Bureaucracy

Date: 1999

By: Southland times (Newspaper); Winter, Mark, 1958-; Qantas Airways Ltd

Reference: H-628-001/012

Description: Cartoons published in the Southland Times, 1999, and a finalist entry in the 1999 Qantas Media Awards (the winner was Malcolm Evans). Quantity: 12 Laser copies. Physical Description: Laser copies, A4 size.

Date: 6 Dec 1988 - 06 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Dowdney, Trevor Heath, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0159/09

Description: Trevor Dowdney was born in Rotorua in 1932. Gives details of his family background and the family's interest in the outdoors, particularly hunting and fishing. Describes attending Whakarewarewa Native School and recalls good race relations. Recalls going to Rotorua Boys High and mentions some teachers. Talks about joining the Forest Service as a junior labourer and being in the timber cruising party from 1950-1955. Describes its work measuring and recording all the millable (mostly native) trees. Recalls being on a job for up to four months and staying at the sawmill or at a bush camp. Comments on islolated conditions and talks about the staff. Recalls magnificent totara and rimu in Western Bay, Taupo. Notes the Forest Service awareness of Maori land. Describes going on a working holiday to England from 1956-1959. Talks about his wife who came out from England with him. Describes becoming a leading hand with the Forest Service in Rotorua from 1959 to 1965. Describes the attributes of a good bushman and the steps in tree felling. Talks about becoming an office worker setting silviculture and planting targets. Recalls the office's organisation and staff. Describes going to a Head Office job in Wellington as Organisation and Method Officer. Comments on the job, city life and the relationship between Head Office and the conservancies. Talks about working overseas from 1972-1973 and returning to a clerical job in Rotorua. Describes working as the operator of the Whakarewarewa and Kaingaroa weighbridges. Comments on bureaucracy. Talks about the effects of corporatisation and how it was achieved. Describes working on contract with his son since corporatisation. Compares being a free enterprise operator with being a public servant. Venue - Rotorua : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Dowdney's home at Rotorua Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001905; OHC-001906; OHC-001907 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 300. Search dates: 1932 - 1988

Date: 1989-1991

From: New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage III

By: Kirkland, Andrew, 1935-1997

Reference: OHInt-0166/03

Description: Interviews Andy Kirkland on twenty separate occasions. Summarises decisions made in late 1988 that Forestry Corporation assets would be sold with the Corporation acting as agent of sales and manager of Crown forests and Maori lease forests until the sale. Discusses the importance of settling Maori land claims before the sale and the role of the Committee of Officials in achieving this. Comments on the difficulty of finding a body that can speak authoritatively for Maori. Mentions Sir Graham Latimer, the Maori Council and the Federation of Maori Authorities. Comments on the trend for important transactions to shift from the Corporation to bureaucracy, particularly Treasury. Explains why he is in favour of privatisation and the need for a `clean bidding process'. Describes dealing with lobby groups, the backlash to impending sales and a public meeting about the Whakarewarewa Forest. Comments on the redrafting legislation in terms of the sale to give strong powers for environmental protection. Discusses the `greening' of politics internationally and the trend from exploitation of forests to renewable managed resources. Comments on the Corporation's emphasis on sustainability and the impact of this on the speed of cutting forests. Describes time offshore talking to potential buyers. Discusses the Tauranga waterfront dispute and its impact internationally on sales. Talks about legal action with Carter Holt Harvey and Tasman Forestry about aspects of the sale. Talks about the future of mills at Waipa, Kawerau and Kinleith. Describes how some forests will be sold by direct negotiation and some by sealed bid. Summarises the transition from the Forest Service in 1986 to mid 1990 commenting on disagreement with the Board over how the sales should happen. Discusses tension as a result of feeling that the Crown or Board seemed to feel that Forestry Corporation management was inadequate. Discusses plans to deal with unsold forests. Describes the sale of Nelson forests to Fletcher Challenge, forests in the Mananwatu, Coromandel and West Otago to Earnslaw 1, Auckland, Hawkes Bay and Canterbury forests to Carter Holt Harvey and Wairarapa forest to a Japanese firm. Notes that Central North Island forests remain unsold. Discusses the role of Bay of Plenty Timberlands and New Zealand Timberlands. Describes lack of recognition by the state of the calibre of Corporation staff and the number of redundancies likely. Talks about the human side of restructuring. Describes feelings on the demise of the Forestry Corporation on 30 November 1990. Comments on the profits and efficiencies of privatisation and how the Corporation had been a good model for change. Describes key players as Roger Douglas and Alan Gibbs. Mentions John Fernyhough and Bev Adlam. Describes conflicts with Treasury and the challenge of being involved in legal action, setting up the Crown Forestry Licence and Maori land claim negotiations. Comments on the trend away from multiple use in forestry and his own professional interest in the trade-off between conservation and development. Venue - Wellington : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Karori, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004341; OHC-004342; OHC-004343; OHC-004344; OHC-004345; OHC-004346; OHC-004347; OHC-004348; OHC-004349; OHC-004350; OHC-004351; OHC-004352; OHc-004353; OHC-004354; OHC-004355 Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 15 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 695.

Date: 7 Dec 1988 - 07 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Viles, David Gordon Kenneth, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0159/08

Description: David Viles was born in Feilding in 1949. Talks about growing up on a small farm and being the second of six children. Notes that his father also did labouring work. Comments on his mother's important role within the family. Talks about living conditions. Describes attending Feilding Agricultural High School and winning a scholarship to go to Forestry School at the University of Canterbury. Recalls lecturers and life at Forestry School. Comments on the rivalry between foresters and rangers and the problem of two separate training programmes streaming into one occupational group. Describes a strong camaraderie among the labour workforce in the Forest Service in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Talks about the forest camps, communal living in single men's huts and the effect of the PEP programme on these camps. Recalls being a forester at Ashley Forest and his work advising on planting, pruning and thinning. Comments on the role of the regional Conservator, the lack of local flexibility in terms of decision-making and the bureaucracy of Head Office. Notes that Andy Kirkland was beginning to make changes, including implementing the amalgamation of foresters and rangers, when corporatisation happened. Explains some of the reasons for corporatisation including the demand from Treasury for greater efficiency and the pressure from environmentalists opposing multiple use of forests. Describes becoming District Forester at Masterton where the emphasis was on recreational use of forests and soil protection of native forests. Talks about shifting to Golden Downs, a large exotic forest, before becoming Principal Forester at Head Office. Mentions Director General Mick O'Neill and Ministers of Forestry including Colin Moyle, Venn Young, Jonathan Elworthy and Koro Wetere. Comments on a plan to amalgamate the Forest Service and the Department of Lands and Survey and the potenital clash between the preservation oriented Lands and Survey and the multiple use-oriented Forest Service. Talks about his current position as South Island Manager of Timberlands. Venue - Christchurch : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mair Astley House, Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001895; OHC-001896; OHC-001897 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 297. Search dates: 1949 - 1988

Date: 12 July 2005

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-298

Description: Shows a infant wrapped up in red and suspended in the air. The tape represents the hundreds more rules and regulations, thousands more bureaucrats, heaps more meddling sticky beaks. Refers to the Labour Government's new legislation. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - Leader page cartoon 13 CARTOON 186mm x 133mm Pls scan and send to Production Pix (Pix on Hand) [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 1958

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-069

Description: A scene in the Government Printing Office. Two men are in discussion amongst enormous piles of newly-printed forms Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 2000

By: Ellison, Anthony, 1966-

Reference: H-615-005/008

Description: 4 cartoons on the budget and bureaucracy, business going off shore, two moa discussing the sighting of Ron Jorgensen, and domestic abuse among Maori. Quantity: 4 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: Wilson, George Hamish Ormond, 1907-1988

Reference: A-261-047/051

Description: See child records for details Possibly originals for Listener cartoons Quantity: 5 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 200 x 265 mm or smaller

Date: 1958 - 1962

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-176

Description: A man standing at a counter, while an official picks a form for the man to complete Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 2005

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0000463

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The problem of reducing bureaucracy will be dealt with by creating a new department. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

By: New Zealand doctor (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0023472

Description: The doctor demonstrates postures such as downward facing dog, dead dog, and sleeping dog. A woman asks if he's doing yoga, and he responds that they are 'ACC bureaucracy impersonations'. Refers to problems with the Accident Compensation Corporation, the sole and compulsory provider of accident insurance for all work and non-work injuries in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013228

Description: Shows a burglar holding a taser gun (Police bureaucracy) which has paralysed an armed defenders police officer on the ground. Refers to the arming of police with taser guns and the amount of bureaucracy to get approval for the non-lethal weapons. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0008657

Description: Shows two frames. In the first frame a man drives a huge grader towards a man who represents New Zealand and the Resource Management Act and stops when the man raises his hands in protest. In the second frame ACT leader Rodney Hide drives the same grader and runs the man down. Refers to Act's tough stance on resource management. Rodney Hide has been given the local Government portfolio and is Minister of Regulatory Reform. 'As the slasher in chief of red tape Hide will get treasury to look at slashing bureaucracy in Government departments; set up a taskforce to push through the regulatory responsibility bill (a law he hopes will take the hassle out of doing business); and scrap the Resource Management Act'. (3 News) B&W version of DCDL-0008658 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010510

Description: Health Minister, Tony Ryall, stands in a hospital operating theatre dressed as a surgeon. He is about to take a chainsaw to a body on the operating table that represents 'DHB bureaucracy'. Blood is spattered everywhere and one of the two assistants asks Tony Ryall if they should add the fact of this death to the list of New Zealand medical mishaps. Refers to the listing of such mishaps in the news. The cartoon suggests that by chopping bureaucracy more damage will be done to an already overstretched service. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009147

Description: "Just Practising" cartoon strip. Shows Doctor Dolly sitting in front of her laptop surrounding by arch lever ringbinders. She is researching the ratio of bureaucrats to practitioners in the health system. She has written to the Ministry of Health for information and is on their waiting list. Refers to the Official Information Act and waiting lists in hospitals. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0007671

Description: Shows two men tangled in red tape representing bureaucracy and compliance. One of them asks the other if she said the election was about 'trust' or 'trussed'. Refers to the Prime Minister's statement that Labour's election campaign was underpinned by 'trust' but the two men are obviously finding themselved hampered by red tape. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012219

Description: Dr dolly enters the office and is surprised at the number of ezecutive staff; she thinks the bureucracy is getting bigger than the medical staff. She asks the parctice manager manager senior executive who is doing the roster now and is told that they have been outsourced. Published in NZ Doctor Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005326

Description: Shows a large 'Power Schemes' dam begining to crack under the pressure of too much red tape. People are running away from the dam. Refers to the amount of bureaucratic red tape power schemes go through before fruition. Published in The Press, 1 April 2004 Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called "QANTAS2004" Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 2005

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008487

Description: Shows a boxer acting as a champion on behalf of architecture, urban design and design bureaucracy. The boxer smashes the architectural models for architecture and urban design, and then punches the bureaucrat in the face. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012694

Description: Dr Hal is in despair over the health system restructuring but his meltdown is arrested when Dr Dolly appears with a newspaper with a headline that reads 'DNA code to be reviewed by select committee'. Published in NZ Doctor Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).