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Date: 1966

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Webb, Norman David, 1913-2005

Reference: B-129-011

Description: Shows Madam Kilowatt, a fortune teller with a light bulb on her table in place of a silver ball. She, labelled "The Planners" is advising her client on the power forecast, with her cat "Blackout" beside her. Illustrates the difficulty of predicting power needs. The campaign to save Lake Manapouri from being flooded for the dam, was under way in the early 1960s, bnut did not finally succeed. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick / N.Z. Herald / 15.7.66.; Recto - top left - News: "Manapouri Dam not now needed"/"Power plans cost cut by [pounds] 135 M". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and watercolour on paper 393 x 472 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1982

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-964/986

Description: Includes cartoons about: Rodent bounties; glow-worms in Waitomo Caves; the use of monkeys in finding cures for diseases; the cats who live in Parliament refuse to leave; recycling stray dog meat as pet food; octopuses duck as ship passes over them; ducks decide to migrate in duckshooting season; Eric Heath's cat Clyde; rabbit advisory officers to visit farms; Animal Week; pets blessed in a church service; The Great Hairy Moehau Expedition; smuggling snakes; ban on taking toheroas; live snake sent through the mail; black rabbits sent away; Lake Taupo inhabited by aquatic dinosaurs; four pukeko at large in Wellington; luring the laughing owl attracts moas; gin traps; ballooning spiders drift from Australia; Clyde reacts to vivisection; cat given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Quantity: 23 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1997

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

Reference: H-448-022/044

Description: The Fire Service reduce their services to the public as a consequence of being restructured. North Health argue their case for not giving Rau Williams life-saving kidney dialysis treatment. Jim Bolger holds onto the National Party leadership against growing calls for renewal of the Party, starting at the top. Labour enjoys record lead in the polls. Bill English, Minister of Health, despairs over the state of the public health system. Winston Peters is increasingly alarmed by Neil Kirton's unexpected statements. The splitting of ECNZ into two competing groups has resulted in higher power prices. The TVNZ Board discuss a strategy to get the public behind selling off TVNZ. Public discussion over the death of Rau Williams who had kidney dialysis treatment withheld from him. Winston Peters and Jim Bolger disagree over the question of more frigates in the NZ fleet. Tuku Morgan argues against the TVNZ sell-off. Obituary to Rau Williams and Jim Bolger's 'kinder and gentler society'. Jim Bolger attempts to deal with Jenny Shipley's leadership bid. Comment on the current justice system where violent offenders are let free on bail and their elderly victims lock themselves up alone in their homes. Jim Anderton's Alliance Party deals with demands from the Green Party. Jim Bolger heads for Chogm as his National Government plunges to record unpopularity. Wide-spread health cuts are introduced to the public health sector. Comment on the apparent collusion between defence attorneys and their gang clients. Jim Bolger seems pleased to be on a first-name basis with many of the world's leaders. Panic spreads as stockmarkets tumble everywhere. Shows the inter-dependant relationship between the American Wall St. stock market and the New Zealand stock market. Minister of Health, Bill English doesn't comprehend the seriousness of doctors' dissatisfaction with their conditions. 'This is your life' TV programme returns. Quantity: 23 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides. Processing information: Subject headings updated in 2022 as part of inclusive metadata work.

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-675-016/033

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Comment on New Zealands cancer treatment compared to Australia. Verbal sparring between Helen Clark and Bill English. Helen Clark looking forward to Bill English being plastered in the boxing ring and he referring to her art fraud incident. Comment on rural doctor shortage. Rural famlies resort to taking their children to the local vet. Shows Labour Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, fishing (electioneering) with a tin of fat worms (budget). Shows small boy asking his father to borrow his gun for the nativity scene at school. Cartoonist Tom Scott receives a Doctorate from Massey University. The agitated voice of Rob Muldoon comes from the sky. Shows National Party President, Michael Boag in a box. Bill English asks National Party Divisional Conference delegates to form an orderly queue to try the magic trick of cutting her in half. Comment on Jeff Wilson's retirement from international rugby. Shows Helen Clark and Peter Davis in trenchcoats, hats and sun glasses with an umbrella. Passersby wonder if she's worried about the hole in the ozone layer or the holes in the Kyoto Protocol. Comment on the perceived waste of money within the Maori Television Service. Shows Helen Clark having cut free the Employments Contract Act now has a large cat (wildcat strikes) on her back. Comment on teachers anger and frustration with Labour's Education Minister, Trevor Mallard's dealings throughout the teacher contract negotiations. Shows Helen Clark and her husband Peter Davis in the kitchen, Peter is preparing a picnic as he heard Helen say that once Michael Cullen had presented his budget they would go to the country - i.e. set the date for the election. Comment on so-called 'Maori bashing' of Derek Fox for his handling of the Maori Television Service engagement of Cheif Executive, John Davy. Shows a shearing shed scene. Comment on the popularity of Jim Anderton in the Wigram Seat, one shearer suggests the voters are like sheep in their blind acceptance of him. Shows two older people opening their front door to Bill English who is dressed up as a police officer in boxing gloves carrying his drawn truncheon (law and order). Comment on the clash of traditional Indian past-times of snake charming and lying on beds of nails to intensify the practitioners mental state, with the new order of nuclear weapons. Shows three tables in a restaurant and how they are divided to accommodate smokers, non-smokers and passive-smokers. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size horizontal photocopies

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-677-001/025

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Shows father and son watching a World Cup Soccer game. The boy comments that he's going to play soccer when he grows up as it gives him all day to do something else. Comment on the nature of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. Shows Sharon and Arafat as two dogs. Sharon is huge and dangerous and Arafat is small and timid. George W Bush points out Arafat as being the dangerous dog and the other needing to be put on a lead for his own protection. Comparing the Black Caps cricket performance with the teachers strike. The Beehive is bombarded by a swarm of Painted Apple Moth demanding an apology from Helen Clark. Refers to all the apologies Clark has given recently. Nandor Tanczos argues that using cannabis has never done him any harm. Helen Clark defends her position on giving special treatment to Maori. Walking frames are unloaded ready for a political address by Winston Peters. Helen Clark prays to God to look after the country while she campaigns. She reassures God she'll pick the job up again on the 28th of July (the day after the election). Jim Anderton receives a gold Mickey Mouse watch from his former Alliance Party colleagues. A New Zealand couple receive a written apology from Helen Clark for the things she will do once back in power. Helen Clark and Bill English get breifed about not hitting below the belt. Helen Clark's belt (popularity) goes all the way up to her arm-pits and Bill English's belt only comes up to her knees. A storm cloud (resurgent unionism) rains over a school. The forecast is for continuing stormy weather for the next three years. Helen Clark stands on a chair screaming as 4 large rats (Rising Dollar, Falling Commodity Prices, Popularity Decline, Rising Interest Rates) approach her. A child comments on the 2002 snap election. Helen Clark does the Dance of the Seven Veils with possible election dates. The audience call for her to give them a date. A man is about to take a pill (rural GP subsidy) but it is too little to help with his condition, a giant knife (rural dissolution policies) through his body. Shows Winston Peters using immigration to brew up trouble as a way of getting back into power. Comment on the number of apologies the Prime Minister has been making. Comment on the likelihood of the Teacher Settlement Package being ratified. Shows Helen Clark ticking off the list of apologies she's planning to make. Comment on the possibility of a mad-cow disease outbreak in New Zealand. Shows Helen Clark holding firm on not letting anything out in regards to the possible election date. Shows Air New Zealand's new no-frills airline, the plane has no seats. Quantity: 25 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-666-001/014

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 14 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017715

Description: Text reads 'News - the beloved cat of Tesco's Tauranga plant vanished after stowing away in a container'. Several male workers are beside themselves with grief because of the loss of their cat. The supervisor makes a phone-cal saying 'Quick, find that cat so we can get some work done here!' Context - A Te Puka cat a trip to Australia in a shipping container for 13 days. Douglas the cat has now returned safely to his owners at Tesco drilling company. (TVNZ 18 April 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0003385

Description: Two cats express their annoyance at being denied their natural habitat when alleyways are closed. Refers to Local community workers calling for the shut down of alleyways in the Hamilton suburb of Melville. They claim the alleys are escape routes for criminals, are a tagger's paradise and are a haven for drugtakers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

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

Reference: DX-022-193

Description: A large black cat wearing an Australian cork hat holds a mouse, which is dressed in the New Zealand Cricket Team's uniform, in its mouth. Refers to the February 2005 series of four one day test matches between Australia and New Zealand, which Australia conclusively won. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0001954

Description: Shows a stoat, a rat and a cat with a pen and a petition sheet. They are petitioning to have funding cut to the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary on the grounds that it is unfair to predators. Refers to the failure of the Sanctuary to win a bid for funding for the building of a visitor and education centre. Local MP, Marion Hobbs, was angry and disappointed about the failure. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012066

Description: Shows the head of a large cat that is accompanied by a rhyme that says that although he welcomes the eradication of dogs if the ICC's policy ever extends to cats he will have a distinct advantage because he has nine lives. Refers to the news that the Invercargill City Council killed six harmless rottweiler puppies recently because of their breed, while the dog's aggressive mother was returned to its owners for a fee. The SPCA is appalled by the policy of the ICC. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023948

Description: Shows a wall of mounted deer head trophies including a domestic cat head trophy. Refers to Gareth Morgan's campaign to eradicate domestic cats. Title supplied by library Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023936

Description: Shows Gareth Morgan with a rifle and ordnance belt surrounded by birds and rats. Refers to Morgan's campaign to rid New Zealand of domestic cats. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023849

Description: Shows Gareth Morgan peering over a fence with a rifle, trying to lure cats to him. Morgan, a New Zealand businessman and economist, launched a controversial campaign in early 2013 to eradicate domestic cats from New Zealand due to their capacity to kill native birds and other wildlife. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023850

Description: Shows Gareth Morgan holding a sign saying, 'Cats kill our native birds' and Garth McVicar holding a sign saying, 'And it will get worse if we allow gay cats to marry.' Refers to Gareth Morgan, a New Zealand businessman and economist, launched a controversial campaign in early 2013 to eradicate domestic cats from New Zealand due to their capacity to kill native birds and other wildlife, which many view as overly extreme. Sensible Sentencing Trust leader Garth McVicar has submitted to Parliament that allowing same-sex marriage in New Zealand will lead will lead to an increase in crime. McVicar's comments have been dismissed as 'rubbish'. (Stuff.co.nz, 20 January 2013) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0023905

Description: Shows Gareth Morgan wearing a yellow Wellington Phoenix jersey, with a group of fat cats in front of him, labelled insurance companies, property investors, bankers, financial advisors, big oil, and money traders. A woman comes over to him holding a small cat in a cage, points at the fat cats, and asks, 'What about these ones, Gareth?' Refers to Morgan, a New Zealand businessman and economist, and owner of the Phoenix, who launched a controversial campaign in early 2013 to eradicate domestic cats from New Zealand due to their capacity to kill native birds and other wildlife. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

Reference: DCDL-0023923

Description: Shows a cat visiting a vet and the owner tells the vet that her pet has a panic attack when the name 'Gareth Morgan' is mentioned. Refers to Gareth Morgan's campaign to rid New Zealand of domestic cats. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023868

Description: Shows a group of cats coming to attack Gareth Morgan. Morgan, a businessman and economist, launched a controversial campaign in early 2013 to eradicate domestic cats from New Zealand due to their capacity to kill native birds and other wildlife. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0024417

Description: Shows two rats reading a newspaper, and lamenting that cats are no longer to blame for the destruction of native bush and wildlife in New Zealand, despite a well publicised campaign by businessman Gareth Morgan in January 2013 to rid New Zealand of cats. Commentary from the cartoonist: 'One minute we're being encouraged to kill stray cats to save the bush, and the next minute we're told cats are fine but it's rats which are doing all the damage.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024252

Description: Shows 1697 French fairy tale character, Puss in Boots, wearing his trademark boots, hat, and cape, and carrying a sword, as he walks away from an airplane. Imitating the Spanish accent of actor Antonio Banderas who has portrayed animated versions of the character on screen, he says that this is the last time he will fly 'moggy class!' Moggy is a slang term for a mongrel cat. Wider context may refer to complaints regarding the comfort of economy class seats on airplanes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).