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Date: 1985

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-424

Description: Shows three vignettes. In the first a disgruntled looking farmer is watching as armed forces personnel put up a barbed wire fence. The officer is telling him that the government is erecting barbed wire around the coastline. In the second a topdressing pilot is being told to drop bombs instead of fertiliser in the event of any hostilities. In the third an officer is standing on Mt Victoria in Wellington and telling his men that the old signal gun is to be turned around and pointed over Cook Strait. He is holding a 'Capital Defence Plan'. Extended Title - In view of the present economic situation, the government may have to consider defence "on the cheap" - Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, chinese white, crayon and letratone on paper, 350 x 408 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1903 - 1904

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning fences and their construction]

By: Anchor Fence Company of New Zealand Ltd; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FENCE-1903-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available. There are illustrations of the Anchor clamp and ratchet, a method for setting end corner posts, styles of 6-wire fences, wire-bound gates, the Anchor fence hurdle, ornamental fences (six designs shown), and residence gates. Includes photographs of staff at the Anchor Fence company, with buildings of the Massey-Harris Company adjacent. There are also photographs of fences on the properties of S I Ffitch esq Dallington, and H P Slater esq Sandilands, New Brighton Road. Page 30 shows testimonials from S I Ffitch (Dallington, Christchurch), W B Clarkson (Riccarton, Christchurch), Gilbert Jackson (Christchurch), H P Slater (Christchurch). The cover shows an illustration of a farmer surveying an injured horse lying with its legs entangled in a barbed wire fence while another horse and sheep look on. The implication is that the entangling fence is of inferior brand to the adjacent Anchor fence. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 32 pages, 103 x 165 mm.

Date: 1953

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works

Reference: Plans-80-1377

Description: Details of fence posts, reinforcement, plan at corner, elevation of fence at corner, showing a 13-wire barbed wire security fence. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning fences and their construction]

Reference: Eph-A-FENCE-1900s-01

Description: Illustrated booklet showing different fences and gates available. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 36 pages, 245 x 150 mm.

Date: 1883

From: Nairn, Betsey Wright, -1906 :Sketchbook

Reference: E-443-q-023

Description: Shows two scenes: in the top half 'Leaving Collingwood for Nelson', the small steamer "Lady Barkley" is being loaded with trunks, while the passengers walk on board along the gangplank behind their trunks. In the lower half 'Last ride in Nelson', two women mounted on horses, walk towards a gate in the left foreground. The foreground fence has a row of barbed wire for its top wire. On the right, faintly sketched in, is part of a house, with a garden archway alongside. Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - [First title]; Recto - bottom left - [Second title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 225 x 195 mm.

Date: 2003

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

Reference: DX-014-127

Description: Shows a helmeted kiwi guarding the beach on Kapiti Island against eco-terrorists. The beach is surrounded with coils of barbed wire. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 8 August 1981

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

By: Menzies, Stuart, active 1981-2004

Reference: EP-Ethics-Demonstrations-1981 Springbok Tour-01

Description: Original Evening Post caption reads: "While the Springboks played Southland at Invercargill's Rugby Park on Saturday, a line of police, ordered to watch the crowd and not the game, man a barricade of barbed wire ringing the playing field. The wire was laid on Friday by soldiers against a possible invasion of the ground by demonstrators." Photographed on 8th August 1981 by Stuart Menzies and printed in the Evening Post newspaper on 10th August 1981. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.6 x 21.7 cm