Hazardous substances

Date: 2002

Reference: H-668-001/020

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Topics covered include: Whanau benefits in Maori TV funding and jobs, Helen Clark advises Australia to stay out of New Zealand politics, the stranding of the tanker Jody F Millennium off the Coast of Gisborne, air-sprayed 'painted apple moth' toxin seen as a possibility for dealing with Palmerston North gangs, Government spending prioroties questioned, Judges private use of lap-top computers called into question after pornography accessing case, Helen Clark and Peter Davis come to terms with royal protocol, the Queen arrives in NZ and is greeted by the Deputy Prime Minister, comparrisons of Royal and Vice Regal visits including the beleaguered Australian Govenor General, 2002 Rich List and the increasing poverty of the ordinary man, the Government considers new road tax on motorists, ex-MP's and their spouses travel perks, The Queen and Duke meet Australian PM Howard and Govenor General, Governments spending priorities questioned, large amount of new road tax to fund Auckland roading development, Alliance Party in self destruction mode, the unlikely prospect of Bill English becoming Prime Minister, Helen Clark wonders whether the Governments policies have given the unions too much strength, ease of securing money for social activities if you call them a 'hui', NZ Rugby Football Union loses co-host status for World Cup and it's associated revenue. Quantity: 20 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-058-018/021

Description: Includes lot plan, site plan, sections, elevations, and floor plans. Plans for areas for inflammable and non-inflammable goods, with concrete floors. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 580 x 760 mm.

Date: 1973

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; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-439

Description: This cartoon features two men talking over their suburban garden fence. One is watering his wilting tomato plants and complaining to the other that his mother-in-law has come to stay with them as a result of the Parnell toxic chemical spill. In the window of the house behind the mother-in-law is talking to the wife. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 284 x 400 mm

Date: 8 Jun 2000 - 08 Jun 2000

From: Quaker Oral History Project

By: Hughes, Helen Hannah, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0427-28

Description: Helen Hannah Hughes born Nelson (a home birth). Describes childhood in Tahunanui; move to Nelson; schooling; Quaker household; Presbyterian Sunday School; University College, Canterbury and study at Vasser (USA). Recalls meeting David Crowther Hughes and describes wedding in drawing room at home; honeymoon at Kina, in ancient Austin 7; setting up home in Christchurch and having three children in three years and three months. Mentions return to teaching, relieving at Te Wai Pounamu and later at Onslow College. Describes move to Suva and work with Fiji Department of Agriculture. Gives details of work with weeds on Rewa river. Recalls return to New Zealand and describes Ian Baumgart, Commissioner for Environment and move to DSIR as Environmental Co-ordinator with reference to New Zealand Conservation Strategy. Discusses influence of Strategy and refers to Sir Frank Holmes and Ken Piddington. Continues to outline career, government restructuring following 1984 Election and appointment as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. Discusses rabbit control, subsidies on pest control and refers to `1080 poison dropped on McKenzie Basin and import of Spanish Flu - Rabbit Caliceo Virus Disease. Discusses threads through career: Toxic Chemicals, ICI Fire in Auckland; system to deal with hazardous chemicals; Mapua waste; Resource Management Act 1991; Hazardous substance and new organisms legislation. Lists committements since retirement in 1996; On Cawthorne Institute Trust Board; Worldwide Fund for Nature Board; UNESCO Science Commission; Council of Wellington Branch of Royal Society and served on New Zealand Academic Board Unit. Discusses involvement as Quaker: Wellington Meeting Children's Committee. Accompanying material - Photocopy of Reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment January 1987-May 1997 Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007462-007464 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2.25 Hours and minutes Duration. 1 Interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1886, OHDL-000612.

Date: 1980-1999

Reference: Eph-A-PEST-1980/1999

Description: Includes: 1980s: Balan starts it right. Before sowing your lucerne, use Balan for reliable weed control [1980s] Elliotts Dri-Die. Seen a cockroach lately? A dead one that is! Product bulletin 330 [1980s?] Shell Oil NZ Ltd. New Shell 20% DDT pellets [1980s] The Timms opossum kill trap, manufactured by K.B.L. Springs Ltd. [1980s] 1981: BASF. Save him the pain! Eradicate Onehunga weed [with] Basagran [ca 1981] 1982: New Zealand Electricity, Dunedin. Caution! 5 dangerous aquarium plants. Sticker 1983: New Zealand Department of Health. Health Information Services. Do you use organophosphate pesticides? To protect your health, get your blood tested regularly. 1983 1985:Bayer. Invitation. Bayer New Zealand cordially invites you to call at our site at WHEAT '84 and collect your loaf of Bayleton bread [produced from crops where Bayleton EC cereal fungicide was used] New Zealand Department of Health. Health Information Services. Do you use organophosphate pesticides? To protect your health, get your blood tested regularly. 1985 1987: New Zealand Department of Health. How to make your kids scratch resistant! [re headlice]. 1987 1988: New Zealand Department of Health. Protection for people applying pesticides. Code 4206, 1988 1989: New Zealand Department of Conservation. If you go into the bush today ... [1989] (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Conservation. Old Man's Beard must go; a trim is not enough [1989] (2 copies) 1990s: New Zealand Department of Conservation. Look out for stowaway pests! Boaties ... Gulf Island visitors read this before you go! [1990s?] The Timms opossum kill trap, manufactured by K.B.L. Rotational Moulders Ltd. [1990s] Vet-Kem. Siphotrol insecticidal fogger. "He's coming to get you ..." [1990s] Air Guard automatic insect control [1990s?] 1990: New Zealand Department of Conservation. Help to protect New Zealand's islands from problem animals and plants. 1990 New Zealand Department of Health. Headlice facts. Code 4189. 1990 1992: Nits! [Advice to parents from headmaster of Wadestown School. ca 1992] Red pamphlet 1993: Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council. How to control Old Man's beard [1993?] (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Labour. A guide to safety with pesticides [1993] 1995: Ants and wasps. October 1995 New Zealand Department of Conservation / Auckland Regional Council. Environmental weeds; delightful but destructive [Folded chart. 1995] New Zealand Department of Conservation. National requirements for trapping and cyanide use. 1995 (2 copies) 1996: New Zealand Department of Conservation. Problem animals; Great Barrier Island does not want them. June 1996 (2 copies) 1997: New Zealand Department of Conservation. Your pet is a predator. My cat did that?! February 1997 New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries. Marine pest guide: Potacocorbula amurensis - Asian clam . 1997 Wellington Regional Council. Regional pest plant management strategy; advice of entry. Green flier [ca 1997] 1998: Auckland City Council. A guide to rat control [1998] Environment Waikato Regional Council. Mustelids. Animal pest series no. 6. 1998 Environment Waikato Regional Council. Thistles. Plant pest series no. 12, 1998 Fly Stop. Free your home of flies, fleas, ants, spiders ... Phone 232-7080 now. Yellow flier [1998] (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Conservation. Garden escapes; garden plants invading our bush. 1998 (2 copies) Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. What's that pest? Identify and control New Zealand garden pests and diseases, by Rob Lucas. Revised edition [1998] Wellington Regional Council. A guide to self help possum control. Booklet [ca 1998] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1983

From: Lynch, James, 1947-:Collection of original cartoons by James Lynch.

By: New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-186-047

Description: Shows a man and his son staring at a huge barbed wire fence that borders the 'Taranaki Province Hazardous Waste Area'. Context: There was great concern over pollution in Taranaki from the Dow chemical plant and the oil and gas schemes. (Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 350 x 280 mm

Date: 1941

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1183/1184

Description: Includes plan showing fuel oil system tanks, dangerous goods store. There are ground plans, elevations and sections. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, 470 x 515 mm.

Date: 1984

From: Pringle, Michael, 1962-: Papers, photographs, maps, and posters

Reference: MS-Papers-6854-12

Description: Report, `Hazardous activities in the Auckland Region', a draft discussion paper put out by the Planning Department, Auckland Regional Authority (Dec 1983) with summary by Graeme Campbell, planning officer Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 4 Mar 2000 - 04 Mar 2000

From: Nursing biographies - Wellington Polytechnic, 1973-1998

By: Cook, Ngaire Robin, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0599/07

Description: Ngaire Robin Cook (nee Bielski) born Gisborne 1943. Recalls responding to advertisement to care for the Intellectually Handicapped Children at Kimberly Training School, Levin and being approached to do psychiatric training. Gives reasons for choosing to train at Tokanui. Discusses various treatments at the time. Talks about return to Kimberley and describes staffing. Refers to three months at SANS (School of Advanced Nursing) and decision to train as a RGON at Hutt Hospital in 1970. Refers to Rita McEwan who was in charge of SANS. Recalls return to the Hutt Hospital as a tutor and describes experience of teaching the topic `nervous system and the eye'. Discusses involvement in Occupational Health with reference to electroplating and lead poisoning and the setting up of 3 task forces in New Zealand; potential danger of concentrated oxygen and surveying cow farms in the Manawatu for Leptospirosis. Recalls entering Wellington Polytechnic as a lecturer in the first year of the undergraduate programme. Refers to Stoma courses and Oncology and stress management workshops. Describes experience up the coast with `Home Care 2000' - Care of people in own homes, assessing and placing people and refers to the amount of disability in the community with very little support. Lists papers published. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Venue - Wellington Polytechnic Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009763-009764 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3244.

Date: n d

From: Harbours Association of New Zealand : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-4171-0687

Date: 1955 - 1969

From: [Posters of around A3 size about industrial safety, safety in the workplace. ca 1950-1979]

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Work-1960s-08

Description: Poster shows an illustration of a man in protective goggles, clothing and gloves, filling a bucket from a barrel labelled "Corrosive liquid". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 429 x 339 mm. Provenance: Acquired from the wall of a Port Nicholson Packaging building in 1994.

Date: 1980 - 1999

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Work-1980/1999

Description: Includes: 1981: Abrasive wheels can maim. Published by the Department of Labour IW70/P76/9000/81. P D Hasselberg, Government Printer, Wellington New Zealand, 1981. NZ Forest Service and Department of Labour. The correct methods of starting chainsaws. 1981 1983: New Zealand Department of Labour. This will happen unless the guards on your press are ... correctly fitted ... IW83/P76/83 [1983] 1985: New Zealand Department of Health. Working with isocyanates [1985] 1995: Occupational Safety & Health Service [and] Department of Labour. When you use your visual display unit, are you comfortable? [1995] 1998: New Zealand Department of Labour [and] Occupational Safety & Health Service. Please come home safe tonight; you've got a lot to live for. Together to zero; eliminating workplace deaths [1998] (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Labour [and] Occupational Safety & Health Service. Fa'amolemole fo'i mai i le aiga ma le saogalemu ... Please come home safe tonight; no job is worth dying for. Worksafe Week, 5-9 October 1998. New Zealand Department of Labour [and] Occupational Safety & Health Service [and] Fletcher Construction. Please come home safe tonight; no job is worth dying for. Worksafe Week, 5-9 October 1998 (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Labour [and] Occupational Safety & Health Service [and] Fletcher Construction. Me hoki pai mai koe a te po nei. Kare he take, na tau mahi ka mate koe. Please come home safe tonight; no job is worth dying for. Worksafe Week, 5-9 October 1998. 1999: New Zealand Department of Labour [and] Occupational Safety & Health Services. Tree fellers. A smart joker follows the safety rules in the approved Code of Practice for Safety and Health in Forest Operations [19990 Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to around 500 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: 1976 - 1979

By: New Zealand. Accident Compensation Commission; New Zealand. Ministry of Transport

Reference: Eph-D-SAFETY-1976/1979

Description: Includes: 1976: Accident Compensation Commission. Lollies or drugs; would your child know the difference! Lock up all medicine immediately after use. Poster reference number 9/76 [1976] Accident Compensation Commission. Your home is poisonous; ordinary household products are potential killers. Keep them out of reach of children. Poster reference number 10/76 [1976] Accident Compensation Commission. Cool it quick! Plenty of cold water is best for either burns or scalds - continue 5-10 minutes. Poster reference number 28/76 [1976] (2 copies) Accident Compensation Commission. It's hard to learn braille ... easier to wear your safety glasses. Issued by the Accident Compensation Commission [ca 1976] (2 copies) 1979: Accident Compensation Commission. Ladder logic; 4 up - 1 out. ACC publication ref. 2/79 [1979] N.Z. Ministry of Transport. Transport of hazardous substances; lables for Hazardous Substances and Restricted Articles for all modes of transport in New Zealand. E C Keating, Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand, 1978. Revised and reprinted June 1979 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying around A2 size. Provenance: Acquired from various sources.

Date: 1982 - 1984

By: New Zealand. Accident Compensation Commission; New Zealand. Department of Health; New Zealand. Department of Labour; New Zealand. Ministry of Works and Development

Reference: Eph-D-SAFETY-1982/1984

Description: Includes: ca 1982: Accident Compensation Corporation. Cut the stress in all uplifting moments; hold close, bend knees, use legs [ca 1982] 1982: Departments of Labour and Health. Isocyanate spillages (toluene di-isocyanate TDI). In the event of a spillage of isocyabate, evacuate ALL personnel from the area. IW65/P173/6000/82 [1982] New Zealand. Ministry of Works and Development. Safety manual; read it! P D Hassleberg, Government Printer, Wellington New Zealand, 1982. 87115G-500/8/82D Plunket says "Watch out; kids are about" / 1982 Trish Gribben and Dick Frizzell 1983: New Zealand Department of Labour. Overall protection means more than overalls. Published by the Department of Labour 1983. 7822D - 6,000/11/83D New Zealand Department of Labour. Safety in confined spaces; danger exists in ... Published by the Department of Labour. P D Hassleberg, Government Printer, Wellington New Zealand, 1983. IW82/p76/7,000/82 New Zealand. Industrial Design Council. Tredlite; smart, comfortable. You'll forget they're safety footwear ... until the crunch comes [1983] 1984: Accident Compensation Commission. Cut the stress ... your spine is delicate. Bend your knees, not your back [1984] Accident Compensation Commission. No hard hat? You need your head examined [1984] (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Health. protect us from hot water. Supervise your children in the bathroom; ask your plumber; wetbacks; gas water heating; ask your electrical supply authority [1984] (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Labour. Basic rules for logging operations. P D Hasselberg, Government Printer, Wellington New Zealand, 1984. 10185A-1000/1/84PT. IW88/p76/1000/83. New Zealand Ministry of Transport. Labels for the transport of hazardous substances. Ministry of Transport, March 1984 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying around A2 size. Provenance: Acquired from various sources.

Date: 1990 - 1999

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour. Occupational Safety and Health Service; Wellington (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council

Reference: Eph-D-SAFETY-1990s

Description: Includes: 1994: Wellington Regional Council. Danger 1080! Remember: all poisons are dangerous; 1080 poison baits are coloured green [1994] 1997: New Zealand Department of Labour. Occupational Safety & Health Service. Stop and ask ... What chemical is that? Read the label; get the Material Safety data sheet [1997] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying around A2 size. Provenance: Acquired from various sources.

Date: 1974

By: National Safety Association of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-D-SAFETY-1974

Description: Includes: Hand signals for controlling cranes other than ship and waterfront cranes used for normal waterfront work. Issued jointly by the National Safety Association of New Zealand and the Standards Association of New Zealand [1974?](2 copies) National Safety Association of New Zealand Inc. Don't tell us ... you had an accident [1974?](2 copies) National Safety Association of New Zealand. No label? Report it [Drum of chemicals. 1974?] National Safety Association of New Zealand [Andy Capp cartoon]. "I don't suppose yer could offer a bit of help to move this flippin' thing?! ... and don't forget - Keep your back straight! [ca 1974] (2 copies) National Safety Association of New Zealand. Where is it? Can you work it? [Fire extinguisher. ca 1974] (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying around A2 size. Provenance: Acquired from various sources.

Date: 1985 - 1989

By: National Safety Association of New Zealand; New Zealand. Department of Health; Accident Compensation Corporation (N.Z.); New Zealand. Department of Labour; Van der Voo, Jan, active 1980s

Reference: Eph-D-SAFETY-1985/1989

Description: Includes: 1985: Know the risks! Organophosphate pesticides can be dangerous! Department of Health [Code] 4827 1986: 'Bend your knees'. Ken Ring M Sc, MCSP, back specialist. Basic back care. Accident Compensation Corporation [1986] Don't fall into bad habits ... always cover or barricade holes and trenches. V R Ward, Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand, 1986. P76/1000/1986 Protect the public from UFOs (Unidentified falling objects); a shelter or verandah can prevent injury. Department of Labour P76/1000/86 1987: Compressed air can kill. Don't use it to clean yourself, benches or machinery. Don't fool with it. Treat it with respect - wear eye protection. Department of Labour, V R Ward ... 1987. P76/5,000/1987 Fire, Earthquake ... Emergency evacuation ... [1987] 1989: Protect us from hot water / Vandervoo. Department of Health New Zealand 1989 Code 4808 (2 copies) Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying around A2 size. Provenance: Acquired from various sources.

Date: [19 August 2014]

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: [Original cartoons by Chris Slane featured in a retrospective exhibition at Alta Gallery, Wellington, 8-22 October 2016.]

Reference: A-474-021

Description: Journalist Nicky Hager is dressed in a hazardous materials (hazmat) suit and gas mask, leading a team to clean up the Beehive Parliament building, which is emitting red, green, and yellow gasses and has been cordoned off as a biohazard zone. Cartoon references the publication of Hager's book, 'Dirty Politics'. Publshed in the 'Listener' 22 August, 2014 Digital version held at DCDL-0029208 Inscriptions: Recto - top left - SLANE.co.nz [in graphite] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and graphite on card, 225 x 303 mm

Date: 1994, 2014, 2018-2020

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Auckland Writers & Readers Festival; Australia and New Zealand Banking Group; Resene Paints Ltd.; Skinny (Firm); Summer Shakespeare Trust; New Zealand. Government Superannuation Fund

Reference: Eph-A-JUNE-JULY-2020/6

Description: Ephemera donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library in June-July 2020 by Denis Fairfax. Most material is undated. Includes: Government Superannuation Fund General Scheme pamphlet, 1994 Pamphlet from Wellington ICT about Wellington e-rider IT service for community groups [2014?]; Lower Hutt Armistice Centenary programme, 2018; Get Outdoors Week 2019 leaflet; March for Life flier [2019?]; University of Otago Foundation Trust 2019 Report; Leaflets about "eating kind", eliminating pig farrowing crates, and rodeo cruelty from SAFE; Leaflet from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses about ending thoroughbred racing in New Zealand; Pamphlet from Resene about understanding paint hazards and safety precautions when painting; Leaflet from Skinny/Jump about subsidised broadband; Leaflet from ANZ about setting up voice identification for telephone banking; General election and referendum 2020 information; Auckland Writers Festival May 2020 programme; Victoria University of Wellington Summer Shakespeare 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' programme, February 2020; Handbook of te reo Māori language for the environment (Kia Kaha te Reo Taiao); "40 Days for Life" vigil flier; Pamphlet from the Wildcat Anarchist Collective. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 43 pieces of ephemera..

Date: 1996 - 2010 - 2000

By: Pringle, Michael James, 1962-; New Zealand. Environmental Risk Management Authority; New Zealand. Ministry for the Environment

Reference: Eph-D-ENVIRONMENT-2000s-02

Description: Poster issued by ERMA and the Ministry for the Environment shows an image of an orange tin drum with small images of flammable substances, chemicals, petrol, etc. The HSNO Act was passed in 1996, and amended in 2010. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2016.