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Date: 1967 - 1970

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-032

Description: Workers for the Natural gas Company explain to an irate householder why they are installing a gas pipe parallel to the power lines using the electrical power poles as support. Extended Title - Natural Gas Company. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Reproduction of black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 358 x 514 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1969

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-033

Description: The words 'natural gas potential' are loaming out of Tom Shand's pipe to the alarm of the power board men gathered around the seance table. Extended Title - The possibility of discovering vast quantities of natural gas in NZ must be taken into account - Mr Shand at the Electrical Supply Authorities conference. Natural gas potential. Power Boards Seance, Tom Shand, medium. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 320 x 481 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-030

Description: Tom Shand, New Zealand Minister of Mines and of Electricity, is holding a bottle from which a genie, labelled Kapuni, is emerging to the alarm of watching men labelled power boards and coal. Mount Taranaki is in the background. Extended Title - Kapuni. Power Boards. Coal. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 291 x 397 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-029

Description: A plumber is waving his plumbers' wench gleeflully, showing off a complex tangle of pipes labelled 'Kapuni Negotiations', with a signed proped against them reading 'Kapuni Gas Strike Aug 1959'. Extended Title - Man! It's a gas! Kapuni negotiations. Kapuni gas strike Aug 1959. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, crayon and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 288 x 428 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1984

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-336-109

Description: Shows a hitchhiker with a very large backpack hitching to Marsden Point. He is wearing a t-shirt with the slogan 'Think Big' on it. A wary looking motorist approaches from the left. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card 190 x 235 mm Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-031

Description: Four 'cavalry' representing the power boards and using electrical power poles as lances are charging into a circle of gas pipes which are firing like canons. Refers to the competition natural gas was now giving the electricity industry. Extended Title - Power Boards. Natural Gas. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. 350 x 480 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-028

Description: Natural gas is portrayed as a greyhound asleep in the starting gate while power charges as the hare race off. He is watched by a bemused New Zealand Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake, men representing the power boards and a frustrated man representing the general public. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 288 x 415 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1982

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022118

Description: Shows Energy Minister Bill Birch as chief of 'Birch Construction'. Workers manoeuvre great blocks representing various 'Think Big' projects but 'Fletcher' and 'CSR' are having difficulty shifting a block named 'Aramoana' which has split. Context: The Government's "Think Big" projects were all having difficulties to varying degrees. The aluminium smelter at Aramoana in Dunedin was scuttled by protesters. (Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1981

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022099

Description: Shows Bill Birch, Minister of Energy, on the phone. He asks the person he is calling if he is still interested in his scheme to build a methane plant on his chicken run. Context: National's "think big" policy was starting to meet problems as one scheme after another struck problems. Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).