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Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Solid Pike. 4 October 2014
Date: 2014
From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Reference: DCDL-0029554
Description: Shows the Pike River families as miners making their way into the ear of 'Solid Energy'. One of the mines announce "Here's the plan... first, we try and fina a heart!". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Moreu, Michael, 1969- :White lies bridge. 7 November 2014
Date: 2014
From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]
Reference: DCDL-0030367
Description: Cartoon shows a sign for the White Knight Bridge, leading to the Pike River Mine site. The bridge has been closed off with a second sign reading, 'Danger no Pike River re-entry possible', and the sign for the bridge has been changed with the word 'Knight' crossed out and replaced by the word, 'lies'. Cartoon references Solid Energy's decision to not re-enter the mine, which suffered an explosion on 19 November 2010 that killed 29 miners and contractors, with two others suffering injuries. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Hubbard, James, 1949- :'Pike River Tragedy'. 20 December 2013
Date: 2013
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
By: Setford News Photo Agency
Reference: DCDL-0027005
Description: The cartoon shows a gravestone labelled 'Pike River Tragedy - Dead and buried by management, bureaucracy, and government of NZ.' In front of the graves stone is bottle with a single dead flower and a note saying 'Sorry - Govt'. On 12 December 2013 the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment dropped charges against Peter Whittall, the Pike River Chief Executive, over the deaths at the Pike River mine. There was no closure for the families of the victims. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
News; Despite running on a skeleton, 3-person staff, Port Greymouth carries a debt it i...
Date: 2009
From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]
Reference: DCDL-0012396
Description: Three skeletons, the staff of Port Greymouth, sit around gloomily trying to think of ways to reduce the port's debt. One of them hits on a Halloween party fundraiser. The Grey District Council intends selling harbour board land to cover the $2 million debt that is strangling the Port of Greymouth. Port Westland Ltd, the company created in happier times when Pike River Coal was intending to export coal via the Grey River, will be wound up in June, dumping a host of upgrade and maintenance problems back in the lap of the council, as owner. Published in Shipping Gazette Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).