Places

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024027

Description: A man on one side of a fence, which is brown and barren, looks over the fence at his neighbour, who stands among lush green bush. The man questions his compliance with water restrictions. Refers to ongoing drought through Waikato, and low levels of rainfall in New Zealand as a whole, prompting water use restrictions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024197

Description: The Waikato Expressway was expected to be finished in 2013. As the news item notes, the Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, emphasised the road's benefits in cutting travel time and fuel usage. Or, as the characters in the cartoon remark, the road could just enable more transport to travel further. Where would the the fuel and time saving be in that? Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024198

Description: A mother reads to her child a bedside tale of the mythical times when there was rain. The drought of early 2013 by March seemed endless for the agricultural and normally wet Waikato region. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024724

Description: Depicts two drunk men looking bemused. One says 'We shouldnt' have had that "roader" - now we can't even find the pie cart. Next to a telephone pole a sign reads 'Tokoroa pie cart closed for good'. Owners of the Tokoroa pie cart closed it in late April 2013 citing heavy competition from food chains (Stuff 1 May 2013). Title supplied by Library, Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025197

Description: A couple living on a pocket-sized suburban section explain to their neighbour why they bought the immense tractor occupying most of their garden. The New Zealand National Fieldays held in June and which featured a hard sell of daunting agricultural machinery occupied much attention, especially for those living in the Waikato. Many farmers, let alone suburbanites, may have felt subsequent doubts about their purchases made in the heat of the publicity. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025195

Description: At the entrance to the Fieldays at Mystery Creek, a very small person has asked if hobbits 'pay a full price'. The New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays exhibition is held at Mystery Creek near Hamilton every June and attracts large numbers of farming visitors, especially from the Waikato region. 'Hobbiton', the outdoor screen set for Peter Jackson's Tolkein films, is in the Waikato, near Matamata, and is so much of a tourist attraction that many associate the Waikato region with fictional hobbits. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025247

Description: Two fishermen fish from a boat at sea. One says to the other 'It should all work out if they have the bag limit and we catch fish as twice as big'. The caption is an extract from the news 'Possible cut to the snapper bag limit in the Hauraki Gulf'. Concerned about the decline of snapper stocks in the Hauraki Gulf, in June 2013 the Ministry of Primary Industries proposed a reduction in the bag limit of snapper catches. The New Zealand sport Fishing Council considered such a reduction to be unfair to recreational anglers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022867

Description: Under the caption 'Public to be consulted over the old Kopu Bridge - News item', the bridge is shown stretching into the misty future and thinking 'Not knowing is the stressful bit.' The single-lane Kopu Bridge which spans the Waihou River near the Firth of the Thames was in doubt after a new two-lane bridge was built. Being the only swing span bridge in the country, it was eventually saved from being demolished. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023262

Description: Shows a solitary man marooned on a tiny desert island with a letter asking if there might be '4,937 other people marooned on the island.' Refers to a recent news report that 4938 outpatients missed their appointments at Waikato hospital over three months. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0028310

Description: Cartoon shows a man and his dog looking at a news placard that reads that American folk singer Bob Dylan will be launching his Australasian tour at Claudelands Arena, and that other international acts could follow. The man references Dylan's song lyrics and says hopefully the financial "times they are a-changin'". His dog thinks to himself, "or just blowin' in the wind". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).