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Date: 1818-1968

By: Wilson, Geoffry Burns, 1904-1977

Reference: MS-Papers-1003

Description: Papers include correspondence concerning history and exploration of the Tararua Ranges, correspondence of tramping clubs in the areas, files on huts and wildlife in the Tararuas and printed material (mainly newspaper cuttings) There are also notes on the history of Wilson's (NZ), Portland Cement Ltd and family history. Further papers relating to the Federated Mountain Clubs, Tararua Tramping Club and John Pascoe; sample files are Nomenclature - Tararua District; Meetings - AGMs of other clubs; Pascoe - Tararua tramping; FMC newsletters; Huts and tracks - Waerenga; Easter 1933 - Hill & Co search; Accidents; Search parties (various names, including Philip Temple); and other topics Source of title - Supplied title Wilson was long-standing member of Tararua Tramping Club. Quantity: 58 folder(s). 0.58 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 4 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1970

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-059

Description: Shows MacIntyre and Holyoake dressed in military uniforms in a trench. There are people shouting and protesting around them. Refers to a comment MacIntyre made at a Rotary Club luncheon about hearing the cry of "conservation" around the New Zealand. Extended Title - ... It was good to hear the battle cry of "conservation" being heard around the country, the Minister of Lands (Mr MacIntyre) said at a Rotary Club luncheon in Wellington. Stop pollution! Save Manapouri! Stop rising prices! Stop exploitation! Conservation! No Tour! Stop ... More immigration! Help the farmer! Higher wages. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, 230 x 245mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1982

By: Webb, Marilynn Lois, 1937-2021; Loney, Alan Perress, 1940-; Hawk Press

Reference: E-286-f

Description: Portfolio of illustrated "recipes" reflecting current environmental concerns, produced to accompany exhibition at Dowse Art Museum, December 1982; prints are versions of the large watercolours exhibited. Title and production details from coloured title-page and colophon printed by Alan Loney. Some prints with added inscriptions by artist. Recipe for "Ngauruhoe snow" taken from: Basham, Maud Ruby, The Aunt Daisy cookbook. Auckland, 1968. For contents see shelf-list. No. 2 of limited edition of 19. Quantity: 19 colour art print(s). 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: 20 art prints ; linocut, coloured and handcoloured, images chiefly 169 x 224 mm or smaller, on sheets 404 x 302 mm, in black buckram box 440 mm ; 1 print black and white 347 x 247 mm

Date: 1973 - 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: C-133-010/040

Description: Includes cartoons about: Chinese nuclear weapons testing; Trawlermen blockading Wellington and Auckland harbours; Air New Zealand air fares; Cost cutting at hospitals; Fumigation because of a cockroach problem at Hutt Hospital elderly ward; Pollution in Wellington harbour and nuclear weapons testing at Mururoa; Wharfies knock off because of dead rat found in the hull of a ship; Air New Zealand passengers bypassing customs; Port hold up as 400 used cars are steam cleaned; New Zealand medical council; Railway fares rise by 10%; Industrial disruption from railway workers; Condemned railway carriages being demolished; Wellington airport runway; Gambling to see what will come first, an eruption of Mt. Egmont or a nuclear weapon being used in warfare; Doctor's going on strike; Bikies ruling the roads; Bus and train fares rising; Housing; Do it yourself medical treatment; Railway workers asked to report on their workmates to reduce pillaging; Australia to build four frigates for New Zealand; New Zealanders buy 3 Frances Hodgkins fakes; Defence cost cutting; Public health; Rio 1992. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, various sizes.

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: [1913-1916]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-188

Description: Correspondence, notes, agreements, etc relating to various business transactions; identified persons entered under Name Language - Brief note in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1972

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-100

Description: Norman Kirk, leader of the Labour opposition, steps into Lake Manapouri as two National MPs Duncan MacIntyre and Daniel Riddiford look on from a row boat. One of them remarks, 'I don't mind him jumping into a lake - but just not this one!'. The raising of the water level of Lake Manapouri was a contentious election issue during the 1972 election. The Labour government of Norman Kirk was elected with a platform that included a strong endorsement of the Save Manapouri Campaign. Extended Title - 'This should be good for a splash in the newspapers'.....Well-known scenic trouble-spot. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and whiteout on watercolour paper, 250 x 335 mm

Date: 1987

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[36 original political cartoons, drawn for the New Zealand Listener. 1984-1990; and two photocopies].

Reference: C-128-034

Description: A commentary on the destruction of natural beauty by and for greedy hotel owners and business people in Queenstown. Copy at H-509-030 Some of these cartoons may have been displayed in an exhibition curated by Roger Smith for the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust about 1990-1992 (or about 1986). Other Titles - Hotel Alpine. Motel. Colour TV. Best Western. Four ****. Vacancy *****. Welcome Inn. Spa Pol. Ambassador. Fiordland Executive Motel. Video. Sauna *****. Colour TV. Accommodation. Goldfields. Ski Hire. Beech Glade Motel ***** Vacancy. GF 5802. $$$$$. Expensive ski Expensive ski. Extended Title - 'We are now entering one of the most naturally beautiful areas of New Zealand..' 'Get out of my way....Don't you people realise who I am?' 'And over here we have The Remarkables..' 'Beech trees? We had to knock them down to build the motel....' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink. 445 x 640 mm

Date: 1972-1973

By: Jollie, Eleanor, active 1972-1993

Reference: MS-Papers-4731

Description: Consists of scrapbook which contains newspaper clippings relating to the Heaphy Track and the campaign to save it, correspondence, newsletters and flyers of the `Organsation to preserve the Heaphy Track' and correspondence, submissions, information sheets, reports, pamphlets relating to the Heaphy Track, Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers and other national parks. In 1972 it was proposed that a road be put through part of the North West Nelson Forest Park. This road would have affected 23 miles of the Heaphy Track and as a consequence the `Organisation to preserve the Heaphy Track' was formed.. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1900

Reference: MapColl-832gcr/19-?/Acc1742

Description: The base of this map is an un-named published map, presumed to be from Lands and Survey, which has been hand-coloured and covers the area of North Island from Kawhia across to Waipiro and southwards. Forest areas under control of State Forest Service, National Parks, Conservation Regions and Forest Areas are prominently marked and are referred to in a reference key. The boundaries of three named conservation regions, Auckland, Rotorua and Wellington are prominent. Title supplied by cataloguer from a pencilled note top left of map and the reference key. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, coloured, scale indeterminable, 79.7 x 89.7 cm.

Date: 1984

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1984-1989].

By: Whirinaki Forest Promotion Trust

Reference: Eph-C-ENVIRONMENT-1984-01

Description: Front of poster shows a photograph of totara trees in Whirinaki Forest. The verso gives the position of the main political parties towards logging in the Whirinaki Forest, and shows portraits of British Dr David J Bellamy and Dr John E Morton, Dr George P Barton, Mr Luitjen Bieringa, Sir Edmund Hillary, Dr Sidney M Mead, Dr John Ogden, Sir Guy R Powles and Mrs Catherine A Tizard. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on both sides of poster 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1984.

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries

Reference: MS-Papers-0261-07/08

Description: Contains ms note on Mokau River (maps and plates) Maps and plates

Date: 1951-1992

From: Natusch, Sheila Ellen, 1926-2017: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7035

Description: Papers relate to Noeline Baker's house `Moturau Moana' and its surrounding gardens on Stewart Island, built in 1935 and subsequently given by Baker to the Nation. They include, articles about the house and garden and lists of plants grown there. Also letters from Baker and others to Shelia Natusch relating to Natusch's research for her booklet `Moturau Moana' (Pegasus Press, 1956) containing a plea for support of the property with notes on the botany, zoology and geology of Stewart Island, 1956-1957. There are also letters to Natusch from Leah Taylor, 1987 relating to Taylor's essay on Baker for the `Dictionary of New Zealand biography'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs (photocopies)

Date: 1969-1972

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: MS-Papers-11462-02

Description: Folder comprises papers concerning conservation issues, specifically water classification changes and pollution in Porirua harbour and Pauatahanui inlet; and effects of a motorway extension on Keith George Park, Silverstream. Includes letters, handwritten notes, photocopies of newspaper clippings, reports, newsletters, notices. Also includes curriculum vitae for Peter Maurice Hancock. Arrangement: Material delivered to library in manilla folder labelled 'Conservation' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017637

Description: A woman, in extreme frustration, hauls her husband away from cricket on TV and tries to shove him out into the garden saying 'I agree - ripping up the land ruins the natural beauty of the countryside - but you're still going to dig the garden!' A newspaper on the floor has a headline reading 'OK given to mine conservation land'. Context - the government's decision to give the go-ahead to exploratory drilling for the mining of various minerals in several national parks. This is an extremely controversial move (led by Energy Minister, Gerry Brownlee), which conservationists and the tourist industry are not happy about. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014001

Description: The cartoon shows Minister of Energy and Resources, Gerry Brownlee, emerging from Christchurch's new 'Ocean Outfall' sewer pipeline; he holds a small pick in either hand and wears a mining helmet with a lamp and overalls. One of a group of officials at the pipeline launch observes that Gerry probably expected to find gold nuggets. Refers to the opening of the new sewer outlet and also to the contentious decision by the government to do test drilling for minerals in various national parks. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014846

Description: The cartoon shows Prime Minister John Key and Minister of Energy and Resources both doing u-turns - John Key is quite dapper about his but Gerry Brownlee slips over and loses his hat. Refers to the u-turn made by John Key after essentially having promised the Urewera National Park to Tuhoe and the backdown of Gerry Brownlee from a decision to mine some of the most valuable areas, conservation terms, areas of national parks. Other Titles - changing Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017345

Description: In the first of four frames ACT Party leader Rodney Hide, up to his waist in a hole he has dug, holds a newspaper with a headline that reads 'Mine the conservation land - Hide' and says 'This country is in a hole, and ACT says dig..! In the second frame he is up to his neck in the hole and he repeats 'When you're in a hole you should.' In the third frame the top of his head shows and in the fourth he has disappeared altogether but an anxious '..UM' rises from the hole. Context - Act leader Rodney Hide says mining conservation land is "vital to New Zealand's future success". Hide reopened the debate about mining at his party's annual conference on Sunday when he said Act would allow mining in conservation land. He told TV ONE's Breakfast today that "if we shut mining down, we shut New Zealand down". (TVNZ 16 March 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014430

Description: The cartoon is entitled 'English Grammar'. In the first of two frames a Tuhoe man points at a 'National Park' and says 'MINE!' which is described as 'the possessive pronoun' and in the second frame Minister for Energy and Resources points at the 'National Park' and says 'MINE!' which is described as 'the transitive verb'. Refers to the Tuhoe expectation that they were to be granted 'ownership' of the Urewera National Park' as part of a settlement; the expectation was dashed by an about-face by PM John Key who denied that the notion had ever been on the table. Gerry Brownlee, however, wants to start exploratory drilling for precious minerals in some national parks, some of the areas of interest being Schedule 4 pristine bush, supposedly absolutely protected from development of any sort. Tuhoe want to 'possess' ('mine' - hence possessive pronoun) and Brownlee wants to mine - hence, 'transitive verb'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).