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Date: 2003

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-

Reference: H-739-001/013

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Quantity: 13 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

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: 2001

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-673-001/023

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues including: Rugby referee laying down the rules to the All Blacks and their competing team. Comment on the Christine Rankin (WINZ) case where various public servants accused her of dressing in a sexually provocative way. Shows Slobadov Milosevic being taken to the guillotine (World Court). He seems unaware of what he's done wrong. Comment on Christine Rankin's credibility in not being re-appointed as CEO of WINZ. Comment on the crisis facing the NZ Post Board and where the blame is being placed by the CEO and the rest of NZ Post. Shows Slobodan Milosevic at the World Court facing War Crimes charges. He does not accept the jurisdiction of the court. Cartoon shows his hands and fore-arms soaked and dripping with blood. Shows male public opinion on the comments by the head of the PM's Dept., Mark Prebble, over not knowing where to look when he caught sight of Christine Rankin's breasts. Show's the two sides of political alliance with Helen Clark by NZ Post Chairman of the Board, Ross Armstrong. Mark Prebble explains how public servants in the Labour administration should model themselves on the Soviet Politburo. He suggest Christine Rankin model herself on Mrs Kruschev who is shown as obese and with only her face and forearms showing. Comment on under-age drinking. Cartoon obituary to New Zealand film maker John O'Shea, 1920-2001. Comment on the deteriorating relationship between enza and fruit growers. Shows members of the public commenting on the Versace fashion exhibition at Te Papa. Shows a Tibetan in the stocks. He congratulates China, his oppressor, being the next Olympic games hosts. Shows consumer confusion over multiple power providers and name changes along with power cuts and expensive power bills leading to illness and possible premature death. Shows Tiger Woods commenting on the $500 fee golf fans are asked to pay to watch him play. Shows whales contemplating their move up the world's hit list. Comment on Michelle Boag's new prominence in the National Party with the ex-Prime Minister Jenny Shipley now in her shadow. Comment on globalisation and free trade protests. Comment on the Governments reaction to huge electricity price hikes. Comment on the poor state of the public Health System. Shows Max Bradford, Minister of Electricity, reporting his success in electricity reforms, only to be shown up by a power cut. Shows two rat scientists discussing how human experiments with genetics led to the rats becoming the dominant species and in turn exterminating humans. A human skeleton is in the foreground. Quantity: 23 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0006800

Description: A 'GOOD EVANS' cartoon. Shows two men in a pub. One of the men is the proprietor and is reading about the hydro lakes being low in the newspaper. He asks a man sitting at the bench with his glass of beer what he is doing to conserve energy and the man replies that he has sold his big car and bought a house closer to the pub. Refers to low rainfall in the South Island meaning that the hydro storage lakes for power generation plants are very low and that therefore there is a danger of power cuts over the winter. The South Island's Waitaki and Clutha power schemes have a combined capacity of more than 2500MW, but their main storage lakes (Tekapo, Pukaki and Hawea) are at about half the level they should be. The little man in the corner comments that 'He's a real Greenie!'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013150

Description: Shows a power pylon that is dressed up as a scarecrow and has had the power cut from its arms. Refers to the proposals for more power pylons to feed the supply in Auckland City. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003

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

Reference: DX-002-256

Description: An Auckland couple on holiday in Fiji write a letter to the editor stating that they are taking measures to reduce power consumption. In the context of an electricity shortage. Extended Title - Go the Blues! Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2006

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009665

Description: Shows Central Otago in white and Central Auckland in black. Refers to the blackout in Central Auckland. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0001785

Description: A caricature of Keith Turner, CEO of meridian Energy. He is shown standing above the city of Auckland. Jagged rays leap from his fingers to the city. Refers to the power cut in central Auckland on Monday 12 June which stopped business for about three hours. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013151

Description: Shows three images relating to events occurred during the week. The first image is of 42 Below founder Geoff Ross next to a bottle of Bacardi. Refers to Bacardi purchasing the New Zealand vodka brand. The second is of George W Bush holding up a large torch which represents Jihadism. Bush's adviser is reading an Intel report which says that he did say that he would 'Lit a fire in the minds of men'. The third relates to the power crisis and shows a figure wearing a suit with a electric plug hole for a head (how farmers see Aucklanders) and a ragged farmer holdinga pitch fork, resembling a plug (how Aucklander see farmers). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024765

Description: Around a dartboard, titled 'MAYhem face the MUSIC Month', are asset sales, spying, Labour-Greens power proposal, Gilmore, Dotcom, GCSB and Banks. May 2013 had been billed as a month for the promotion of New Zealand music. For the National government that month was notable for the crises, mistakes, embarrassments and bad news which had accumulated over the year. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: April 2013

By: Jones, Owen Trevor, active 2013

Reference: MSDL-2048

Description: Electronic document is a short history of the Earth Dam Design Section of the Power Design Office, 1956-1967. This work is part of a larger project on the collected history of the Ministry of Works Power Division (See also MS-Group-1617 and MSDL-2036). Source of title - From item Relationship complexity - Related files to the collected history of the Ministry of Works Power Division are available at MS-Group-1617 and MSDL-2036 Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 2012

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022320

Description: Illustrates six tips to reduce power consumption, but carried to extremes, so that the character illustrated loses his house in the effort to keep warm and is homelss in the last panel, with the advice that he may be eligible for insulation funding now pointless. The Winter of 2012, while wet, was not cold, but rises in power prices occurred. The 'tips' given were valid. However the most useful one of obtaining government support for insulation was left to the last. Having it as first priority would reduce the need to take the other 'tips' to extremes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).