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Date: 15 Feb 1998

From: Haast oral history project

By: Hill, Ruth Ida, 1907-2006

Reference: OHInt-0419/08

Description: Ruby Hill was born at Okuru in 1907. Describes how her father came from Germany to Australia and then the West Coast and worked on roadworks round the district. Describes the death of one brother during World War I and another from drowning. Recalls Christmas, Sundays, children's games, discipline, entertainment, music, fishing, schooling, visiting neighbours and horse riding. Mentions having to ferry people across the river to their place and riding to Jacksons Bay. Recalls Arawata Bill. Gives details of food preparation and her mother's hard work. Comments on the isolation. Describes how it took eight days to drive the cattle to market at Whataroa. Recalls getting all her teeth pulled out by the dentist when she was about ten. Describes how her mother had one of her children half way between Waiatoto and Okuru on the side of the track. Talks about her mother's death from appendicitis and the doctor's attempt to perform surgery on her at home. Recalls how she and her sister Grace left home to go to work. Discusses how they felt about leaving the district, her work at Seaview Hospital, Hokitika and working in a number of hotels. Describes meeting her husband and moving to Sutters Creek near Ngahere where her husband cut silver pine for the mining industry. Describes stores and the hall in the Haast district, sports days and the dance afterwards. Talks about her brothers Charlie and Dick Eggeling. Mentions Dick Eggeling was the postmaster for a time and Charlie and Betty Eggeling started the motor camp. Comments on Okuru as a place to grow up. Recalls the Cuttance Family. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2902.

Date: 26 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Murphy, Francis Richard, 1948-; Murphy, Bronwyn Gay, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0569/06

Description: Frank Murphy was born in Palmerston, Otago in 1948. Describes his father's work on Bluecliffs Station and his mother's as station cook. Talks about the Bluecliffs area, the ownership of Bluecliffs Station by the Rhodes Estate and its management by Dr Woodhouse. Explains father's work on the farm and going away to boarding school. Discusses his relationship with his parents, attitudes to table manners, discipline, alcohol and smoking. Describes riding a horse to school, mustering on the station and his interest in rugby, cricket and race meetings. Lists a variety of jobs before going to work at Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Mentions getting used to office work and doing extra mural study at Otago University. Explains reasons for not completing study, for leaving his job and the receivership of Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Backgrounds a venture in woolscouring. Bronwyn Murphy was born in Mosgiel in 1948. Mentions the Bisset family farm was at Momona and part of it is where the Dunedin airport is now located. Describes the fanily home, helping with cooking and chores, the childhood family routine and going to Sunday School. Comments on enjoying the open spaces as a child. Describes her schooling followed by working in a lawyer's office. Explains how she met Frank, dates, their decision to marry and their wedding day in 1970. Describes living in Dunedin and on the Taieri before buying the Beaumont Hotel in 1982. Refers to its run down appearance, its physical layout, guest accommodation, clientele, hours of work, the area covered by the hotel, the financial help of the previous owners and their first winter there. Describes customers including forestry workers. Refers to farming and orchards. Describes the Beaumont community and local characters. Talks about music at the hotel. Discusses the attitude ot the locals to outsiders. Details their aims and goals when they first took over the hotel and the introduction of food for casual diners to minimise the effect of alcohol for motorists. Lists important local events including the Beaumont races, the Paradise Fishing Club competition, other activities on the river, and a pig hunting competition. Refers to the decline of the Beaumont Races in the context of drink driving. Explains the shift of the race to Wingatui and its impact. Describes the closure of the community hall, church and school. Mentions fund raising and Bob Woods. Describes the dam project public meeting at Beaumont in 1989 and the destructive effect on the community. Explains his belief that ECNZ has been deliberately vague about the proposal. Discusses the second public meeting in 1991. Talks about the treatment of people selling to ECNZ, their absence from the hotel and a lack of farewells. Describes concerns about the environmental impact. Summarises the impact on the locals particularly in terms of uncertainty. Refers to ECNZ personnel and how they should have operated. Discusses interest groups Friends of Beaumont (FOB) and Residents of Beaumont (ROB). Discusses the national campaign run by musician Graeme Collins and local attitudes to him. Explains their decision to sell the hotel in the context of the break up of the community and the decline in the hotel's turnover. Describes reluctance to sell to ECNZ and breaking the news to the local community. Describes their farewell, its emotional impact and new lessees Ray and Margaret Pankhurst. Describes the circumstances which led to them leasing the Fairfield Hotel. Talks about retaining links with the Beaumont community, continuing uncertainty in Beaumont and the stress suffered by locals. Explains their hopes for future of Beaumont. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2630. Photo of Frank Murphy as a child; phot of Bronym Bisset in 1959; photo of Frank and Bronwyn Murphy in 1995

Date: 21 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Rishworth, Margaret Joyce, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0569/08

Description: Joyce Rishworth was born in Seacliff in 1921. Describes family and growing up in the area until the age of fifteen. Mentions father was a psychiatric nurse. Mentions the closure of Seacliff Hospital. Describes attending Seacliff Primary School, going by train daily to high school in Dunedin and attending Browns Commercial College. Describes meeting Harold Rishworth and becoming engaged before he went to war. Talks about his capture at El Alamein and his being a prisoner of war. Describes nursing training, but not sitting final exams, and nursing returned soldiers. Describes frequent church attendance. Talks about Harold Rishworth's appearance, rehabilitation and their marriage when he returned from war. Mentions his work at a fellmongery, the birth of their daughter and their move to Milton where they worked on a sheep farm. Describes applying for rehabilitation farms and a move to Lawrence. Discusses the rabbit problem, skinning and selling rabbits and improving land covered in gorse and manuka. Mentions the birth of other children and the difficulty of travelling on poor roads from Tuapeka West to the Lawrence maternity home. Discusses what her children are doing now. Describes having no telephone or electricity until the 1950s, initially no water, cooking on a wood stove and a mail delivery every three days. Discusses isolation as a result of snow and being unable to get home from Dunedin for a week. Mentions flooding and the influence of the Clutha River on farming. Describes increasing the farm size. Talks about recreational use of the river and the role of the punt as a tourist attraction. Details puntmen. Discusses the role of the church in her life. Recalls her husband's death in 1975. Describes membership of Associated Presbyterian Women (APW), Red Cross and Country Women's Institute(CWI). Notes Tuapeka West is also known as Kononi. Discusses involvement with the Clutha Valley High School. Notes the closure of the Tuapeka West School in 1991 and other services which have closed. Mentions the Greenfield pub and local events including the Shearers Jamboree, the punt dance and Tuapeka Mouth cattle sales. Describes disappointment on hearing about the dam and the potential loss of part of their property but comments philosophically on the need for electricity. Discusses being consulted by ECNZ and meetings at Tuapeka Mouth. Talks about sadness at the planned flooding of Beaumont and notes that her daughter and son in Beaumont have sold their orchard to ECNZ. Comments on the uncertainty created by the dam issue. Describes how her home is a base for the family and the dam has an impact on the whole family. Comments on the activities of Friends of Beaumont (FOB) who tried to disrupt punt celebrations. Interviewer(s) - Jerome Cvitanovich Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA 2632. Photo of Joyce and Harold Rishworth; Joyce Rishworth and others; Joyce Rishworth and son

Date: 16 Mar 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: McDonald, Avis, active 1998; Horrell, Albert Edwin John, 1917-2001

Reference: OHInt-0428/12

Description: Bert Horrell was born in Gore in 1917. Describes how his grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in the 1880s. Talks about their farm across the Mataura River and the difficulty of crossing it to get to school. Mentions how his father, as a child, had learned how to cross the river with a horse and dray full of school children. Talks about his father buying a farm at Mandeville. Describes going to Mandeville school, conditions, teachers Alan Prentice and Miss Barclay and sitting Proficiency. Recalls that his mother was a member of the Hargest family which settled at Mandeville. Mentions John and Jim Hargest. Notes that there was no money in farming at the time and his parents operated the Mandeville store for a period. Talks about the farm house they built. Mentions that his father was religious. Recalls the vicar Hoani Parata. Talks about his father's religious convictions, Sunday School in the Mandeville Hall, Presbyterian strictness and the no dancing rule. Mentions the importance of the railway and the work of the gangers. Talks about the Mandeville Hotel. Recalls travelling by train in segregated carriages to Gore High School for two years before working on the family farm. Describes milking cows and the separator used to separate the milk from the cream. Mentions the use of lime on paddocks to increase productivity at the end of the Depression and experimenting with grass seeds. Recalls going in to military camp after the Battle of Britain and the entry of the Japanese into the war. Talks about the history of the area written by Herries Beattie. Mentions a Maori raid at Tuturau, George Meredith Bell, gold seekers, the Croydon run, the Wantwood homestead and run, Peter McLeod and the flour mill built by Mr Doull. Describes what happened to the mill. Recalls the music at dances, balls, bachelor balls and wartime farewell functions and traditions such as reserving dances, the last dance, taking your partner home and romance. Describes the alcohol consumed in cars at these events, corrugated gravel roads, curtains on cars because it was cold and the difficulty of crank starting cars. Mentions going to the pictures in Gore. Describes duck shooting with the Colett family of Invercargill. Interviewer(s) - Avis McDonald Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2604.

Date: 20 Oct 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Smith, Kevin David, 1953-

Reference: OHInt-0425/8

Description: Kevin Smith was born in Taumarunui in 1953. Describes going to Owhango Primary School and Taumarunui High School. Mentions his father, Bluey Smith, worked as a bushman and bush boss for Dominion Timber Company from the 1920s to the 1950s. Recalls exploring the forest as a child, working there with his father and deer hunting as a teenager. Talks about his early interest in conservation as the result of a road being built through Ohinetonga Reserve. Describes studying botany and then forestry at university, beginning his PhD on the West Coast and deciding to campaign to protect the native forest instead of finishing his thesis. Describes living in Harihari for fourteen years and working for Native Forests Action Council with Gerry McSweeney and Guy Salmon. Discusses damage to the Tongariro Forest. Mentions goats, other pests and the creation of poor farmland by the Department of Lands and Survey in the southern part of the forest. Comments on the use of red beech for fence posts. Describes writing an ecological report for Forest and Bird. Talks about community support for saving the Tongariro Forest and involvement from the Outdoor Pursuits Centre and Mangatepopo School. Comments on unique forest communities and mentions Waimarino Plateau. Explains the difference in attitude between communities in south Westland and Owhango in terms of their local forests. Discusses the start of the Tokaanu Power Scheme and the destruction of the headwaters of the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers. Mentions damage to the blue duck and the wider ecosystem. Discusses mountain biking and the need for wider recreational use in the Forest. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2962. Black and white colour photo of Kevin Smith Search dates: 1998

Date: 8 Oct 1998 - 08 Oct 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Green, Paul Montague, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0425/5

Description: Paul Green was born in Wellington in 1944. Describes education at Te Aro Primary School and Wellington College. Talks about his love of tramping and climbing and climbing in New Zealand and South America. Recalls his first day as a ranger at Ohakune. Describes working for Lands and Survey and becoming senior ranger at Whakapapa. Discusses the turning of wetlands into farmland by the Department of Lands and Survey. Comments on the beginning of involvement in managing Tongariro Forest in 1987 when boundaries were drawn. Recalls the political pressure to have the Department of Conservation (DOC) established in 1987 and the political goals in creating the Department. Talks about controlling pinus contorta and goats. Describes the land administered by DOC from Whakapapa and later from Turangi as the Tongariro Taupo Conservancy. Gives a history of Whakapapa Village. Comments on the importance of pest control, possum control by 1080 poison and trapping and efforts to increase the presence of the brown kiwi in the Tongariro Forest. Gives a history of huts in the Forest and discusses the need to balance the conflict between conservation and tourism. Discusses the cessation of trips to the Ruapehu crater lake. Mentions local iwi. Recalls the beginnings of the Outdoor Pursuit Centre and its growth. Describes involvement with Search and Rescue. Discusses the development of a Conservation Management Strategy and a Treaty of Waitangi claim against it by Ngati Tuwharetoa. Explains DOC involvement in efforts to reduce the amount of water ECNZ diverted from the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers. Describes recreation and conservation issues in the campaign. Comments on the relationship between DOC and ECNZ. Comments on changes in the Forest in two decades and mentions highlights including the release of kiwi in the Forest and going through the Mangatepopo Gorge. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-2959. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Colour photo of Paul Green

Date: 10 Sep 1998

From: Tongariro Forest oral history project

By: Chapple, Keith Robert, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0425/1

Description: Keith Chapple was born in London in 1943. Describes how his parents were killed during World War II and he grew up in Surrey. Mentions his university qualification in political science and philosophy, involvement in the anti-nuclear campaign and CND, moving to New Zealand in 1967 and various jobs. Recalls moving from Auckland to Kakahi and his first involvement in New Zealand in a conservation battle with a group, Friends of the River of Kakahi Society (FORKS) in 1981. Describes the community of Kakahi when it had several timber mills. Comments on milling in the Tongariro Forest when he arrived in the area. Describes a visit by Gerry McSweeney and Kevin Smith from Forest and Bird surveying the forest and a public meeting in 1983 planning the campaign to save the Tongariro Forest. Mentions widespread and diverse support from deer hunters, fishermen, walker and water supply advocates and the formation of the Tongariro Forest Park Promotion Committee with its aim of forming a forest park. Mentions the promotion of recreational activities and use of the Forest by the Outdoor Pursuit(s) Centre Discusses the moratorium placed on logging in 1983 and the role of Jim Bolger. Comments on the reaction of Lands and Survey and the Forest Service. Recalls Koro Wetere signing an application to log 600 hectares in the Ketetahi Block. Describes how this sparked a snap debate in Parliament and Prime Minister David Lange asked Mr Wetere to overturn the decision. Comments that the park is still not gazetted as a Forest Park. Mentions disappointment in DOC. Discusses the ecological diversity of the Tongariro Forest, the decline of the kiwi and the strategy for the Save the Kiwi campaign. Describes becoming President of Forest and Bird and his paid work which pays for his environmental work. Comments on his use of conflict resolution. Mentions the Kaimanawa horse issue. Comments on the government of Jenny Shipley, beech logging, Tony Ryall and the intention to sell Timberlands. Discusses the battle to have more water released into the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers and diverse groups involved in the Whanganui River Flows Campaign. Mentions Federated Farmers, Rotary, Wanganui Chamber of Commerce, Fish and Game, the Maruia Society and recreationalists. Comments on the differing approach by Maori. Describes the case against Electricorp, the Electricorp loss, their taking of the case to the Planning Tribunal and the High Court where it failed. Mentions that Electricorp CEO Rod Deane wanted to take the case to the Privy Council. Comments on the stress caused by the case. Explains his motivation in being a conservationist. Discusses environmental activism and the information and communication explosion in the 1980s and 1990s. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-2955. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Colour photograph of Keith Chapple

Date: 16-17 Dec 1995 - 27-28 Jan 1996 - 16 Dec 1995 - 28 Jan 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Buchanan, Henry John, 1917-1997

Reference: OHInt-0419/03

Description: Henry Buchanan was born in Runanga in 1917. Recalls living in Ikamatua where his father trammed for the sawmiller A R Wallis. Mentions their shift to the Turnbull River in 1930 where his father cut timber for Mr Wallis, had a farm and built a sawmill at Okuru. Describes working for his family on a gold claim on the north Haast beach, growing vegetables, having dairy cows and making butter. Recalls other food eaten including wood pigeon, ducks and some beef. Recalls rowing from Big Bay for a dance and riding by horse to Haast and Jackson's Bay. Mentions fording rivers and going by the tide. Talks about mail brought in by pack horse and a launch between Jackson's Bay and Okuru. Comments on the beginning of the aeroplane service and being able to get emergency service when needed. Notes that previously when people were sick it had taken three or four days to get them to Paringa by stretcher. Mentions accidents in the area. Comments on Dr Jean McLean flying down from Hokitika each fortnight. Describes post offices at Okuru, run by the Eggeling family, at Upper Okuru, by the Nolan family, at Haast, by the Cron family and at Huhuka by the Harris family. Mentions Betty Eggeling was the first woman to drive through Haast Pass. Talks about marrying Mina McCrae at Greymouth and their honeymoon in Nelson. Describes life with radio and no television. Describes beginning a fishing venture about 1950, buying a freezer, starting whitebaiting and a `whitebait war' with the Nolans. Describes operating boats and an aeroplane while whitebaiting and crayfishing. Discusses fights about air space with Myrtle Cron, the airways agent at Haast. Mentions that Ivy Cron operated the ferry across the Haast. Notes that West Coast Airways began operating about 1930 and discusses weather problems and flying. Recalls deer stalking full time from 1955 to 1960, a venison factory built in Greymouth in the 1970s and a mussel farming venture in Marlborough. Discusses other work he has done including on the Haast aerodrome, goldmining, scrubcutting for W D Nolan in Cascade, droving cattle out to Whataroa, working on the road from Makarora and from Waiatoto to Okuru and being manpowered into the sawmill at Ikamatua. Notes that the Government gave subsidies for gold mining during the Depression. Talks about the Cowl and Harris families and mentions his mother remarried Joe Harris. Mentions camps at Jacksons Bay, Okuru and Haast and roadmen Joe Driscoll and Jack Farrell. Talks about brothers and sisters Ted, Bill and Myra Buchanan. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2897.

Date: 25 Apr 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Cowan, Bernard Homersham, 1921-2003

Reference: OHInt-0419/04

Description: Bernard Cowan was born in Christchurch in 1921. Gives details of his family background. Mentions his mother met his father in Christchurch and went to live at Okuru. Mentions their farm was between Waiatoto and Arawata. Discusses their income from cattle and home made butter. Describes how his brother died when he was seven and his father was killed in 1935 when Bernie was fourteen. Describes attending school at the Nolan's household school. Talks about the other children and teachers. Recalls being carried out on a stretcher on the Haast-Paringa cattle track with appendicitis when he was twelve. Mentions his grandmother went with him. Recalls a difficult trip back from Hokitika, where he had been visiting his mother in hospital, in the boat `Elsie' as a nine year old. Recalls no hot or cold water during the Depression, eating wood pigeons and fish and having difficulty paying bills. Mentions his sister was educated at Hokitika and was training to be a nurse until the death of his father. Describes meeting and marrying Myra Roberts and getting a job with the Public Works Department (PWD). Recalls working at the aerodrome at Mussel Point and on road building. Comments on how the air service saved people's lives. Describes selling deer skins while working for the PWD. Describes selling the farm in 1947, buying a truck to cart gravel and having five trucks working at one time. Describes whitebaiting and selling the whitebait and a crayfishing venture with his son John. Discusses crossing rivers. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2898.

Date: 6 Apr-23 May 2000

By: Charteris, David, active 2000

Reference: OHColl-0490

Description: Records the stories of those who had associations with the riverboats of the Whanganui River during the first half of the twentieth century. Interviewees are May Hodder, Joan Rogers, David Emmett, Kathryn Swan, Mrs Flower and Pam Kitson, Graham Cathro, Fred Cleverly, Jim Tasker and Polly Teki. Interviewer(s) - David Charteris Quantity: 9 C90 cassette(s). 9 printed abstract(s). 9 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 30 Aug 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/323

Description: Reminiscences of a childhood playing in a stream running through her farm on its way to join the Motueka River. Explains how in the winter, the stream could rapidly become almost unrecognizable - more like the real Orinoco in colour, though not in volume. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 95 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0331 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 13 Minutes Duration.

Date: 2005

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000122

Description: Photographs of people whitebaiting at the mouth of the Otaki River, taken 2005 by Dylan Owen. Arrangement: Photographs were originally in an electronic folder titled 'Whitebaiting Otaki River 2005' Quantity: 11 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0001679

Description: An angler stands in the Tongariro River fishing. A large trout that he has just hooked warns him that Genesis Energy has just released the control gate. Behind the angler is a great wave of water. Refers to the fact that Genesis Energy has to release water on occasion to control the water flow. Some anglers have been caught in the surge. Genesis is responsible for managing the river's water flow as part of its resource consent for the Tongariro power scheme. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0002142

Description: A man stands in front of Fonterra's Longburn Plant from which effluant disgorges into the Manawatu river running alongside. He advises people who want to drink or bathe to use milk. Refers to the decision made by the Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council that Fonterra can discharge 8,500 cubic metres of waste water per day into the river from its Longburn dairy factory. Environmentalist groups are appealing against the decision. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0003519

Description: The Mayor of Christchurch, Garry Moore, stands at the forefront of the cartoon explaining that giving the sailors of new ships the freedom of the city is a hallowed marine tradition. Behind him is the HMNZ Canterbury moored in the Avon River; a punter looks indignantly at his wrecked punt. All around Garry moore are scenes of wild gaiety which include a duck spitted on a sword and sailors' hats being tossed in the air along with beercans. Sailors from the navy's newest ship will be given the freedom of the city during a rare charter parade through the streets of Christchurch later in the month. With swords drawn, bayonets fixed, drums beating, bands playing and colours flying, the ship's company of the navy's brand new multi-role ship, HMNZS Canterbury, will march through the streets before they are presented with the freedom of the city. Item from Yahoo Xtra news. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014863

Description: The cartoon shows Minister for the Environment Nick Smith wearing bullet belts over both shoulders, and telling a woman representing 'Hurunui' and who is behind bars, that he has great news, that he is going to wait for 15 months before hanging drawing and quartering her. Refers to the news that Irrigation NZ (INZ) has welcomed the moratorium placed on new major irrigation consents on Canterbury's Hurunui River yesterday, saying it was common sense where no proper water plan exists. Environment Canterbury commissioners requested the moratorium from Environment Minister Nick Smith and he approved it on new water takes from the river and its tributaries from Friday until October 1 next year. Dame Margaret Bazley said the Hurunui catchment did not meet criteria in the Environment Canterbury Act, it faced increasing demand, was nearing full allocation and in lower reaches suffered diminished water quality. (Information source NBR) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 6 February 2005

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000119

Description: Photographs of people swimming in the Hutt River, Wellington, on Waitangi Day, taken 6 February 2005 by Dylan Owen. Arrangement: Photographs were originally in an electronic folder titled 'Hutt River' Quantity: 20 digital image(s).

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005972

Description: Shows the South Island about to sneeze on the North Island. North Island tells South Island that they don't want them to give them rocksnot. Refers to the invasive algae Didymo or Rocksnot found in South Island rivers. Also refers to the biosecurity efforts to prevent the algae spreading to North Island rivers. Published in The Press Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 2013

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024127

Description: Shows Mighty River with a shark swimming and smiling just below the surface. Refers to the dismissal of the Maori Council's appeal against the partial privatisation of Mighty River Power, and the government's plan to sell up to 49% of the state-owned company. On the same day as the Supreme Court ruling, television and short film director, Adam Strange, was killed in a shark attack while swimming at Muriwai. (New Zealand Herald, 27 Feb 2013) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0025424

Description: Shows Minister of Finance, Bill English, and Prime Minister John Key in a small boat labelled 'asset sales programme', heading towards a waterfall, with a warning sign labelled 'Caution! Mighty River Falls'. Refers to the government's asset sales programme, which includes Mighty River Power, whose share price had been falling since it was floated in May. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).