Local taxation

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[25 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in September and October, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-271

Description: Cartoon shows a man representing the Auckland ratepaers. He stares gloomily into a toilet bowl at what is within. A can of "fresh ideas" stands beside him on the floor. Other Titles - October Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 181 x 270 mm.

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[20 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in November and December, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-283

Description: Cartoon shows Auckland as an athlete crouching poised to begin a race. At the right, a voice prepares him for paying up, and points a gun at him. Other Titles - November Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 138 x 220 mm.

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-100

Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Contains images related to: Otari Native Botanic Garden, Lady McKenzie Garden for the Blind (Thorndon), Percy's Scenic Reserve (Lower Hutt), Rotary Garden Court, Sinclair Park, Staglands, and Western Park (Wilton). Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 20 May 2007

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-101

Description: Shows Finance Minister Michael Cullen as a highway robber holding up a couple in their motor vehicle and demanding they hand over money for the proposed Regional Petrol Tax in Auckland City. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - 186mm x 133mm leader page cartoon Pls scan, correct + send to Pix-on-hand [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 300 x 420mm

Date: 26 November 2006

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-247

Description: Shows Bono from U2 on stage while Auckland City Mayor Dick Hubbard is in the front row of the concert holding his hat out for a hand out. Other concert revellers look at Hubbard in disgust. Bono tells Hubbard that he knows what his ratepayers mean when they say that they want a stadium built 'pro bono'. Refers to the development of a stadium in Auckland. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 27 CARTOON 186mm x 133 Pls scan, correct and send to Pix-on-hand [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).

Date: Jul 1867-Apr 1868

By: Tingle, James, active 1867-1870

Reference: Micro-MS-0787

Description: Accounts of bookseller and stationer, receipts for local body rates Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 100 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1971 - 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989:Five cartoons by Lodge on the 1974 Commonwealth Games.

Reference: A-349-048

Description: Shows Neville Pickering, who was Mayor of Christchurch from 1971-1974, standing outside an office door which reads 'Christchurch Commonwealth Games Organisation'. He has crossed out the word 'Common' and painted 'Ratepayers'' above it. He shakes his fist in earnest. A number of reporters stand in front of him, and two Christchurch ratepayers stand to the left, looking alarmed Context: Possibly alludes to the amount of extra money Christchurch ratespayers were pressured to produce in order to host the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Nevile Lodge 71 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, whiteout and letratone with some colour background; 225 x 320 mm on sheet 305 x 390 mm

Date: 1958

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-064

Description: The Mayor of Auckland, Keith Buttle, holding two rolled up promises behind his back, one to maintain essential services, one to keep rates down. He is offering the men standing around him a choice. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1958

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-165

Description: Shows a very angry man ranting about the price of rates. He is at an office labelled 'Pay rates here' and is clutching a piece of paper titled 'Rates demand' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue coloured pencil on card, 255 x 318 mm

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-009

Description: Shows a man and his wife sitting in their living room. The man is reading the newspaper and looks upset. The front page reads 'England wins test by 1 innings and 71 runs. Petrol up, beer up, tobacco up, rates up, and now... hotels to charge ninepence for a nine' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue coloured pencil on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: [21 September 2016]

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: [Original cartoons by Chris Slane featured in a retrospective exhibition at Alta Gallery, Wellington, 8-22 October 2016.]

Reference: A-474-029

Description: A father and mother of many children sit on the porch of their house which is one in a suburb of shacks in a swampy shanty-town. The mother tries to be positive by saying 'Well, at least we kept rates down'. Refers to the housing bubble crisis of 2016. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - SLANE.co.nz [in graphite] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and graphite on card, 227 x 305 mm

Date: 1970 - 2029

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-A-VALUATION-1970/2029

Description: 1978: N.Z. Institute of Valuers (Inc). "Continuing education; a seminar organised by the Wellington Branch. NZ Founders Clubrooms, Wakefield House, 90 The Terrace, Wellington, 6-7 October 1978. Programme 1989: New Zealand Institute of Valuers. Take control of your career with NZIV membership. [1989?] 1990s: Understanding your rating value (QV) 1993: Valuation New Zealand. The value of council rates; general background to rating and valuation [1993?] 2000s: Understanding your rating value (QV) 2006: Gain reassurance around your rating value; a special offer to Wellington City Council ratepayers. www.qv.co.nz [2006] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, photomechanical prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 15 October 2007

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-098

Description: Shows a man being hypnotised by a television set. It tells him "You are getting sleepy... you are now completely apathetic... you will not vote... you will pay higher rates next year... you will whinge about it... you will repeat all this in 3 years". Refers to the Local body elections. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - MONDAY CARTOON 15 Oct A 14 cartoon Pls correct & send to GNZHARTPIX [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 300 x 420mm

Date: 22 June 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-114

Description: Shows a man sitting in his shed in the backyard playing with his model train set. Above the door hangs a sign "Dad's shed bugger off" and one side of the shed is being propped up by two pieces of wood. His wife stands outside and compares her husband's shed with Council buildings. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 2306A8CARTOON 157.2 x 129.5mm Pls correect & send to MediaGrid, GNZHARTPIX [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).

Date: ca 1960s-2020

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Bank of New Zealand; Boys' Brigade in New Zealand Inc; Hastings District (N.Z.). District Council; New Zealand Police; NZ Transport Agency; Social Credit (Political party : N.Z.); Victoria University of Wellington; Yates New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-OCTOBER-2020/2

Description: Comprises: McDonalds Monopoly chip packet, dated verso September 2020; Bank of New Zealand envelope, dated verso 1970s; Yates beetroot seed packet, circa 2013; Pix Rite-Change conversion wheel, used to convert shillings and pence to dollars and cents when New Zealand switched to decimal currency in 1967; Invitation for Brian Van Rooyen to attend dinner with then-Prime Minister Helen Clark at Premier House for the 2005 British and Irish Lions Tour of New Zealand; A Boys' Brigade Jubilee Trek sticker, dated 23 March 1985; A Sanyo Rally of New Zealand sticker, dated 25-28 June 1983; A booklet issued by the New Zealand Police titled "What you need to know about the new firearms laws", circa 1993; A sex and relationships pamphlet issued by Victoria University of Wellington, which primarily discusses consent and sexual harassment, date unknown; A COVID-19 flyer regarding Hastings District Council rates and annual plan, dated April 2020; A pamphlet campaigning to save Newlands supermarket, dated 1995; A Social Credit Party pamphlet, dated verso 2020; A Firstlight Broadcasting Network pamphlet relating to The Great Controversy, circa 2020; A Jehovah's Witness pamphlet, circa 2020; A Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency flyer titled "COVID-19 impacts on expiry dates and fees", circa 2020. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 15 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 1981

From: Various cartoonists :Four cartoons by Nevile Lodge and one by Eric Heath on the 1981 South African Rugby Tour.

Reference: A-349-079

Description: Shows two city council workers, both sporting black eyes and bandaged heads, looking on as their colleagues are also being assaulted across the counter by irate 'pro-tour ratepayers' at the council offices Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Nevile Lodge 81 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, Chinese white and letratone, 265 x 330 mm on sheet 320 x 410 mm

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[25 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in September and October, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-250

Description: Cartoon of four panels, shows a man with shackled to weights on his ankles. One is labelled Games and one is labelled Rates. The weights turn into dumbells which he must lift, while they are still chained to his ankles. Other Titles - September Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 175 x 263 mm.

Date: 1883, 1885

From: Havelock North Road Board : Records

Reference: fMS-Papers-0218-06A

Description: Havelock North Road District valuation rolls for rates Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1886, 1889

From: Havelock North Road Board : Records

Reference: MSI-Papers-0218-6B

Description: Havelock North Road District valuation rolls for rates Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2014

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0029563

Description: Shows the ratepayer as "The reliable old Punching bag' as a boxer representing DCC ineptitude, unwise investing, fraud, Stadium and Chinese garden. Refers to the Dunedin City Council ratepayer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).