describes studying music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and marrying in 1977. Recalls becoming pregnant and some minor problems with the pregnancy. Details preparations, ante natal classes and the birth of her daughter at Hutt Hospital. Talks about the use of music therapy during labour. Describes breast feeding. Compares the pregnancy and birth of her son two years later. Talks about the positive and negative sides of parenting and her attitude to her own parents on becoming a parent. Mentions premenstrual tension. Talks about her work at the Wellington Early Intervention Trust and the Alexander Gillies Centre. Talks in depth about music therapy work and work with the disabled. Venue - Wellington : 1994 Interviewer(s) - Claire Loftus Nelson Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1427.

Date: 20 Mar 1994

From: Birth stories oral history project

By: Brown, Erica, 1968-

Reference: OHInt-0084/06

Description: Erica Brown was born in Hampshire in England on 5 November 1968. She is one of the daughters of Anne Harris who is also part of this oral history project. Describe emigrating to New Zealand as a child and settling in Feilding. Talks about her parents' fish and chip shop, schooling, leaving school in the fifth form and working at McDonalds. Describes marrying Stephen Brown and becoming pregnant. Talks about attending antenatal classes with her husband. Describes her three births in some depth, commenting on different styles of midwifery and her growth of confidence and knowledge after each birth. Discusses the effect of her parents' relationship on her own perception of family life and comments on her positive feelings towards motherhood. Describes her husband's feelings towards the births. Discusses breastfeeding, hospital routines, being induced and episiotomy. Venue - Feilding : 1994 Interviewer(s) - Claire Loftus Nelson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006262; OHC-006263; OHC-006264 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1429.

Date: 24 Jan 1995

From: Birth stories oral history project

By: Pantall, Maureen, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0084/07

Description: Maureen Pantall was born in Durban in South Africa on 29 June 1951. Outlines her family background including being related to James Watt Stevenson. Gives details of growing up in South Africa on her family's chicken farm where her mother was chief chicken sexer. Describes meeting New Zealander Grant Mitchell and coming to New Zealand with him in 1971. Talks about marriage, studying at university and becoming pregnant. Talks about wanting to avoid interference during the birth, using breathing learnt at ante natal classes and describes the birth as exhausting but positive. Describes two subsequent normal pregnancies, one of which involved induction. Discusses the relationship between birth and early childhood and the rest of a child's life. Talks about a fourth pregnancy, amniocentesis, home birth and being an older mother. Comments on the difficulty of finding fulltime work as an older women with four children. Venue - Wellington : 1995 Interviewer(s) - Claire Loftus Nelson Venue - Eastbourne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006271; OHC-006272; OHC-006273; OHC-006274 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1432.

Date: 1985

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-136-420

Description: The scene is the admissions desk of a hospital maternity ward. A man and his pregnant wife are standing at the desk which is covered with protest notices against the low pay which nurses receive. One of the notices says 'Bassett is a big meany' referring to the Minister of Health in the Labour government, Michael Bassett. The nurses are telling the man and his wife that they are "positively against labour". Extended Title - Maternity admissions. "Yes, we're positively against Labour here!" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 346 x 386 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.