Speed traps

Date: 1986 - 1988

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-144-506/541

Description: Includes cartoons about: Concealed speed traps on private property; world oil prices plummet; robbers hold people up to get their rail tickets; Railways likened to snails; "We're taking the train" involves picking up the train and carrying it; Aratika storm in a teacup; warrant of fitness stickers indecipherable on some cars; defendant claims a road barrier crashed into him; gang members ask for a supplementary benefit for petrol; taxi firms fear gang takeover if delicensing goes ahead; road safety blitz wanted; road transport trucks threatening Railways' survival; lamb tallow fuel for diesels; scrapping of the North Island main trunk electrification system; rail service guards may be called on to clean and serve meals; traffic accidents in Ngauranga Gorge; Richard Prebble suggests that the Tory Channel overhead cable be lowered; ferry strikes cause desperate suggestions for remedies about digging tunnels under Cook Strait; Ann Hercus' chauffeur told to drive across airport runway; railways painted their carriages; motorist suffering from car insurance prices, tax increases, depreciation, service charges, vehicle registration, etc; private cars preferred to trains, because of frequent strikes by rail workers; the public blase about the Christmas road toll; Kupe oil well spouts up; Boeing 737's likened to a flying bathtub; rumour of ferry sales; Nissan may use plane cockpits in cars; Governor General Sir Paul Reeves pleads with Richard Prebble not to sell Railways despite the completion of the electrification scheme being half an hour late; redundancies in Railways will get it out of the red; plan to ban all cars from city centre; cable car repair stoppage is too long; children drive their drunken parents home; Wellington to put in a strong bid for lucrative Soviet maintenance contract; Searail revamp cuts 64 jobs. 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. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 36 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-388-015

Description: Shows four frames. In the first frame two women are passing a police car with a speed camera on the back. One woman says to the other, 'Those are darn good things. They're to stop those fool speed hogs - and I've never seen a better detergent.' The second frame shows a man frowning while registering his vehicle. In the third frame, the same man is renewing his car licence. The final frame shows a car slipping around on a frosty road Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-388-022

Description: Shows four frames. In the first frame, two policemen are standing next to their car which has a speed camera on it. In the second frame, the speed camera has caught someone, and the policemen are rushing to write tickets. The third frame shows the policemen looking alarmed because the speed camera is shaking and making noises. In the last frame, a jet is flying above the car, causing the speed camera to explode and the policemen to jump back in fright Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1991 - 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-144-403/428

Description: Includes cartoons about: Police arrest men wearing threatening T-shirts; the manhunt for criminal Dean Wickliffe; prison security at Paremoremo Prison; guns for grocieries amnesty; police greet John Banks the Minister of Police; petty crime in New Zealand; Ross Meurant selling guns to overseas buyers; Robert Philpott released after short time in prison; successful bank robbers will be able to afford their son's university education; police handout teddy bears to distressed children; judges reject pay-rise; total drinking ban on teenage drivers; Black Power gathering gets conditional approval; parents chide drug-pusher; gangs attack public violently; frightened dairy owners have guns under the counter; judges no longer wear wigs; Prime Minister Bolger talks to a cardboard cut-out of Police Minister John Banks; speed video cameras should be used wisely; a victim of violent crime; police arrest murderer of English tourist Margery Hopegood;many lawyers in prison; women in the Police Force; extremely short prison sentences; cheaper to keep prisoners at the Ritz than in prison; wearing a white collar may ensure a lighter sentence. 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: 26 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1993

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald cartoons 1993

Reference: H-015-011

Description: Shows someone examining a filmstrip of Mike Moore with a magnifying glass and finding one frame in which he is not talking. Refers to Mike Moore's garrulousness and to the introduction of speed cameras Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 3 July 2006

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

Reference: A-453-218

Description: Shows a journalist interviewing a police officer about police public relations. The police office is in the meantime hiding behind a hedge clocking up speeding cars with a speed camera. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - Leader page cartoon Tuesday 04 CARTOON 186mm x 133 Pls scan, correct and send to Pix-on-hand [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-140

Description: Photographs relating to traffic and railways, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Includes images relating to private cable cars Images relating to traffic are arranged alphabetically from S to T Images relating to railways are arranged alphabetically from B to RA Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1993

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949- :New Zealand Herald cartoons 1 - 30 June 1993

Reference: H-065-021

Description: Shows three photos, the first of a car speeding along a road, the second of the car doing a U-turn and the third of the car, with Bill Birch at the wheel, speeding back down the road. Refers to the government's u-turns on the health reforms, and to the introduction of speed cameras Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1983 - 1985

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-144-486/505

Description: Includes cartoons about: Management Board meetings at the Ford Motor Company; starving OPEC service stations offering free oil changes with every litre sold; railway staff put tacks on the road to stop road transport trucks; oil baron meets water baron; increase in vehicle fees; NZ Railways struggling to keep long-distance passenger services going; huge road transporters allowed on the roads (as from October 1983); non-user-friendly ferry staff kick passengers out on the wharf; huge juggernauts (trucks) on the roads; diesel expected to rise in price and affect rail prices; broken promise to take lead out of petrol; petrol as expensive as wine and served by a waiter; railways hurt by road transport and the "Picton issue"; planes possibly preferable to radar for catching speesters; Petrocorp strikes it lucky; speed limits for big haulage trucks; Railways celebrate 50 years' service; 100 kph limit on the road; kitset car glued together by purchaser; Visa card used to pay for a single ticket to Petone; Marden Point, NZ Steel, Synthetic fuel, and an ammonia-urea plant all make their way to a white elephant's graveyard; the dire consequences of the removal of guard staff from trains; imagine Cook Strait dried up and people could dispense with ferries; Wellington parking fees double - credit card payment an option? 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: 20 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1993

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald; Cartoons, 3 August - 28 August, 1993

Reference: H-013-004

Description: Shows a National Party car, driven by Jim Bolger, being caught by a speed camera, while the driver of a Labour Party car is peering under its bonnet. Refers to the introduction of speed cameras and to National's favourable rating in opinionm pollls Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1970 - 1979

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-144-434/456

Description: Includes cartoons about: the "Arahura" which may venture farther from the shore than little boats; railways soil their own tracks; Air New Zealand and New Zealand Rail both show losses; cardboard cut-outs of speed patrol cars; the driver of a get-away car conserves petrol by going slowly and will therefore be caught; the extra dangers of 60 m.p.h. rather than 50 m.p.h.; unkempt ferry crew makes a complainant into sausage rolls; pigeon droppings on the railway booking office; the beneficial effects of the drink-drive blitz put the Grim Reaper out of a job; father practises on a skateboard to conserve fuel; a conference attended by parties involved in the fuel row; the uncertainty of petrol supplies; Ministry of Transport Annual mess dinner; more suburban train delays; rich people use different cars on different days of the week to combat the "Car-less Day" scheme of petrol rationing; combatting the delays on the Cook Strait ferry by fashioning dirigible balloons and attaching them to the tops of buses; the Governor-General is banned from the bus on his carless day, because he is wearing a ceremonial sword; carless day pick-ups; energy farming of petrol from pine trees; the government investigates how to stop financial loss on the railways; Maui developers left with $3 million worth of pipes; Muslim bows down before OPEC oil rigs; oil hikes and oil strikes; petrol rationing on the way, means father takes back for his own use the bike he was going to give his son for Christmas. 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: 1980 - 1982

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-144-457/485

Description: Includes cartoons about: Chinese invention to switch off car motor when alcohol is detected; drinking fruit juice after watching a car crash on television; dilapidated shipyard; the consumer ambushed by rising petrol and electricity prices; new head-scanner for Wellington used on ferry officers and engineers; tankers boats (including the "Aramoana") and planes used as homes because there is no fuel; Wellington bus drivers strike; the end of carless days (13 May 1980); bad working conditions for railway signalmen; flight simulators to teach pilots; New Zealand Railways makes a loss of $89 million in 1979/80; Offshore oil search off the West Coast; "Go easy on energy"; the public's bad attitude to drink-driving; railway staff fear reporting faults because they may be sacked; rail fares increase; removal of buffet cars from trains; the launching of the Ark Royal III; scientists propose making fuel from grass; an oil change for NASA?; Volvo shuttle service will tax ratepayers; 64 more Hungarian rail units wanted by Railways; neither service yet a reality; dairies annoyed at garages selling milk; the railways pies indigestible on the Cook Strait ferry; recruiting ferry staff from all over the country; the Silver Star is a "great train robbery" from taxpayers' point of view; Volvo is a "streetcar named Disaster"; Wellington regional ratepayers will support Railways. 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: 29 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1994

From: Dower, Mark 1949- :Cartoon entries for Qantas Media Awards, 1994. 3 March 1994 to 22 December 1994

Reference: H-231-008

Description: Shows a suspicious looking man wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a long trench coat. He is standing on the side of a road with his hands in his pockets. In the next scene he has opened up his coat to reveal another man, whose shoulders he is sitting on, taking a photograph of a car that has speed past. Refers to the introduction of hidden speed cameras. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2001

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-005-161

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: May 1975

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/4-022498-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005207

Description: Shows a police officer with a speed camera which is displaying a menu from which he is about to select either families, old ladies or real hoons (not applicable). At the bottom of the menu is buttons for entering speed and fine and a delete button. The speed camera is directed to a car that is approaching on the road in front of the officer. Refers to public opinion that police speed cameras do not focus on the real speeding culprits. Published in The Press, 15 March 2005 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: 2009

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0011219

Description: A bus and a truck tear past but the helpless traffic officer is at a loss as to what to do because his new digital camera says thay are going at 400 kph when they are only doing 200. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

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

Reference: DX-022-230

Description: A couple, the woman driving, are speeding along a country road in their car; the man warns the driver to slow down because of speed cameras. She doesn't think she'll be caught because she is fully clothed; the suggestion being that the police have interests other than speed when they film. Other Titles - "Hardly likely!..I'm fully clothed!" Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 1955

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1955/2730-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: 2003

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0001422

Description: "The Politician" cartoon strip. The Minister is making a speech. He assures the audience that the only reason they are putting more speed cameras on the roads is to save lives. He then tells them that all the lovely extra money will go into the health sector. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).