Places

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0007276

Description: Shows a group of men in a meeting to discuss the possibility of a commuter rail service between Waikato and Auckland. On the screen in front of them is an image of a monorail running across the tops of several giant pylons. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012881

Description: The cartoon shows a train running backwards downhill from Auckland to Hamilton. Text reads 'Estimated cost escalation' and words on the train read 'Planned commuter service'. The driver says 'We could be going backwards'. Refers to the derailing of plans to trial a commuter train service between Hamilton and Auckland after the estimated cost escalated to more than $1 million annually for three years. The Hamilton City Council's transport committee yesterday admitted defeat over plans to trial the commuter service after the latest KiwiRail proposal revealed the cost would be more than double the $450,000 figure it earlier indicated. The council was left as the main funder of the service after the NZ Transport Agency and Environment Waikato refused to chip in. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0001740

Description: A couple are loading their car in preparation for trip to Auckland. When the man suggests that they share the driving because it is a demanding trip, his wife agrees and says she will drive from Ohinewai to Rangiriri. Refers to a new piece of roading in the Waikato that is about 10 kilometres in length. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0003548

Description: A man from the Electricity Commission stands in countryside between Auckland and Waikato. The man presses a button that makes the traffic lights beside him show green for, 'go' and shouts, 'surprise'! Refers to the decision by the Electricity Commission that grants the right to Transpower to build pylons for its controversial transmission line through farmland between Waikato and Auckland in the face of much criticism, mainly because of the height of some of the pylons. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007-2009

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000358

Description: Photographs of North Island street scenes, 2007-2009 Quantity: 46 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013848

Description: A man stares at a huge hoarding that reads 'Does the Waikato need a super city?' His wife tells a friends that she thinks they should steal a march on Auckland and form a 'super duper city'. Refers to the opinion that Auckland's "super city" plan should be extended to the Waikato with one council formed in time for next year's local body elections in October, according to a high-powered Waikato lobby group. The group, led by former Hamilton mayor Margaret Evans, unveiled the proposal in Auckland today to the select committee hearing submissions on the Government plan to amalgamate Auckland's councils. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: July 2011-July 2012

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000777

Description: Comprises street scenes showing main streets, traffic, shops, businesses, historic buildings and local people in small towns and suburbs of Wellington, Manawatu-Whanganui, Wairarapa, Waikato and Auckland Regions taken between July 2011 and July 2012 by Dylan Owen. Includes views of Riddiford Street, Newtown, Beramphore shops on Adelaide Road, Boulcott Street traffic, Turkish, Taiwanese and Asian restaurants on Courtenay Place, Cuba Street, pedestrians on Lambton Quay, Manners Street, Marion Street, Molesworth Street (shows Wellington Cathedral of St Paul or new St Pauls church), pedestrian crossing and shops on The Parade, Island Bay (including Howard & Tilyard butchery building), people walking along the Terrace, traffic cones and cars parked outside the National Library building on Thorndon Quay, cyclists peloton passing converted warehouses on Thordon Quay, shops on Tinakori Road, buildings on lower Tory Street, buildings on Upper Cuba Street and QBA apartments behind. Includes views taken on Broadway Avenue (shows Commerce Buildings and various shops), Main Street, Maire Street, Rangitikei Street, vehicle testing station on Taonui Street, Palmerston North, a cyclist on Broadway, Marton, the Town Hall and shops on Bruce Street, Hunterville, Main Street, Foxton (shows Foxton Racing Club and Manawatu Print Ltd, shops on Oxford Street and Queen Street, Levin. Includes views of shops along High Street, Lower Hutt (Balcherrie Chambers housing Vic Cycles), Queens Drive and Margaret Street intersection, Lower Hutt, shops, cafes, buses and new apartments on Jackson Street and Kensington Avenue, Petone. Includes views of High Street, North Carterton (shows Mansfield's Building 1919) and Main Street, North Carterton. Includes views taken of pedestrian and cyclist on Parnell Road, Parnell, National Library building on Stanley Street, State Highway 3 as it passes through Onehunga, Auckland, shops on Queen Street, Waiuku. Includes views taken on Rosebery street, Tokoroa, (shows pou carving of Waikato rugby player with ball), view of goods outside dairy on Main Street, Huntly, and youths walking by Regent Theatre on Tuhoro Street, Otorohanga. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "AAA Street views July 2011 to July 2012" Quantity: 63 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0027282

Description: Cartoon shows two boys sitting at the edge of the Waikato River, fishing. The river is almost entirely dried up. One of the boys explains that "Auckland needed more water..." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).