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NEWS; After some safety concerns, Ports of Auck will no longer use GUNPOWDER supplies f...
Date: 2010
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0013757
Description: The cartoon shows a kiwi joker dropping ash from his cigarette into a barrel of gunpowder and indignantly asking what 'youse blouses are wingeing about' when a safety officer sweating with fear orders him out. A second worker has tripped over spilling his barrel of gunpowder and dropping his cigarette and beercan. Text above reads 'News, After some safety concerns, Ports of Auck. Will no longer store gunpowder supplies for an Oz. company. Risk Management Authority (Erma) has given Australian company Defence Logistics a permit to unload four containers each containing up to 14 tonnes of gunpowder at the port and store them temporarily at a holding area before re-loading them. But the Friends of the Earth environmental group says the gunpowder should be kept well clear of the country's largest city. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
News. A man, detected by a sniffer dog at Auckland Airport, was smuggling a bird's egg ...
Date: 2005
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0004684
Description: Shows at man smuggling a bird's egg in his underwear being discovered by a sniffer dog at the Auckland Airport. The smuggler's hands are up in the air and shows the egg that he was carrying in his underwear has hatched. The smuggler exclaims "Yikes! My plan hatched at each end!" while the sniffer dog is pointing and sniffing at the hatched bird's egg. Refers to a New Zealand man who tried to smuggle a bird's egg from Australia by hiding it in his underwear. He was caught by a sniffer dog when he arrived at the Auckland Airport on 11 January 2005. Published in New Zealand Shipping Gazette Arrangement: This cartoon file was orginally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'NZ Shipping Gaz' which was inside a folder called 'AWS Cartoon Highlights, Nov'04-May'07' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :'Damn those Aussie headhunters!'. 22 March 2012
Date: 2012
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0020686
Description: Shows two men looking aghast and irate. One man is shaking his fist and looking at a headless man holding a walkie talkie and clipboard who is slumped against a wharf bollard in which a boomarang is embedded. The other man looks back at a headless forklift driver who has crashed into a shipping container in which an arrow is embedded. Text reads 'A successful Oz recruitment drive has snared quite a few NZ Rail and martitime workers'. Context: In March 2012 Statistics New Zealand released a report which shows a record number of people left for Australia in 2011 (Stuff website 24 April 2012). On 19 March KiwiRail announced sale of Hillside rail engineering workshops in Dunedin. On 7 March 2012 Ports of Auckland announced plans to make 300 workers redundant and hire other workers to do their jobs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).