Places

Date: 1920 - 1926

Reference: Eph-A-ATHLETICS-1920/1926

Description: Includes: 1920: Kaponga Athletic Sports in aid of St Dunstan's Blinded Soldiers' Children's Fund, Victoria Park, Kaponga, Thursday April 22nd 1920. Programme. 1920: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Twenty-ninth New Zealand Amateur Championship meeting. Basin Reserve, 17 January 1920. official programme 1922: Amateur athletics. Springboks New Zealand tour. South Africa v New Zealand, Athletic Park. 25 February 1922. Official souvenir programme. 1923: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Thirty-second New Zealand Amateur Championship meeting. Athletic Park, 24 February 1923. Official programme 1923: Visit of American athletes J W Merchant, C G Krogness and M Kirksey. 17 February [1923] (date confirmed from newspaper) 1924: Rahotu Athletic Club. Annual sports. Wednesday 14th May 1924. Programme. 1925: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Championships to be held in Cook's Garden Wanganui, 27-28 February 1925. Programme of events (2 copies) 1925: Wanganui Amateur Athletic Association. Offical program [sic] for annual sports meeting featuring Randel [ie Randolph] A Rose, Australasian record breaker. Cook's Gardens, 28 November 1925. 1925: Wellington Centre NZ Amateur Athletic Association. Australia v Wellington. Athletic park, 21 February 1925. Official programme 1925: West Coast N.I. Centre Amateur Athletic Championships to be held on Showgrounds, Hawera, Easter Saturday, 11 April 1925. Official souvenir programme 1926: Wanganui Caledonian Society. 43rd annual gathering Cook's Gardens, Saturday February 6th 1926. [Programme] 1926: New Zealand Amateur Athletic Championships to be held on Caledonian Grounds, 19-20 March 1926. Programme 1926: Levin Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club. Manawatu Sub Centre NZAAA. American invitation electric light sports meeting. Thursday February 11th 1926. First event at 7.30 pm. Official programme Quantity: 13 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes varying under 250 mm. Provenance: One programme donated from the estate of Alan Rowse, 1977; some donated by Athletics New Zealand in 2013.

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0011750

Description: A group of men make their views known to Mayor Peter Chin about the future of Dunedin's Carisbrook stadium. They say that with a roof it would make a great sports stadium and a perfect home for the ORU (Otago Rugby Union) who have just sold theirs. Refers to the continuing saga of the sports stadium. In July the 15 members of the Dunedin City Council will decide on Monday whether to contribute $85 million towards the stadium's construction, while on Wednesday the 11-strong Otago Regional Council will debate its proposed $37.5 million contribution. A planned 35,000-seat, roofed, multi-use ground would replace the 30,000-capacity park that has been the home of Otago rugby and cricket for more than a century. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012675

Description: The cartoon shows Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin who sprays with a spray gun a 'Rate payer' who is holding a paper headed 'public concern'. Peter Chin says nonchalantly 'See?.. I jus' spray!.. and walk awaaay!!!' Refers to the strong opposition to the new stadium by many ratepayers for which their rates will have to partly pay. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010427

Description: In a series of four frames a man applies for resource consent but is frustrated by all the terms and conditions. His wife tells him that he doesn't need to worry about terms and conditions because they were only applied in the case of the stadium as a joke and were ignored. Refers to the controversy over the building of a new stadium in Dunedin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010724

Description: The mayor of Dunedin, Peter Chin, asks two elderly people to do their bit to pay for the new stadium so that the fat cat businessmen standing behind him can watch their football in luxury. Refers to the debate in Dunedin about the building of a new stadium and its potentially great cost to ratepayers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014455

Description: Shows Minister for Climate Change issues Nick Smith on the phone asking for advice from 'Your Worship' (Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin) and 'Mr Harland' (CEO of the Dunedin City Council) about how to push 'this ETS thing through against the public's wishes and reason'. Nick Smith thinks that the way Peter Chin and the Dunedin City Council got their way in the building of the new Forsyth Barr Stadium against great opposition led by a group calling itself 'Stop the Stadium' means that they should be able to advise him about how to get people to accept the need for increased prices because of the ETS. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014594

Description: A huge crowd of people flock towards the Carisbrook Stadium. A man in the crowd comments to his friend that 'It'll be great to have a new stadium pulling in decent crowds'. Refers to the last test to be played at Carisbrook when the All Blacks played Wales on June 19, the All Blacks winning 42-9. Refers also to the new Forsyth Barr Stadium at University Plaza, planned for opening in August 2011 in time to host Dunedin's 2011 Rugby World Cup games. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010813

Description: A yacht named 'City of Dunedin' has been pulled below the surface of the sea by a huge chain representing 'stadium' that is attached to the yacht by too short a chain. Two fish swimming by comment that had they had more bvrains they would have bought more chain and a smaller anchor. Refers to the controversy because of the difficult economic climate over the building of a large new stadium in Dunedin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014671

Description: The cartoon shows a bottomless pit into which a dump-truck is tipping a heap of money. A contractor counts up to 'three million'. A seagull comments that it can't see the cents in it' (play on 'cents' and 'sense') and its mate flies of for Big Wednesday'. A street sign reads 'Awatea St.'. Refers to the building of the new Forsyth Barr stadium which will replace the old Carisbrook. 'Big Wednesday' refers to the last rugby test played at Carisbrook. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013457

Description: The cartoon shows Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin sitting in a Dunedin City Council (DCC) car laden with a $360m debt and being pushed up a hill by a sweating '(I)rate payer'. Refers to the cost being born by Dunedin ratepayers of the new stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0003356

Description: The cartoon shows a concept drawing of the new Dunedin stadium which has a roof in the shape of the cloth cap that the Chair, Dunedin Ratepayers and Householder's Association, Syd Adie, usually wears. Refers to Syd Adie's strong opposition to Dunedin rate payers having to foot such a large proportion of the cost for the new stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010224

Description: Two men playing outdoor bowls have a conversation about Bill English who they think is sending confused messages to the public by preaching fiscal prudence on the one hand but supporting the building of the Dunedin stadium on the other. Refers to the recession and also to the controversial Dunedin stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013613

Description: The cartoon shows an angry woman who has just been issued with a parking ticket and who has accused the traffic officer of carrying out a 'personal vendetta'. As the traffic officer returns to his bike he thinks with irritation about the accusation and wonders whether she wants a stadium or not. Text above reads 'DCC issues more than 70,000 parking tickets. Refers to the blow-out in the cost of the controversial Dunedin stadium and the sense that the public feel they are being squeezed to pay for it. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012523

Description: Two men walk past the construction site of the new Carisbrook stadium in Dunedin. One of them comments that it is 'rocketing upwards' and the other replies that 'It's bound to smash into Otago rugby travelling the other way!' Refers to the hope that revenue from the completed stadium will play a large part in paying for it and the City Council is relying on Otago Rugby for most of the revenue. However Otago Rugby has had to be bailed out of financial difficulty because it is not proving popular enough to attract enough paying customers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0013772

Description: The cartoon shows a skier heading up a mountain track that has the word 'spending' printed on it. Text reads 'NZ's uphill representative'. The skier is Mayor Peter Chin of Dunedin who is being criticised because of the huge expense to ratepayers of the new stadium. There is also a reference to the Winter Olympics that are in progress in Vancouver. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0007220

Description: Shows two American visitors to Dunedin wanting to see a giant albatross. They are standing near the Awatea Street sign and a man walking his dog advises them to just stick around. Refers to the contentious Awatea Street Stadium or New Carisbrook (tentative name) which is a proposed rugby union stadium that would be built in Dunedin, replacing the current Carisbrook as the home stadium of Highlanders Super 14 club. It has a planned opening date of 2010 or 2011, and is scheduled to host some matches of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. People can see the giant albatross at the Otago Harbour Heads. The albatross can also represent a terrible burden suffered as in 'an albatross around the neck'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014559

Description: The cartoon shows two men sitting reading in their hospital beds. One is reading the newspaper and says that he sees that the 'stadium's going to be finished on time for the World Cup. The other man believes him until he hears that the source was the same as that which said that the stadium would be finished on budget. Refers to the building of the controversial Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014634

Description: The cartoon shows text '1908 - 2010' and 'The Brook' with letters at the end of the word fading out. Refers to the farewell of Dunedin's Carisbrook, one of the grand old venues of New Zealand test rugby. The All Blacks played their last test ever at Carisbrook on 20 June 2010 against Wales, which the All Blacks won 42 ... 9. Test rugby will continue in the new stadium which will open in 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0012580

Description: Two men walk past a dairy that has several posters leaning against its wall referring to the Rugby World Cup and the stadium spending frenzies in both Auckland and Dunedin as well as the suggestion that the World Cup is predicted to lose $40 million. One of the men believes that it all went so wrong when Hobbs, Umanga and Clark lumbered NZ with the last thing it needs. Refers to the decision to bring the Rugby World Cup to New Zealand in 2011 by former PM Helen Clark, Jock Hobbs the chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and former All Black captain Tama Imanga. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

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

Reference: DCDL-0010533

Description: A grandfather reads a fairytale to hus grandchildren. The story is called "'The magically affordable stadium' & other classic Farry stories". Refers to fact that the government has given its support for the Forsyth Barr Stadium. Malcolm Farry is the Chairman of the Stadium Trust. The Government has written a letter confirming that it will underwrite development of the Forsyth Barr Stadium at University Plaza as a major milestone. There is a wordplay on 'Farry' and 'fairy'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).