Petroleum industry and trade

Date: 1975

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-134-793

Description: This cartoon is set in the Middle East and there are several oil rigs in the distance. Minister of Agriculture, Colin Moyle, is introducing himself to a sheik who is sitting on a mat outside a tent, beside which a large car is parked. The Arab man misinterprets Mr Moyle's greeting. A few goats are watching. Extended Title - 'Hullo, there! I'm Moyle' 'No,I'M oil - you borrower'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 280 x 406 mm

Date: 1989 - 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-542/564

Description: Includes cartoons about: Personalised number plates; icy conditions in the Ngauranga Gorge; ferry bookings are a game of chance; ferry and air bookings are risky; people messing about in unseaworthy boats alarm the rescue services; TV advertising encourages dangerous driving; 21% bus ticket price increase; oil producers laugh at their own deceitfulness; petrol price increases cause decline in demand; plans for gambling parlour at Auckland Railway Station; rush hour at Mt Victoria Tunnel in the year 2001; Police rescue launch prevented from crossing Cook Strait for maintenance; Ministry of Transport considers "no warrant, no petrol" plan; fuel from gases given off by sheep and cattle; multiple registration tickets on cars; user pays - both toll charges and petrol tax; ship crew eating well; 40% of back-seat passengers do not belt up; electric car on Auckland-Wellington marathon; traffic police on push-bikes; if petrol is labelled "green" people trust it unwarrantedly; old age pensioners allowed only a certain amount of overseas travel. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Quantity: 23 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 2004

From: Winter, Mark 1958- :[Cartoons published in the Southland Times between 23 August 2004 and 15 January 2005]

Reference: A-370-071

Description: A sheik pushing a barrel marked 'Oil prices' up the side of a pyramid. Refers to rising oil prices Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, A4 size paper.

Date: 1973

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

Reference: B-134-461/507

Description: Cartoons commenting on social and political life in 1973 including possible power cuts, petrol shortages, nuclear testing in Mururoa by the French goverment, womens liberation and rugby. Quantity: 48 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings Provenance: Donation:

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1915-1917, 1923

By: Newton, Howard Henry, 1885-1970

Reference: MS-Group-0422

Description: Comprises correspondence and reports relating to Newton's association with A S Paterson & Co in their petroleum products department between 1915-1917 and two volumes of correspondence, reports and printed matter relating to his trip to the US and UK in 1923, also for A S Paterson. MSX-4172 includes coded telegrams. Source of title - Supplied title Howard Henry Newton worked for A S Paterson & Co and later with Shell Oil promoting the brand name Big Tree for petroleum products. These papers reflect some of his business activities in this field. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 0.80 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Draft drawing of Big Tree brand logo towards the end of MSX-4172

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.

Date: 1980

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

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-186-010

Description: The leaders of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, take pot shots at a barrel of oil labelled 'World Oil Supply'. Context: the Iran-Iraq War (also known as the First Persian Gulf War and by various other names) began on this day (22 September 1980). It was an armed conflict between the forces of Iraq and Iran, lasting from September 1980 to August 1988. The war finally ended with a United Nations brokered ceasefire in the form of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598, which was accepted by both sides. The war resulted (among other things) in crude oil price increases. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and Chinese white on paper, 420 x 590 mm

Date: 29 May 1984

From: NZOHA New Zealand Computer Society Silver Jubilee Oral History Project

By: Henley, Arthur John, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0093/09

Description: Arthur Henley was born 18 May 1929 at Clevedon, Auckland. Describes family background, childhood, education, rugby, geography degree at Auckland University. Talks about employment as an executive trainee, Standard Vacuum Oil Company (later Mobil Oil), Wellington in 1951. Speaks about move to IBM in 1959, one of the first four employees taken on. Mentions Thomas Watson, founder of IBM; the first real computer, the IBM 650; early punchcard and mechanical accounting machines; competition in New Zealand between ICL and IBM. Discusses early data processing systems such as for Treasury, payroll for the Education Department and the Railways, Canterbury University. Recalls running IBM's Christchurch operation, selling punch card equipment to Gough, Gough and Hamer, IGA Grocery Wholesalers, the Mercantile Gazette, flour millers D H Brown. Speaks of Paul Walker of Treasury and Gordon Oed of the New Zealand Post Office. Talks about the kind of people entering computing, women employees, New Zealand Computer Society, development of IBM's business. Describes use of punch cards, early computers, sales incentives, staff turnover, pressures on staff, development of industry in the 1960s. Discusses move to establish computing at South British Insurance in 1968. Speaks of the future of the industry, legislation, changes in use of email and sending documents electronically, use of micro computers. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - NZ Insurance Company Office, Shortland Street, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001553b/001559/001560/001561 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0242. Xeroxed photo in project report folder Search dates: 1929 - 1984

Date: 23 November 1989 - 23 Nov 1989

From: Todd Corporation Oral History Project

By: Carmichael, Robert Henry, 1909-

Reference: OHInt-0146/2

Description: Robert Henry Carmichael born Christchurch. Outlines family background - grandfather, James Carmichael, a builder, came from Belfast, Ireland ca 1864. Thinks grandfather may have built Opera House, Wellington, Courtenay Place, Wellington and Wharf sheds. Recalls early memories in Christchurch - religion, sport, discipline, school and politics - attended a political meeting in Christchurch with father at the age of 9 years. Refers to Hon G W (Ricketty) Russell, Liberal MP for Riccarton and the 1918 Flu epidemic. Discusses working life, starting as office boy with Sims Cooper & Co. (meat exporters), Christchurch, 1926-1941. Qualified as an accountant. Mentions Arthur Sims and Victor Trumpart (?). Talks about World War II and the Oil Companies. Explains effects of petrol rationing and how Todd Companies were advantaged by war years and were in a good position to expand post-war. Mentions motor spirit regulation of prices. Describes Europa operation. Mentions Bryan Todd as a key person in company. Refers to other Todd family members. Backgrounds his appointment as Sales Manager, Europa Oil (NZ) Limited, Wellington ca 1948. Mentions end of petrol rationing in 1950. Other topics covered include: Waterfront strike (1951); introduction of One-Band Service Station Campaign (1951); legal cases; appointment as General Manager, Europa Oil (1953-1975); Directors / Shareholding (1953); oil exploration and legislation making it easier to acquire Oil Exploration Licences (1954); exploration and strike at Kapuni (1959); Todd Aircraft (ca 1958); boom in crayfishing in Chatham Islands (1960s) and the advantages for Europa Oil who were contracted to supply fuel to fishing fleets until 1975; Todd Charitable Trust which was established 1960; death of Mary Todd (1962); litigation of tax (1965); Maui Gas Condensate field off Taranaki (1969); joint venture with Marcona, mining Waipipi Ironsands (1970 and retirement in 1975). Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waikanae Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 38 Ngarara Road, Waikanae Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003573-003575 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0610. 2 photographs: (i) Robert Carmichael (1986); (ii) Board of Directors 1954, Back row, L-R: R H Carmichael (General Manager), W H A Graham (Secretary), W A O'Callagan, D H Todd, W R Carey, O A Y Johnston; Front row, L-R: J L Passmore, E A Batt, B J Todd (Chairman of the Board), the late L G MacMillan and M H Hayward.

Date: 19 July 1990 - 19 Jul 1990

From: Todd Corporation Oral History Project

By: King, Ronald George, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0146/5

Description: Ronald George King born Methven, Canterbury. Outlines family background - paternal grandmother, Annie King, came to New Zealand with parents in 1865 on the `Hydaspes (Clipper ship). Describes: childhood; extensive travel by train as father was an engine driver for New Zealand Railways, with reference to Wharf or Government Service as alternative form of travel; shortages during World War II; religion; politics, giving description of Arnold Nordmeyer; contact with Maori and education at Catholic schools, leaving with University Entrance, later doing Hemmingways Correspondence School Accounting Course. Gives details of employment, starting as clerical cadet with Inland Revenue in Greymouth before moving to Wellington and qualifying with ACA in 1956 and becoming Tax Inspector, refers to `Tax Dodgers'. Discusses time as accountant for Noble Lowndes Insurance Brokers (1960-1965), a company specialising in Superannuation, before joining Todd Motors Ltd, Courtenay Place, Wellington in 1956 as accountant, becoming Corporate Secretary of the Todd Corporation in 1987. Describes career with Todd which lasted 26 years. Topics discussed include: Todd Family Investments; Service Station Wars (1960s); Europa Tax Litigation; Formation of Whitby Community Development Consortium (1967); Todd Petroleum Mining Company and Maui Gas Condensate Field; Joint Waipipi Iron Sands Venture with Marcona (1969); Kapuni gas field; Mitsubishi Distribution (1970) with reference to Japanese cars; Motor / Trading Changes in Dealerships System; Death of Sir Desmond Henry Todd (1970); Sale of Europa (1972); Shell BP Todd Consortium; Joint Participation in Liquigas (1981); Investment in Baigent Forest Industry (1982); Golden Cross, Waihi: Joint Gold venture with Cyprus Minerals USA (1985); Future of Todd Corporation and his feelings about retirement in 1991 after 26 years with the Company. Mentions influence of Stan Mann. Other people mentioned include: Ken Armstrong, Alan Notley, Neville Smith, Lionel Bulcraig, Denford McDonald, Jim Warren, Dr G A (Gert) Lau, Joe Melgers, Doug Wallace and members of the Todd Family. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 20 Woodhouse Avenue, Karori Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003586-003587 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0613. 6 photographs (i) Todd Corporation Senior Staff Members 1989; (ii) Todd Corporation Limited Staff Members 1989; (iii) Patrick O'Rourke, Ron King and an unidentified man in 1954; (iv) Air Training Corps 1946, Ron King, front row 4th from left; (v) same as ii and vi same as (1).

Date: 12 July 1990

From: Todd Corporation Oral History Project

By: Smith, Neville Keith, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0146/4

Description: Neville Keith Smith born Waimate. Outlines family background - father, Cecil Ferdinand Smith, served with Canterbury Mounted Rifles at Gallipoli and was an expert sniper. Recalls childhood skin complaint; education; religion; politics; contact with Maori; sex education; Depression and World War II. Discusses his career which commenced as a cadet with the Public Trust in Blenheim (1944-1946). Later joined Europa (Associated Motorists' Petrol Company Ltd) as a punch card supervisor, and held various positions within the Company, eventually becoming Director. Recalls leaving Europa in 1972 to join Todd Motors Ltd as Finance Director and then Director of Todd Corporation where he also worked on the company's archives. Gives a detailed account of the history and operations of Europa; Waterfront strike (1951); competition with multi-nationals; the Todd family, especially Bryan Todd; Europa tax cases (1953-1975); account of work as finance director of Todd Motors, conflict and sale of Todd Motor Corporation to Mitsubishi. Recalls differences between Europa and Todd Motors Limited. Mentions Dr Gert Lau, Cyril Middlebrook, Bob Carmichael, Hugh Bartlett, who installed Punch card machines and Tom Mortlock. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 12 Ngarara Road, Waikanae Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0612. Search dates: 1990

Date: 1984-1986

From: Employers' and Manufacturers' Association (Central) Inc : Records

Reference: 2000-222-117/11

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1987-1988

From: Employers' and Manufacturers' Association (Central) Inc : Records

Reference: 2000-222-117/12

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1975

From: Scales, Sid, 1916-2003 :[One folder of political cartoons featuring Robert Muldoon and the Muldoon era. Published in the Otago Daily Times. 1972 - 1975]

Reference: A-319-019

Description: Shows an oil sheikh, representing OPEC, pumping higher-priced oil to a world labelled 'Inflation refinery'. The accompanying headline quote reads: "Inflation in the industrialised nations was OPEC's reason for the oil price rise ..." Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Sid Scales; Recto - beneath image - ODT. 30-9-75 [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 280 x 380 mm Provenance: Donated by Sid Scales in 1998

Date: [2008]

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

Reference: A-453-014

Description: Shows a peasant couple looking at the change that has been left to him by a marauding Viking (Oil Companies) who has taken their money and burnt their house. Refers to petrol prices. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 3012A8CARTOON 156.8mm x 132.1 Pls correct and send to GNZHARTPIX + MediaGrid [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and felt-tip pen on paper, 210-300 mm

Date: 1972-1974

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-230

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicts Norman Kirk, Prime Minister talking to a farmer who holds a cow on a rope and carries a newspaper which reads "PM says plant trees. Newsprint is answer to oil crisis". Kirk holds a briefcase with labels from countries he has recently visited, including India, Singapore and Indonesia, and says "Where will you get your milk, meat, butter and eggs? - from the supermarket like everyone else!" Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, felt pen within printed Ronken frame, 202 x 292mm.

Date: 1970s

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-043

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicting a man in a suit (probably a politician) with a lightning bolt from his pointed figure striking a figure named "Oil companies" which has four heads on one body and says "Don’t point - it's rude". The dog character stares angrily at the oil companies figure and thinks "or crude". Relates to an oil crisis in New Zealand, probably late 1973-early 1974 when Arab oil producers cut supply due to the war with Israel and oil prices soared. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, charcoal within printed Ronken frame, 202 x 292mm. Printing notes in blue biro.

Date: 1957-1976

From: Employers' and Manufacturers' Association (Central) Inc : Records

Reference: 2000-222-108/02

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1920-1922]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-032

Description: Comprises annual reports for Wellington Meat Export Company (1921-1922); correspondence and submissions re Star Oil and the Texas Company; draft letter and transcription of telegram (1922) Quantity: 1 folder(s).