Whisky

Date: 1990 - 2002

Reference: A-366-133/179

Description: Cartoons on electoral issues, MMP, drugs, alcohol, smoking, computers, banks and cars relating to political and social issues in New Zealand and overseas. 146-149 a series on petrol prices. Quantity: 47 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen drawings on paper, sizes vary.

Date: 1993

From: Grace, Shirley, 1949-2000 :[Sketchbook. 1991-1994].

Reference: E-603-059

Description: Shows a profile of poet Hone Tuwhare lying back and playing a clarinet. Other Titles - 15 August 1993 Extended Title - from her Sketchbook 1991-1994, page 59. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon and wash drawing on page, 134 x 215 mm.

Date: 1998

Reference: H-501-001/021

Description: Shows the race for the rural vote with National in the lead, followed by Act and Labour in the rear. Comment on Paul Holmes seeking to be Mayor of Auckland while retaining his nightly TV show. All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick retires from rugby - a tribute. Shows the tension between Winston Peters and Bill Birch. Shows the only ones winning from the Melbourne docks picket are the lawyers. John Luxton explains why New Zealand should phase out tariffs ahead of the rest of the world. A guy at the pub suggests introducing a work for the cabinet salary scheme would have more effect than a work for the dole scheme. Pol Pot is met in Hell by Hitler and Stalin. Politicians lobby to a near empty hall. The public favour paying for their televised sport rather than pay more on their Broadcasting Licence fee to get free to air sports. Paul Holmes agrees with himself that he would make an outstanding Mayor for Auckland. Helen Clark shows a growing obsession with the National leader, Jenny Shipley. Max Bradford sees the benefits of splitting up ECNZ. A toast to the Northern Ireland peace deal. Graham Latimer calls for Maori to get superannuation at age 50. Winston Peters thinks that informed public servants should not have any say in the debate over splitting ECNZ. Winston Peters tries to reassure New Zealanders they have nothing to fear about the Japanese economy committing hara kiri. Outbreak of crytoporidiosis linked to public swimming pools. Jenny Shipley and Winston Peters wear the defeat over the Government's referendum proposal on Auckland's local body assets. Money considerations guide surgical decisions in New Zealand hospitals. The elderly have the national superannuation surcharge removed. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Sizes vary slightly, the average cartoon frame being approximately 14 x 20 cm.

Date: 22 May 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: McGowan, Terence Alexander, 1913-2002; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-

Reference: OHInt-0428/14

Description: Chappie McGowan was born in Invercargill in 1913. Describes how his father worked at the paper mill for fifty six years. Talks about his mother being Presbyterian, becoming Catholic when she married his father and his parents having strong religious views. Notes they did not oppose alcohol and they and Chappie made home brew. Describes how Mataura was in a `dry' area until prohibition was voted out. Mentions making elderberry wine, parsnip wine and beer. Talks about `Waimahaka swamp juice' and Mr Enright. Mentions Mr Enright's whisky was delivered to the rabbit sheds where he was foreman. Describes heavy fines and jail sentences for making Hokonui whisky. Comments on the role of Customs rather than the police in bringing charges. Discusses the influence of the Depression and the war on the popularity of Hokonui. Contends that people were in it to make money. Describes how Hokonui was sometimes delivered in milk cans and `Waimahaka swamp juice' was delivered by the rabbit lorry. Mentions the closest pub was at Mandeville and locals would hire a taxi to the pub. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Photocopies of photos of Chappie as a boy, young man and with his wife Nellie McGowan Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2606.

Date: 21 May 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: Hill, Ballington Everard Richard, 1926-2011; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-

Reference: OHInt-0428/10

Description: Ev Hill was born in Invercargill in 1926. Recalls a close relationship with his father who had a difficult time in World War I and was given a very poor rehab (rehabilitation) farm after the war. Recalls living in a tent on a farm his father bought in Gorge Road. Describes a religious mother who was a Salvation Army officer and head of the local Temperance Union, regular attendance at church and an absence of fun. Recalls the values of `God and the King' passed on by his parents. Mentions that the Mataura Licensing Trust was `dry' until 1954. Recalls having his first drink of Hokonui whisky, made by local supplier Major Gerald Enright (known as the Major or Del), when he was fourteen. Describes Hokonui as the `local moonshine'. Discusses the Major, his farm and stills, amiable relationship with the community, regular attendance at Mass and friends in high places providing petrol coupons. Comments that everyone, including the Inland Revenue department and the police, knew about the Major's activities. Explains how he became a driver for the Major from 1941-1942 because he wanted a motorcar. Describes how the Major bought him a 1934 Chevrolet for which he worked, doing deliveries of Hokonui around Southland, Otago and Christchurch, until the car was paid off. Notes he worked for him for about a year. Describes the smell of cooking the mash for the alcohol and the process of distilling it. Discusses his delivery routes, safe houses, the excise men, a network of informants and an incident when he transported Constable Bandy to an accident when the car was full of Hokonui. Mentions the Major was later prosecuted. Comments on the legacy of Hokonui. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Copy of photo of Lilly, Priscilla and Ruth Wilson ca 1917, Invercargill; copy of newspaper article `Prohibition runner recalls the rush' Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2602.

Date: [c 1960s]

From: New Zealand Association of Waterfront Employers :Photographs of ports, docks and shipping around the world.

Reference: PA12-8640

Description: 24 transparency slides relating to the New Zealand Association of Waterfront Employers, taken in the early 1960s. Places identified: Glasgow, Cardiff, Antwerp (Belgium), Hamburg, Le Havre (with L.E H C.H written on them). Glasgow: General shot of storage site, and pallets of whisky being loaded or unloaded from ship. Cardiff: General views of loading pits. Antwerp (Belgium): Bails of wool being unloaded from ship. Hamburg: Crates of oranges being discharged from storage, general views of wharf workers. Le Havre (10 slides with L.E.H.C.H written on them): Slides depict a load of rubber being loaded on to ship, general shots of ships, wharf workers and machinery including a sling load. Quantity: 24 colour copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slides

Date: 1936-1983

By: Perry, Charles Stuart, 1908-1982

Reference: 85-012

Description: Papers on Perry's work on the Indecent Publications Tribunal, his research and draft of a history of the Tribunal and of censorship. Also extensive research notes on other subjects, such as New Zealand hoaxes, 'The New Zealand Whisky Book', Alfred Domett, and on the internment camp on Somes Island. Source of title - Supplied title Other Titles - New Zealand Whiskey Book Other Titles - Indecent Publications Tribunal, a social experiment Perry, a former Wellington City Librarian, served on the Indecent Publications Tribunal 1963-1973, wrote and edited, and was active in PEN and the NZ Libraries Association. Quantity: 75 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary list available.

Date: 1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-216

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, Mar-Jul 1948. Includes book-binding; Auckland Sunday School Union mobile van (F E Slattery & W E Archer); shepherds and dogs from Lake Pukaki Station; Mount Cook Manual Training Centre, Wellington (Miss Colleen Dreyer, teacher and her pupils); girls of the Hastings Rangers Company who built a meeting-house of rammed earth with their leader Miss Pauline Tyers; Empire Day ball attended by girls from Auckland and Epsom Grammar schools, Diocesan and St Cuthbert's Collge shown dancing the minuet. Official opening of two bottle stores in Masterton by members of the Licensing Trust (includes J C D Mackley, C C Crawford and F Pickering); children in the audience of a Wellington movie theatre and looking at a poster advertising `Swiss Family Robinson'; Rora Street, Te Kuiti; D H S Riddiford making presentation to Mrs Paki (said to be 108) at Castlepoint Centenary celebrations; party of 22 typists from United Kingdom who were employed on two year contract to work in Government offices in Wellington (all named); M Anthony, skipper of New Zealand yacht Rangi with crew members F Lush and T Hammond; New Zealand flier Captain A A Mansfield, Rt Hon W J Jordan and others. Colleen Saunders wih puppies; New Zealand rugby players in London (Ted Ellisson (Dunedin), Ian McKenzie (Auckland), Arch Beadle (Dunedin), Barry Martin (Petone), Noy Reid (Auckland), Jim Hay (Wellington); Lincoln College float at Christchurch with `Millie the million dollar cow'; Handley Page Hastings, Britain's biggest transport plane at Wigram; children at Pointways, a pony club at Pakuranga; George Rush, Jack Hull, Ray Raynor and Tom Chamberlain at Timaru displaying the large number of salmon they caught; The Pinnacles near mouth of Putangirua Stream, Palliser Bay; rugby player Bob Scott; bodies of women who lost their lives in a blizzard in Copland Pass being brought to the Hermitage by guides, Apr 1848; Mrs M E Rogers of Christchurch with large salmon caught by her husband in Waimakariri River; Salvation Army Centennial Conference held in Dunedin (officers all named). Processes related to export of whiskey at a British distillery; Waitaki Boys' High School team at Otago and Southland secondary school athletic championships held in Dunedin; corvettes Arabis and Arbutus leaving Auckland for Britain; small child milking a cow; Women's Section of Christchurch RSA; Stratford Pipe Band at Inglewood United Rugby Football Club Jubilee celebrations; people under hypnosis; New Plymouth Easter Pilots' Camp; Private Muriel Cousins, Whakatane making memorial medal at Trentham Military Camp; tug Tapuhi towing retiring tug Natone to Shelly Bay; launch Ede launched at Kaikoura; first guests at `Scotlands', the Women's Division of Federated Farmers rest-home at Onehunga, Auckland (Mrs W G Graham, Mrs M A Cruickshank, Mrs A E Escott and Mrs A E Bridge) Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1893

From: Buller, Arthur Percival 1866-1910 :New Zealand lepidoptera. [1893]

By: Buller, Arthur Percival, 1866-1910; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: E-088-q-024

Description: A caricature drawn on the front of a stamped, addressed and postmarked envelope. It is addressed to Alec the Good, at 'Elibank', Bowen Street, Wellington. It shows Alexander Turnbull standing in a doorway, dressed in a monk's habit, distributing tomato sauce, tea and whisky from a basket to begging figures at his feet, including a monk, a nun, and a dog. The arch of the doorway is inscribed W & G T's [W and G Turnbull's] Whiskey Gardens. On the left is an advertisement for W & G T's 'Royal tomato sauce'; on the right an advertisement for the same firm's blended teas. Glued into the later pages of an album of watercolours of butterflies, almost certainly by Alexander Turnbull, after creating a bound album of the watercolours Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on envelope. 102 x 75 mm

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3039-1-023

Description: Photograph of a label from a bottle of Hokonui whisky which reads: "Guaranteed free from poisons. Ergo bibamus. Old Hokonui. Passed all tests except the police. Bottled by me for you. Produce of Southland. Supplied to all snake charmers". Label photographed by Albert Percy Godber. There is a glass plate negative of this image at APG-1473-1/4. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1970

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

Reference: B-137-128

Description: Shows a two-panel cartoon. An instructor shows police trainees an old whisky still and asks what they would do if they found such a device. One trainee replies, "With the Hotel Assocaition putting up the price of whisky to what it is, I'd turn a blind eye and say good luck to him!". Other Titles - Now, gentlemen, we have here a device for brewing whisky which is illegal in this country ... Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 230 x 322 mm, on sheet 270 x 440 mm.

Date: 03 July 1966

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/120

Description: 'Why Windmill O'Regan quit town' is a story of an Irish bushman who no longer needed to come to Town for his whiskey as he had created his own 'Still' in the bush. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBN Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 47 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0124 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 14 Minutes Duration.

Date: 06 Jan 1974

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/470

Description: Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0483 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 10 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script available.

Date: 1945 - 1960

By: New Zealand Stock Exchange

Reference: A-319-004

Description: Shows half length profile portrait of a businessman in bow tie, holding his spectacles in his hand, and saying "Penwortham, would you please stop shouting 'Double whisky' whenever I call for order!" Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on card, 292 x 228 mm. Provenance: Donated by the New Zealand Stock Exchange in 1997.

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 1/2-208897-G

Description: McCallums Scotch Whisky logo, photographed by K E Niven and Co of Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative Finding Aids: Studio card index: no 853 [unknown client/card missing].

Date: 1983

By: Dominion Breweries Ltd

Reference: Eph-F-ALCOHOL-1983-Spirits

Description: Includes: Deluxe Scotch you can afford to share. Seagram's 100 Pipers De Luxe Scotch Whisky Taste life; taste Bacardi Rum When you're serious about having fun ... serve Nikolai. Nikolai distilled vodka. Try the traditional rum, Wood's Old Navy Buy this gin; win this tonic - 10 days in paradise with a luxury Fiji holiday for two. Gordon's - New Zealand's and the world's largest selling gin. Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on cardboard, sizes varying up to 850 x 420 mm.

Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, issued in support of the campaign against the sale of liquor in New Zealand. 1800s - ]

By: New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic

Reference: Eph-A-ALCOHOL-Prohibition-1919-01

Description: Recto shows sketches of drunk and his elegant seducer Johnnie Talker (resembling Johnnie Walker) and verso is an arrangement of text "Alcohol removes grease". Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on either side of small leaflet.. Physical Description: Letterpress 142 x 93 mm.

Date: 1836

By: Thomas, J, active 1830s

Reference: A-091-013

Description: Signed. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 450 x 453 mm

Date: 1976

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-76195-F

Description: Kentucky Keg Bourbon, taken for Public Service Investment Society in 1976 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Other - Reference number 519/76 P.S.I.S Wines and Spirits Booze Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1975

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-134-693

Description: This cartoon features Prime Minister Rowling anxiously reading a newspaper article about the Australian Governor General dismissing the Whitlam government. He decides to take the New Zealand Governor General a bottle of whisky but when he gets there Opposition leader Muldoon is just leaving having already given him a bottle of whisky Label on verso dated Thur 13/11/75 Inscriptions: Pencil dated lower right hand corner 13/11/75 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 378 mm