Places

Date: 1955

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: B-148-074

Description: Shows a map of Australia and New Zealand, Australia being covered with rabbits, kangaroos, snakes, explorers, dancers and bathing beauties. New Zealand is inhabited by a beer-drinking Maori. Down the left side is an alphabet rhyme with a verse for each letter of the word "AUSTRALIA". The original work was signed by members: Ray Kemp, Bill Sunley, W Pilliet Pringle, G T Mackay, J L Rogers, I A Nicol, {>?} Mclennan?, Robert Carruthers, {>?} Denis, S London, D S Campbell, A A Cooper?, Les Tyler, R R Hayman, Procter, J Stacey, S C Bender? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - L. C. Mitchell Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink and pencil drawing, 280 x 374 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1905 - 1915

From: Low, David 1891-1963 :Caricatures and cartoons [ca 1905-1916]

Reference: B-025-001

Description: A poor man glumly watching a second-hand dealer who is saying 'I gif you two bob' and holding up a pair of the man's trousers. The dealer's doorway is visible and bears the sign 'I. Solomon Dealer. Old Clothes Bought.' The cartoon suggests that the dealer is Jewish and not English-born as well as being parsimonious The dealer's name may be imaginary Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 202 x 131 mm

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951); Listener (Periodical)

Reference: A-369-021/040

Description: A collection of caricatures and drawings, mostly depicting New Zealand sportsmen who flourished in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes rugby All Blacks Billy Wallace and Stan Dean, a player whose surname is Drake and another unnamed. The speedway champions depicted are Harold Fairhurst, Percy Coleman and Rich Tunbridge. Cyclist and speedway manager Gerry Mathieson is also included. An elaborate illustration 'A Night at the Opera' depicts a Wellington performance of Puccini's Madame Butterfly and features singers Leo Piccioli, Aldo, Ferracuti, Mercedes Fortunati and Maria Huder, as well as the stage manager Bruno Nofri. A number of smaller cartoons illustrate various happenings in the sporting arena and daily life. Quantity: 19 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newsclippings stuck onto wallpaper, sizes vary.

Date: 26 Aug 1993

From: Women in science oral history project

By: Szaszy, Mira, 1921-2001

Reference: OHInt-0624/6

Description: Mira Szaszy was born in Waihopo, near Kaitaia, to a Yugoslav father and a Maori mother. Recalls growing up in Te Hapua, moving to Auckland as a teenager and attending Queen Victoria College and Auckland Girls' Grammar. Describes training as a teacher, doing her BA and possibly being the first Maori woman graduate. Describes teaching at Kaikohe High School before getting in to welfare work in the Department of Maori Affairs. Recalls the support of Prime Minister Peter Fraser in getting into a post graduate course in social sciences at the University of Hawaii. Describes returning to New Zealand to work and confronting prejudice as she did not fit the stereotype of a Maori woman. Comments on suspicion of her academic background. Describes difficulties in being appointed to the position of Secretary of the Maori Womens' Welfare League. Recalls becoming a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) in 1990 and becoming a Commissioner of the Waitangi Tribunal Fisheries Commission in 1993. Discusses problems of identity for young Maori. Interviewer(s) - Paula Martin Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s). 1 interview(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available OHA-3557 forms only.

Date: 1995 - 2009

From: [Ephemera relating to telephones, telephone exchanges and subscribers. 1900- ]

By: Telecom Corporation of New Zealand; Robertson, Brett, active 1990-2000s; Squares, Tony, active 2000s

Reference: Eph-A-TELEPHONE-Cards-2000/2009

Description: Includes: $5 cards: Lake Pukaki South Canterbury New Zealand. Expiry date September 2008; National Bank Talk Away Tertiary Plus $10 cards: World Wide Fund for Nature New Zealand - Tuatara, New Zealand's living fossil going back 225 million years. Photo Brett Robertson; New Zealand holiday - Strawberry sunscreem choc dipped ice-cream, home-made mayonnaise, lunchtime, lazy days; Future champions [child cyclist] $20 cards: Sports series - swimming in New Zealand, photography by Tony Squares; Star Trek, the cold enemy - expiry date 13/06/2007; World Wildlife Fund for Nature New Zealand - Hooker's sea lion; Games for your mobile - "Italian Job" 2006 Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on plastic cards. Physical Description: Photolithographs on plastic cards, 55 x 85 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-072/088

Description: Collection of political cartoons published in The Southern Cross that mainly relating to Sidney Holland and his conservative policies. Some cartoons are specific to the Wellington region; there is reference to a cannon test and the Wellington Baker's Association (president H.E. Fariey). International issues are adressed. This includes an Indonesian police coup and the continuing problems that Britain faced in the aftermath of World War II. There is also an advertisement for the National Savings Bank. Quantity: 13.

Date: 1994

From: Ball, Murray 1939-2017: Collection

By: Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017

Reference: J-045-011

Description: Shows Wal and Dog leaving the pub where everyone has been toasting his try against the international side. Wal has one of his arms in a sling. He walks back to where he got the try and jumps jubilantly into the air, yelling and clicking his heel together. Dog looks skyward, thanking God for helping Wal overcomet over Cheeky Hobson leaving him. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Extended Title - 'Wal's sort of a hero - he scored a try against the international side - he should be happy...But goodness knows what could help him get over Cheeky Hobson leaving him like that...The scene of his triumph.' 'YEE HAY-HAY!' 'Thank you sir, you are very kind and wise.' Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopy Processing information: Record updated on 29 June 2023 when the access and use conditions were updated per the agreement with Diogenes Designs Limited for the Murray Ball Estate.

Date: 1910 - 1920

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-014

Description: Nineteen vignettes of daily life, mostly of Maori life, including a parody of a Goldie portrait (All 'e same te Pakeha) showing an elderly Maori man grimacing and quaffing rum; a Maori woman with toothache; "A hero of many fights", a profile view of a tattooed man with many bandages on his face; "On the Waipa", a Maori woman rowing as she drinks alcohol, with a small boy and a pig eyeing one another in the front of the canoe. Also scenes of European, or not racially specific life: "The end of the garden" showing a cow chewing up planted carrots; "Crossing the Manukau Bar" with people vomitting over the edge of a ship in high waves; "Roses" with a Pakeha man with a drinker's red nose; "In the Domain" showing groups of lovers embracing; "The Emerald Isle" showing Irishmen murdering each other; "Waiting to be shod" showing two old hacks waiting for shoeing at the blacksmith's, while the blacksmith embraces a woman. The original for a drawing published in the Auckland Weekly news, 20 July 1905, supplement p. 5. Other Titles - Scenes of Maori life [former title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. L. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 362 x 530 mm

Date: 1909 - 1920

From: [Postcard album of cards donated by Mrs Brabin. 1909-1920s].

By: Brabin, Agnes, 1929-; Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: Eph-F-POSTCARD-Vol-1-11-1

Description: Shows the interior of a Maori home, with the father trying to wash his screaming child in a pan on the floor. The mother smokes a pipe and reading the gossip column of the paper in a deckchair, toasting her feet on the stove though her elegant boots are on the floor nearby. Another son makes himself smart in the back room, struggling with his tie. The family all have European clothes and live in a European house, but through the back door is a whare and pigs root in the back yard while a dog sits in the doorway. Context: The cartoon is an illustration of a popular view of Maori by European immigrants of the time who regarded themselves as rather more sophisticated, perhaps 'civilised'. The cartoon reflects an attitude of mockery at Maori attempts to imitate Pakeha behaviour. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard in album.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 84 x 139 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs A S Brabin in 1980.

Date: 1908

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-033

Description: A set of vignettes, supposedly representing pictures shown at the Auckland Society of Arts. The central view, a caricature of a Goldie portrait, titled 'A study of Maori life. A noble specimen of a fast vanishing race' shows an elderly Maori woman in pain and having a front tooth pulled out with a piece of cord. From top left the other views include 'Where is my boy tonight', a portrait of a seated middle-aged woman; 'The roadless North', a man being thrown from his horse; 'Get away little fly', a dog unable to reach a fly on the end of its nose; 'The curly-headed coon', an absent-minded professor smoking a pipe; 'The Pie-oneer's story - I've a sick wife and 19 children at home', showing a man receiving charity in the shape of a hot pie; 'Fish oh!', a Chinese fishmonger with a basket of stinking fish; 'The father of the Pah' showing an elderly Maori man; 'A cold beauty' showing a young woman; 'The white cow', showing a girl fleeing from a cow tied by its tail to a tree; 'Kiss me' showing a young woman, her eyes closed and lips pursed; 'Twenty-six by twenty' showing a young couple, the woman seated on the man's knee; 'Ph tuck me in my little bed' showing an elderly Maori woman asleep; 'The coming of the fleet' showing Maori canoes as steamships with American flags; 'A farm scene' showing a man dragging two reluctant horses; 'Cheap - an art patron' showing a kiwi and a man in bowler hat viewing pictures on the wall and placing pennies in a bowl extended by the hand of one portrait. Published in the Auckland Weekly on 21 May 1908, supplement p.5 with the title 'Our comic artist's impressions of the Auckland Society of Arts annual exhibition' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. L. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 363 x 520 mm

Date: 1905 - 1909

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-024

Description: Shows Europeans as slaves of Maori landlords. In the centre is a large Maori man, smoking a cigar and having his boots polished by a young Pakeha male who is using 'Te Kuiti polish'. The Maori man has a bottle of alcohol at his side, labelled 'cold tea', with another finished bottle beside it. In the left background is a whare labelled 'Bank of Te Kuiti' and 'You pay rent here - kapai' with another Maori man happily accepting a large bag of money from a European, while in the right background, a procession of Maori men are advancing, followed and supported by European men. Refers to the perception that Maori are overcharging for the rents on their land and 'wasting' land that Pakeha could be converting for farming. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 300 x 430 mm

Date: 1976

From: Ball, Murray 1939-2017: Collection

By: Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017

Reference: J-045-004

Description: Shows Wal deciding to use the old water tank as a kennel for the dog. He rolls it along and down a hill into another paddock under a tree. The dog was asleep in the tank all the time and wakes up barely able to stand for all the rolling of the tank. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Extended Title - 'I could use the old water tank for a kennel for the dog.' Rumble! Rattle! Clank! Ker-donk Bong! Ker-donk! Dank! Dunk-a-dunk! 'Man! That's the last time I'll sleep in one of those things!' Quantity: 1 laser copy. Physical Description: 1 A4 laser copy Processing information: Record updated on 29 June 2023 when the access and use conditions were updated per the agreement with Diogenes Designs Limited for the Murray Ball Estate.

Date: 1987

From: Ball, Murray 1939-2017: Collection

By: Ball, Murray Hone, 1939-2017

Reference: J-045-010

Description: Shows Darlene (Cheeky) Hobson gently telling Rangi that he's too young for her to be romantically interested in him. The Dog thinks to himself that he's old enough and still not interested in her. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Extended Title - 'Look Rangi, dear, I am flattered by all this attention...But I must tell you... you're a little too young for me...' 'C'MON WOMAN, I'VE GOT HAIR ON MY CHEST!' 'I've got hair all over my body mate, and I still don't fancy her.' Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopy Processing information: Record updated on 29 June 2023 when the access and use conditions were updated per the agreement with Diogenes Designs Limited for the Murray Ball Estate.