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Date: 1998

From: Tremain, Garrick :One hundred and six cartoon photocopies published in the Otago Daily Times, 13 February - 24 July 1998.

Reference: H-483-009

Description: Shows a woman at an open doorway, calling back to a person out of sight, as Fred stands outside the doorway holding an extension cord on a spool, with a plug at the end of it. The implication is that he has come to plug his appliance in, because the power in Auckland has been turned off owing to the elctricity crisis there. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed] Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, on sheet 210 x 295 mm.

Date: 1998

From: Scott, Tom, 1947- :Twenty cartoons published in the Evening Post between 2 and 27 February 1998.

Reference: H-448-100

Description: Shows two men talking in the right foreground while a row of men sit in electric chairs in the background. They are apparently members of the Board of Mercury Energy, and will be electrocuted when the Auckland power crisis is over and the power returns. Mercury Energy company's practices were blamed for the long power crisis in Auckland in January/February 1998. Published in the Evening Post on 25 February 1998. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide, 230 x 175 mm.

Date: 1998

From: Crimp, Dary, 1958- :Eighty original cartoons dated from 1995 to 1999.

Reference: A-338-125

Description: The cartoon shows a man dirving his car into central Auckland. He looks shocked as the the scenery changes from light to pitch black. Refers to the power failures in central Auckland at the beginning of 1998. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, A4 size.