Places

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016888

Description: An air hostess tells the pilot that 'a group of Bridgecorp investors have occupied all the toilets and would like [him] to fly over the home of a Mister Rod Petricevic'. Context - Rod Petricevic is one of the former Bridgecorp directors along with Robert Roest. Petricevic and Roest, the managing director and chief financial officer respectively of the failed finance company, appeared in the Auckland District Court 18 January 2011 charged with the fraudulent acquisition of a $1.8 million luxury boat using Bridgecorp investors' money. Petricevic also faces a separate charge of making dishonest payments of $1.2m of Bridgecorp funds to a business entity called ABb. (NZH 18 January 2011) Colour and black and white versions available. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0017141

Description: Across the top of the cartoon is the text 'Another chapter in the Whitcoulls story' and below is a substantial book with 'W' on its cover and a bookmark bearing the words 'Under administration'. Context - REDgroup's unsecured New Zealand creditors were owed $21.5 million when the company, which owns the Whitcoulls retail chain, went into voluntary administration in February 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0015573

Description: The cartoon is entitled 'seismic upheaval'. Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English stand near great seismic cracks in the ground and stare sadly at a huge wallet, 'Bill's boodle', belonging to Bill English. Vast quantities of banknotes spill out of the cash pocket in the wallet which also contains a 'travel card', a 'house card' and an 'expenses card'. The various cards in the wallet refer to expense account embarrassments relating to Bill English. Etched in the ground are the words 'Christchurch quake' and 'South Canterbury Finance'. The cartoon refers to two major events in the Canterbury area in recent times that have incurred huge government costs; these are the collapse of the South Canterbury Finance Company and the earthquake that struck early Saturday morning 4th September. The South Canterbury Finance Company has been taken into receivership by the government which has guaranteed that all 30,000 fortunate high-risk investors will be paid out $1.6b thanks to the taxpayer. Treasury is assuming that the cost of the earthquake will reach $4 billion, including $2 billion worth of estimated damage to private dwellings and their contents, $1 billion of damage to commercial property, and $1 billion worth of damage to public infrastructure. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016255

Description: A member of the 'rich list' on a launch named 'Rich Listers Fortune' nearly spills his champagne; he shouts at the sweating 'taxpayer' who is rowing the dinghy that tows the launch saying 'keep it steady I've got a full glass'. A second dinghy named 'Finance Co' is tied to the back of the launch and slowly sinks. In the sea floats a newspaper with the heading 'Rich listers up for govt bailout'. In a second version the launch is named 'Rich List' but is otherwise the same as the first cartoon. Refers to the news that the failed finance company 'Equitable Mortgages' has gone into receivership. Taxpayers could be paying as much as $178 million to bail out the failed finance company which is owned by one of New Zealand's wealthiest families, that of the late Peter Spencer. Calling in the receivers triggers a bailout under the Government's retail deposit guarantee scheme, set up to protect investors after a wave of finance company collapses. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).