Places

Date: 1955 - 1965

From: New Zealand Road Safety Council :Road safety. Your problem. To the householder. Published by McGregor Advertising and Publicity, Christchurch. 1955-1965?]

By: Luscombe, active 1960?

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Road-1960-01-2

Description: A board game distributed free by post, in order to teach the principles of road safety. This side is a road safety board game of 79 squares, to be played with dice. The game is surrounded by advertising for local Christchurch retail stores. Extended Title - From its "Road safety. Your problem" [1955-1965]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph, on light card, 312 x 512 mm.

Date: 1924

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to motor drivers' licences, driving tests]

By: New Plymouth (N.Z.). Borough Council

Reference: Eph-A-MOTOR-DRIVERS-LICENCE-1924-01

Description: Includes: New Plymouth Borough Council. Certificate of ability to drive and handle a motor car 1924 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset and holograph on folded card bound in red buckram, 58 x 90 mm (folded) Provenance: Donated by Mr B K Mountjoy, Paraparaumu, in 2008.

Date: 1983 - 1985

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Christchurch star (Newspaper : 1958- )

Reference: A-316-036/054

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. English royals sell off surplus New Zealand gifted wedding presents. New economy-fare airlines hit the skys. People encouraged to talk to their plants. Vehicle license fees up by 93%. Claims that human water-births would contribute to world peace.. Father's Day now celebrated during school holidays. Public response to grocery price-freeze. Maori rugby tours avoid arguements over racially selected teams. Two men muse over the reason for burning Guy Fawkes. Protesting at Waitangi on Wantangi Day. New Zealand fear of nuclear warships accelerates. Airlines begin serving liquor on board flights. Test-tube baby experiments have been approved in Auckland. People consider the 1984 'end of the world' scenario. Marsden Refinery workers return to work after their strike. Marsden Refinery workers strike. The Muldoon National Government calls a snap election amidst the Marsden Refinery strike. New Zealand resistance against the a USA Navy warship. Patients in the hospital outpatients get their respective wounds dealt to following protests for and against rugby tours and gay rights. Quantity: 19 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- : Cartoons entered in the 1992 Qantas Media Awards. 1992

Reference: H-223-004

Description: Shows a large sign on the side of the road which a car has just driven past. It is a caution to the driver that they are now entering "wild, scenic, untamed New Zealand". There are a number of people spread about the scene who are preforming violent acts on each other such as shootings, wife bashing and child molesting. Refers to New Zealand's crime rate. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1915 - 1919

By: Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: PA1-q-394

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1963

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to motor drivers' licences, driving tests]

By: Lower Hutt (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-A-MOTOR-DRIVERS-LICENCE-001-1963

Description: Includes space for details of the owner's name, address, occupation, date of birth, and date of licence issue. One page contains five-yearly fee coupon stickers. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 105 x 68 mm.

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: 2001 - 2002

From: Crimp, Daryl 1958-: 5 cartoons published in Otago Daily Times, between late December 2001 and 16 January 2002.

Reference: H-663-004

Description: Shows a car leaping over other cars in a rush to over-take. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopy

Date: 1995 - 1998

By: Crimp, Daryl, 1958-

Reference: A-338-080/159

Description: Political cartoons and caricatures Quantity: 80 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, A4 size. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1999.

Date: [1930s]

Reference: PAColl-8924

Description: Photographs of motor racing in the Auckland region, 1930s. Most photographs taken at Henning's Speedway or Gloucester Park, Auckland. Drivers include Arthur Dexter and George Smith. Automobiles include Riley, Bugatti, Essex and Austin. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2001 - 2002

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper); Crimp, Daryl, 1958-

Reference: H-663-001/005

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Contents cover making New Year resolutions, the morning after New Year celebrations, the day when 'no' murders in NZ makes the headlines, dangerous driving and Helen Clark's return to Waitangi. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 5 horozontal cartoon photocopies by Crimp, ink on paper.

Date: 1925 - 1935

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-095

Description: Repeated image shows a green black-topped automobile with spoke wheels. A couple is seated inside the vehicle, with the man at the steering wheel at the left side. In the foreground a woman is picking daffodils. The background shows trees including poplars beside Auckland Harbour with North Head and Rangitoto Island in the distance. Because the steering wheel is at the left, this image may have been copied from an American source. Or the printing process may have reversed the original drawn image. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - L. Rykers Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs, on sheet 255 x 315 mm.

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.

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: 1963 - 1982

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to motor drivers' licences, driving tests]

Reference: Eph-A-MOTOR-DRIVERS-LICENCE-001-1963-09

Description: Licence renewal stickers issued in 1963, 1968, 1973, 1977 and 1982, each to expire five years after issue. Quantity: 1 page of five stickers. Physical Description: Five stickers, approximately 15 x 50 mm, on page 105 x 68 mm.