Arithmetic

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-655-001/037

Description: 37 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. A panda bear sits and swings the five Olympic rings in its paws with Olympic officials commenting on China's successful bid for the Olympic games. Comment on ASH's view of underage smoking - two children walk past a cinema and a man in an alleyway furtively offers to show them pictures of people smoking. Comment on Jim Anderton's aim for a 'Peoples Bank' - Jenny Shipley is portrayed as a bank teller sitting under a signd your breath'. Public cynicism of Michael Cullen's proposed Superannuation scheme. Farmers discussing their lack of confidence in ENZA. Cartoonist's reaction to the disparity between the financial levels of sports peoples and other people when being assessed to be published on the 'rich list'. Comment on the publication that 'kiwi kids' are overweight. A male ironing clothing offers comment on Helen Clark Jenny Shipley Silvia Cartwright Sian Elias and Michelle Boag being in positions of power. Comment by a male sitting down to breakfast that deer velvet being a sex aid is 'bunkum'. Michael Cullen is shown standing next to a poker machine called 'Future Super' indication it is the helath and education monines that the poker machine needs to work on. Comment on the outcome of Max Bradford's electricity reforms. Max Bradford is in an electricial repair shop being told that if the article he brought for repair was not broken before Bradford tried to fix it it is broken now. Helen Clark Parekura Horomia and Michael Cullen presenting their individual position on the issue of Maori TV A schoolteacher chastises Max Bradford for blaming others. Michael Cullen and Helen Clark watch two overweight dogs named Super and Maori TV eating while two thin dogs named Education and Health are straining at their leads for food. A nurse opens the expectant fathers waiting room door to tell Mr Anderton to go home and he will be notified if there is any sign of labour getting serious. Early visitors arrive on the shores of New Zealand with the comment that the natives may regret not having an immigration policy. Christine Rankin wears two very large earings one labled 'winzum' the other 'lose some'. Comment on the news that the right-of-way road rule is to be revised. Jim Anderton Helen Clark and Michael Cullen cling to a life raft identified as Beneficiary Voting Block with two boaties in the background commenting that even the knowledge wave did not loosen their grip. Comment on Helen Clark's support for funding going to the arts. Comment on Laila Harre and holiday shopping Finger pointing from Pete Hodgson and Max Bradford as to who is to blame for the electricity reforms not working/ Rugby fans pay their first visit to Dunedin and pass comment on the wearing of tartan trousers. Shows a bloody battle of Gengis Khan's army. Word is being passed around to forget about the plundering and go for the 'bonus point'. Refers to the NZ cricket teams decision to stop their point scoring run glut against Australia and take the bonus point offered by a technicality. Shows two young school boys discussing public educations failure to teach reading, writing and numeracy. Shows Jim Anderton on the steps of Treasury with water flooding under the front doors and down the steps. Comment on Anderton's attempts to stop the 'leaks' coming from Treasury. Comment on the public boredom over multi-millionaire Steve Fossett's attempts to fly around the world non-stop in a hot-air balloon. Shows Marian Hobbs with a large wind instrument wrapped around her playing 'NZ Music' to a man who represents the NZ public. He has a large flat neck collar on representing the new NZ music quota. The collar prevents him from putting his fingers in his ears should not wish to listen to the music. Shows mother explaining to her crying children that their father is now going to play golf rather than take them sailing. The change is due to their father being agitated by NZ Professional Golfer Grant Waite's performance. Comment on prison staff's industrial 'go-slow' and the opportunities it creates for prisoners to escape. Shows a large area of forestry being felled for the sake of sending 'positive signals' to overseas companies. Shows an elderly couple, justifying to a squad of police officers at their front door, that they are doing all they can in the nationwide drive to save electricity. Shows Marian Hobbs introducing a rock band called 'Marian and the quotas'. Shows Sam Neill at the Jurassic Park 3 movie premiere with an old pre-historic friend. Shows a woman in an art gallery asking if a framed display is a piece of art. The gallery worker assures her it is and explains that it is Creative New Zealand's justification for their travel expenditure. Quantity: 37 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on sheets 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1958 - 1962

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

Reference: A-310-099

Description: Walter Nash and Arnold Nordmeyer as bright schoolboys. Nordmeyer (Minister of Finance) is being hit on the back of the head by a large heavy book that has been thrown at him by the auditor-general's comments. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1890 - 1999

By: John Dickinson & Co.; Marcus, Ward & Company; Olympic Stationery Ltd; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; William Collins, Sons & Company

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOL-EXERCISE-BOOKS

Description: Includes: 1890s?: J Braithwaite (Dunedin) :Exercise book. Fine thick paper. J Braithwaite, bookseller and stationer, Dunedin. [1890s?] William Collins, Sons & Company. The Progressive copy books, with engraved & traced head lines & divisional lines. Nos 2, 6 (2 copies) and 10 1910s?: Marcus Ward & Co. Ld, Belfast. Marcus Ward's improved writing copy book [1910s?] Thos Beecham, St Helen's Lancashire. Beecham's help to scholars, containing arithmetical tables and signs, weights and measures and other useful information [ca 1910-1920s] Arithmetical tables for the use of schools. Printed by Alex Mayne, Belfast, 1910-1920s? 1890-1920s?: King Edward Technical College Dunedin. Penmanship and commercial correspondence. [Exercise book]. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. G2272 [1890-1920s?] 1906: The unrivalled exercise book. Name Gladys Thompson, Standard VI. 32 pages [1906] 1930s?: The Otorohanga exercise book. Name Jocelyn Veale, Standard VI [1930s?] Standard combined copy and exercise book no. 2 [1930s?] ca 1934: Whitcombes progressive copy books. No. 1 [ca 1934?] Whitcombes progressive copy books. No. 5 [ca 1934; dated from advertisement for Whitcombes contour atlas on back cover; this is advertised in the Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21078, 1 February 1934, page 3] 1940s?: Southern Cross exercise book; the exercise book with good paper. Registered No. 1700. Superfine ivory finished paper. [1940-1950s? - possibly 1954 with Haines-54 advertisement on back cover] (blue cover) Southern Cross exercise book; the exercise book with good paper. Registered No. 1700. Superfine ivory finished paper. Re-order no. 2 [1940-1950s?, advertising Eversharp pens & pencils on back cover - book previously used by M Bunton of West Eyreton School] Southern Cross exercise book; the exercise book with good paper. Registered No. 1700. Superfine ivory finished paper. [1940-1950s?] (orange cover) 1950s: Croxley exercise book 1J. 32 leaves, ruled 4 lines to 1 inch. Lion brand. A John Dickinson production. Olympic K school exercise book. 24 leaves, ruled 4 lines to one inch. Manufactured by R Thompson (1948) Ltd, Wellington 1950/1960s: All Schools exercise book. 1K. NZ Standard exercise book. 24 leaves, ruled 4 lines to 1 inch Olympic 1F school exercise book. NZSS362 licence no. 7, ruled 3 lines to inch. Manufactured by Olympic Stationery Ltd, Wellington (Illustration of the ship 'Dominion Monarch' on back cover) Olympic 1H school exercise book. NZSS362 licence no. 7. 32 leaves ruled 3 lines to inch STP science exercise book. [Printed by] A O Rice. 1960s?] 1970s?: Class 1B4, for school use. 32 leaves ruled 7mm. Manufactured by Alex Cowan & Sons (N.Z.) Ltd Pacific school exercise book 1F4. Lience NZ2122. 24 leaves, 12 mm feints (With waka carving on front cover) Quantity: 2 box(es). Physical Description: booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm. Provenance: One item donated by the estate of Rachel Louisa Harcourt in 1966; one by Mrs A M M Ramsay in 1966; one by Shirley Meggett 2007, Norma Evans, in 2010-2011.

Date: 1830

By: Kemp, Richard Webb, 1818?-1891

Reference: MS-1106

Description: Contains arithmetic rules and problems Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 150 pages). Physical Description: Ms (20 cm; green cloth)

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[25 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in September and October, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-252

Description: Cartoon shows a man pondering financial sums in a thought bubble. Other Titles - September Other Titles - One; Zero; Nought An Exocet missile was an anti-ship missile designed for attacking small- to medium-size warships (e.g. frigates, corvettes, and destroyers) (Information from Wikipedia 15 March 2011) Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 174 x 268 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1960

By: A H & A W Reed (Firm)

Reference: Eph-F-MATHEMATICS-1950s-01

Description: Set of identical "Try it on" number cards, published by AH & AW Reed. The card consists of a grid with the numbers 1-10 down the left side of the grid and the letters A-J along the top. Column E has single digit numbers; all the rest are double digits. 39 copies of this card are in the set. An explanation of the uses of this set of cards is published in "Arithmetic in the standards" [1940-1950s?], page 5. (at Eph-B-PUBLISHER-Reed-1950s?) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on set of cards. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on card 128 x 102 mm.

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0008795

Description: Shows Prime Minister, John Key, standing at a blackboard on which is written an equation relating to limited budgets, number of people requiring expensive treatments, an emotive breast cancer campaign, drug studies and the funding of the 12 month herceptin treatment. A small boy stands beside him and comments that they say that kiwi kids are bad at maths. Refers to the fact that the new National government has decided to fund the controversial treatment. Colour version of DCDL-0008794 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1882

By: Caledonian Society of Otago; George, Thomas, -1889

Reference: Eph-B-MATHEMATICS-1882-01

Description: Certificate with an ornate coloured border with circular decorations in each of the four corners. There is a gold shield with a rampant lion in the lower left corner. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured relief print with gilt, on card 317 x 254 mm. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-201-0171 - Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from there.

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0003873

Description: A small boy has written '2+2=5' on the classroom blackboard. His teacher tells him that it might be close enough to get a job in a finance company but that doesn't mean it is right. Refers to the collapse of a number of finance companies and fears that panic may cause good companies to collapse unnecessarily. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0008794

Description: Shows Prime Minister, John Key, standing at a blackboard on which is written an equation relating to limited budgets, number of people requiring expensive treatments, an emotive breast cancer campaign, drug studies and the funding of the 12 month herceptin treatment. A small boy stands beside him and comments that they say that kiwi kids are bad at maths. Refers to the fact that the new National government has decided to fund the controversial treatment. B&W version of DCDL-0008795 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).