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Date: 1967 - 1970

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-032

Description: Workers for the Natural gas Company explain to an irate householder why they are installing a gas pipe parallel to the power lines using the electrical power poles as support. Extended Title - Natural Gas Company. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Reproduction of black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 358 x 514 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1969

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-033

Description: The words 'natural gas potential' are loaming out of Tom Shand's pipe to the alarm of the power board men gathered around the seance table. Extended Title - The possibility of discovering vast quantities of natural gas in NZ must be taken into account - Mr Shand at the Electrical Supply Authorities conference. Natural gas potential. Power Boards Seance, Tom Shand, medium. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 320 x 481 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1935 - 1959

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: A-321-010

Description: Shows a group of men friends cooking a chicken over a fire outside their snow-covered cottage in the mountains. One is operating a radio with headphones, another chases a pukeko, another talks to a stag, one is chased by a deer, whilst yet others climb the side of a mountain in the background. The radio operator says: (according to text stuck on beneath image): "Civilisation coming through at last! What message shall I give them?" The chicken-cooker replies: "Vote of thanks to the Matson Line for their excellent idea!" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on sheet 235 x 290 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1950

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-02-039

Description: Shows two children, Auckland and N. Shore, looking through a glass window and pointing excitedly at an electrified railway system going through a city landscape. Published in the Auckland herald on 4 October 1950. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 145 x 225 mm.

Date: 1937

From: Minhinnick, Gordon :[Three cartoon laser copies, published in the New Zealand Herald, August - September 1937].

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: H-540-002

Description: The cartoon shows a man representing New Zealand, playing rugby and scoring a try. However he has put the ball down at the 25 yard line instead of the try line. Two players from the opposing team, representing British agriculture and Morrison, are laughing as they watch. Two New Zealand farmers are watching with complete surprise. Refers to New Zealand agriculture. Extended Title - "I could always raise a laugh in any British audience by assuring them that the try that Wales was alleged to have scored in 1905 was not a try at all. They all remembered the All Blacks." - Hon Walter Nash. Quantity: 1 Laser copy. Physical Description: Laser copy, A4 size.

Date: 1950

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-02-058

Description: Shows Mr T C Webb pushing against the stones of Mt Eden prison, so forcefully that he makes a hole in the wall, and the prisoners and guards look on in surprise. Published in the Auckland herald on 3 November 1950. Other Titles - "I intend to throw all my wieght behind the proposal to shift the Auckland Gaol from Mt Eden" - Mr Webb. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 145 x 225 mm.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-030

Description: Tom Shand, New Zealand Minister of Mines and of Electricity, is holding a bottle from which a genie, labelled Kapuni, is emerging to the alarm of watching men labelled power boards and coal. Mount Taranaki is in the background. Extended Title - Kapuni. Power Boards. Coal. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 291 x 397 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1981

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Hodgson, Trace, 1958-; Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Dominion (Newspaper); Press (Christchurch, N.Z.); New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-691-001/004

Description: Cartoons by Eric Heath (Dominion, 3 Feb 1981), Trace Hodgson (The Press, 2 Feb 1981), Nevile Lodge (Evening Post, 2 Feb 1981) and Gordon Minhinnich (New Zealand Herald, 3 Feb 1981), all relating to the incident on 1 February 1981 when the Australian team beat the New Zealand team at cricket by bowling underarm. Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies from newspaper

Date: 1935 - 1940

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: A-091-064

Description: Prime Minister Michael Savage and Minister of Education Peter Fraser, each wearing a 'W.E.A' tie, are greeted 'G'day Mick!' and 'Howdy Pete!' by two men in the street. The greeting seems to offend Savage and Fraser who call the men 'cads'. Text reads 'The Prime Minister and several members of cabinet were at one time members of W.E.A. classes - it might not be a bad thing for our opponents if they were to go to W.E.A. classes now, but it might be a very dangerous thing for us if they did. Perhaps we should lay down a condition for a subsidy that you will not admit ex-cabinet ministers. Hon P. Fraser, Minister of Education.' Context: Suggests anxiety about class origins by the PM and Minister of Education. Handwritten in ink on verso 'Original by Minhinnick (Auckland) in one of Wellington newspapers about 1932'. Librarian questions that date as Savage was PM from 1935 to 1940 which is clearly when the cartoon was drawn. There is also an address handwritten in ink on verso 'V.G. Newman, 40A Wright St., Wellington. April/64'. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1971 - 1974

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: B-187-001

Description: Shows Neville Pickering(?) relaxing in a garden on a deck chair. Over the fence, two men (possibly Sir Dove-Myer Robinson and Frank Kitts) are shaking a plum tree, and Robinson raises a spade in anger. The tree has a single fruit ('the Games') which looks set to fall into Pickering's garden Christchurch hosted the 10th Commonwealth Games in 1974, with Pickering in place as Mayor at the time Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick / NZ Herald, 16.11.71 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 277 by 413 mm on sheet 390 x 495 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Ephemera (Eph-D-LOCAL-Christchurch-1971/1973); other items transferred to Manuscripts, Photographic Archive and published collections.

Date: 1973

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Minhinnick (A-311-1), Mack (A-311-2) and Bird (A-311-3).

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: A-311-1-043

Description: New Zealand prime minister Norman Kirk creeps along apologetically, holding a small, shakily written 'No Tour' placard, behind a group of determined and angry protestors who are marching to stop rugby sporting tours to and from South Africa as a protest against South Africa's policy of apartheid. A line of policemen hold back the watching crowd. Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping.. Physical Description: Newspaper cutting 140mm x 200mm.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-031

Description: Four 'cavalry' representing the power boards and using electrical power poles as lances are charging into a circle of gas pipes which are firing like canons. Refers to the competition natural gas was now giving the electricity industry. Extended Title - Power Boards. Natural Gas. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. 350 x 480 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-028

Description: Natural gas is portrayed as a greyhound asleep in the starting gate while power charges as the hare race off. He is watched by a bemused New Zealand Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake, men representing the power boards and a frustrated man representing the general public. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 288 x 415 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1950

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-01-082

Description: Shows a couple looking at six pictures, entitled: "The house next door - to let"; "Butcher!" (butcher delivers meat to the housewife's door); "Still life" (Scotch whisky bottle and glass); "Auckland Harbour" (no ships tied up by striking workers); "Rice pudding" (good old-fashioned dessert); "Certainly Madam, we'll send them on approval this afternoon" (polite treatment from shop salesman). Published in the Auckland Herald on 10 March 1950. Other Titles - Look, John, How quaint! - No ships waiting at anchor! Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping. Physical Description: newspaper clipping, 152 x 227 mm.

Date: 1950

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-01-068

Description: Shows two women gossiping over the teacups. They are labelled Christchurch and Wellington and they are talking about a woman labelled Auckland, who stands in the right background listening to them. Published in the Auckland Star on 22 February 1950. Other Titles - Scandal Other Titles - News - Vancouver journalist criticies Auckland Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping. Physical Description: newspaper clipping, 150 x 225 mm.

Date: 1964

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: J-044-011

Description: Shows Holyoake and Nash talking. Holyoake is looking over his shoulder at an angry Asian man (probably President Sukarno of Indonesia) who is running with a sword in his hand towards another man (Malaysia). Refers to relations between New Zealand and South East Asia. Exhibited in 'The Line-Up' exhibition of 36 cartoons by 36 cartoonists curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library auditorium foyer from 5 April 2002 to mark the tenth anniversary of establishment of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 laser copy

Date: 1970

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994

Reference: B-182-001

Description: Cartoon made during the Queen's visit to New Zealand in March 1970, shows a steamship bedecked with flags, sailing on a clear "carpet" of water between flotillas of small yachts and motorboats. Rangitoto Island can be seen in the right distance. Note from the New Zealand History website http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/, retrieved 4 June 2010: "12-30 March, 1970: The Queen participated in the James Cook bicentenary celebrations and introduced Prince Charles and Princess Anne to New Zealand". Other Titles - 24 March 1970 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing with letratone, image 265 x 405 mm on sheet 365 x 465 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1812 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1812.

Date: 1964

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: E-549-q-13-203

Description: An Asian leader (possibly President Sukarno of Indonesia) violently threatening a surprised-looking looking President of Malaysia in the background, while, in the foreground, Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, is advising New Zealand Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake, that any interference could cause trouble. Refers to the explosive political situation in South-East Asia and the creation of the state of Malaysia Another copy of the same cartoon held at E-549-q-13-004 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on newspaper cutting, 150 x 210 mm. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1964

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-13-004

Description: Shows Holyoake and Nash talking. Holyoake is looking over his shoulder at an angry Asian man (probably President Sukarno of Indonesia) who is running with a sword in his hand towards another man (Malaysia). Refers to relations between New Zealand and South East Asia. Exhibited in 'The Line-Up' exhibition of 36 cartoons by 36 cartoonists curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library auditorium foyer from 5 April 2002 to mark the tenth anniversary of establishment of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopy

Date: 1972

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-13-247

Description: Political cartoon about Prime Minister Robert Muldoon taking on all comers in the boxing ring. Refers to Muldoon's perceived aggressive style Extended Title - 'Socko! For the anti-tour boys!...-And one for Labour's race relations...This for political strikers!...Wham! Goes the Auckland City Council...One two! For the Master Builders!...Now who else can I think of?' Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping. Physical Description: newspaper clipping