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City of Dunedin. Mayoral banquet in commemoration of the opening of the Dunedin and Chr...
Date: 1878
From: New Zealand Railways: [Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1800s]
By: George, Thomas, -1889
Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1878-01
Description: A toast list. Those toasted included the Royal Family, the Governor, the Army, Navy & Volunteers, The Ministry, The Parliament of New Zealand, Sir Julius Vogel, the Mayor of Christchurch, visitors, the ladies. Surrounded by an elaborate border possibly inspired by Maori or Polynesian design. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on card. Physical Description: Lithograph on light card, 228 x 155 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2002.
"Chin said he'd have the city back on its feet... And thanks to his parking and public ...
Date: 2009
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0011745
Description: Shows crowds of people walking in the streets of Dunedin. One man comments to his friend that Mayor Peter Chin said that he would have the city back on its feet and thanks to the parking and public transport whizkids they are - literally. Refers to the city council's decision to increase all bus fares, cancel all free short time parking, instal pay and display machines and at the same time increase fees to as much as $4 per hour. For years thrifty Dunedin motorists have enjoyed free parking. But this week the council replaced almost 700 short term parks with new pay and display meters. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Nick Smith, Your Worship... we're keen to push this ETS thing through, against the pub...
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).
Pushing it uphill. 5 January 2009
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).
DCC ISSUES MORE THAN 70,000 PARKING TICKETS. 2 February 2010
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).
NZ's UPHILL REPRESENTATIVE. SPENDING. 24 February 2010
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).
"Chin said he'd have the city back on its feet... And thanks to his parking and public ...
Date: 2009
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0011746
Description: Shows crowds of people walking in the streets of Dunedin. One man comments to his friend that Mayor Peter Chin said that he would have the city back on its feet and thanks to the parking and public transport wizards they are - literally. Refers to the city council's decision to increase all bus fares, cancel all free short time parking, instal pay and display machines and at the same time increase fees to as much as $4 per hour. For years thrifty Dunedin motorists have enjoyed free parking. But this week the council replaced almost 700 short term parks with new pay and display meters. Variation of DCDL-0011745 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
As Peter Chin prepares to hand over the chain... 11 October 2010
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0015781
Description: Shows defeated Dunedin mayor Peter Chin who is preparing to hand to his successor Dave Cull his mayoral chain of office to which is attached a huge weight of 'debt'. Three people in the background chat about old habits never dying as Peter Chin tries to borrow a pen so that he can sign off. Dave Cull is a left-wing candidate who won the Dunedin mayoralty in the local body election held on 9th October. Peter Chin's main 'debt' is the new stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Smith, Ashley W., 1948- :Och, that's an expensive bottle of wine, sir. MG business - me...
Date: 2002
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; MG business - mercantile gazette (Periodical)
Reference: DX-023-068
Description: The scene is outside a pub where a parking warden dressed in a kilt is writing out a parking ticket for a car which already has 4 parking fine notices on its windscreen. The owner of the car is coming out of the pub carrying a large bottle of wine and is looking horrified as he sees the parking notices. The parking meter says 'only just expired'. Refers to Dunedin City Council and parking fines. Extended Title - Ye thrifty Caledonian plonkerette Quantity: 1 digital image(s).
Smith, Hayden James, 1976- : "I know I LOOK like a vicious killer. But actually I ident...
Date: 2011
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0017781
Description: A large aggressive-looking dog tells his small hairy friend 'I know I LOOK like a vicious killer, but I actually identify more with my Labrador side - My great great granddoggy was one, y'know'. The small dog replies 'I imagine it's quite hard to communicate that with snarls and barks'. Context - The mother of an 8-year-old Dunedin boy whose ear was ripped in half when he was mauled by a dog says dangerous breeds "should all be shot". Only about 200 of the 15,343 dogs registered in Dunedin are regarded as menacing or dangerous, Dunedin City Council senior animal control officer Jim Pryde says. (NZ Herald 2 May 2011 and Newsline 5 May 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"It's an Oriental thing... Anyone who changes direction or even slows down risks losing...
Date: 2009
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0010594
Description: Dunedin's mayor, Peter Chin, runs in the direction of the Stadium, pulling two men along behind him by ropes that are attached to rings through their noses. The two men represent the Dunedin City Council and the Otago Regional Council. An onlooker says that an Oriental belief makes changing direction or slowing down makes one risk losing face. Mayor Chin is Chinese. Refers to the fact that Mayor Chin is a supporter of the building of the controversial stadium in Dunedin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"So if I've no idea what it's going to cost, I just tell 'em what they want to hear, an...
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0014527
Description: The cartoon shows Minister of Local Government, Rodney Hide, sitting at a desk on which lies a large folder named 'Auckland Supercity'. Rodney Hide is on the phone and tells 'Mr Farry' that if he has no idea of the cost he just tells people what he thinks they want to hear and hope they all forget by the time it all hits the fan. Refers to the creation of the Auckland 'super city' by amalgamating several separate local bodies - Rodney Hide is asking Stadium Trust Chairman Malcolm Farry for advice on how to push through a piece of legislation that has a lot of critics as had the new Forsyth Barr Stadium. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
[Speed voting] 28 June 2010
Date: 2010
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0014673
Description: A group of councillors sit round a table lit by a candle as a man speaks from a lectern. Two women appear besotted but a man rolls his eyes and indicates that he feels sick. A new pre-local election initiative loosely based on speed-dating has been planned to bring voters and council candidates together. Methodist Mission chief executive Laura Black said her organisation would run the event in an attempt to encourage people to take part in this year's local body elections. Ms Black said she was concerned falling voter numbers could mean a ''death spiral'' for local democracy. She hoped to extend the idea to general elections. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Why aren't you doing your homework?" "It's too hard! I'm no good at it!" "That's not t...
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0014644
Description: A small boy complains to his mother that he is not doing his homework because it is too hard. His father is reading the newspaper which has the headline 'Chin to stand again' - extrapolating from that he tells the boy that if he cannot do something the first time he should try again. Refers to the news that Dunedin's mayor Peter Chin is seeking re-election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"The election billboards will be going up soon." "Apart from this stadium, what has the...
Date: 2010
From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0015424
Description: Four people in the new Dunedin stadium chat as they wait for the game to start. One of them comments that the election billboards will be going up soon and another wonders what the current council has done apart from build this stadium; someone else has a vague notion that they have made lots of interesting plans but then the game starts and no-one cares anymore as they yell for their side - the Taniwhas. The reference is to the controversial building of the new Dunedin Stadium and the sense that many of the public are somewhat disengaged anyway. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
The Chinese Garden. 3 February 2011
Date: 2011
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017113
Description: A crowd of people watch a Chinese dragon parading through the new Chinese Garden in Dunedin to mark the 'Year of the Rabbit'. Someone says 'This'll be good for the gardens - they just need to hold some more regularly-occurring celebrations' and someone else suggests 'Council employee of the month'. Context - the running of the Chinese Garden is estimated at over $500,000 a year and along with the new Forsyth Barr Stadium is a burden on Dunedin rate payers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
DCC STADIUM SPENDING. "Another recall... accelerator permanently stuck!" 5 February 2010
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0013616
Description: Two mechanics stare at a car that represents 'DCC Stadium Spending' that is raised in the garage for servicing and one comments that there will have to be another recall as the accelerator is permanently stuck. Refers to the blow-out in Dunedin of spending on the new stadium, controversial because of the load put on ratepayers. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Dunedin Coffee Club!" 17 July 2010
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0014819
Description: A man and his young son walk past the Dunedin City Council building. He tells his son that the 'DCC' stands for 'Dunedin Coffee Club'. Refers to an opinion about the effectiveness of the DCC. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Thanks mate... we did do a fine job of capping the spill. But capping Council spending...
Date: 2010
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0014821
Description: A man is filling up his car at a BP petrol station. The BP employee serving him comments that BP did a fine job capping the oil spill but they didn't manage to cap council spending. Refers to the increased rates bills for Dunedin residents because of the new stadium. Refers also to attempts, as yet not wholly successful, by BP, to cap the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Tremain, Garrick, 1941-:"I think we could bomb in Dunedin" 28 March 2011
Date: 2011
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017389
Description: A group of clowns sit around a table playing cards near the circus tents. One of them says that they could bomb in Dunedin because 'with their Council and Stadium Trust they've had their fill of clowns and circuses'. (By 'bomb' he means fail financially). Context - Problems over the costs to ratepayers of the new stadium and other council initiatives like the Japanese Garden. There is a second version of this cartoon at DCDL-0017388. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).