Cracknell, Vernon Francis, 1912-1989

Date: 1954 - 1957

By: Northern news (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-NZ-SOCIAL-CREDIT-1950s-01

Description: Text only, in bold capital letters, black on white. Vernon Cracknell's name is underlined. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Relief print on poster, 457 x 578 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Vernon Cracknell, deposited in 1996.

Date: 1969 - 01 Jan 1969

From: Election Preview 1969. Interviews with political leaders.

By: Cracknell, Vernon Francis, 1912-1989

Reference: OHInt-0031/2

Description: Interview with Vernon Cracknell concerning his party's platform for the 1969 General Election. Used as the basis of an article published in the New Zealand Listener on either the 3, 17 or 31 October 1969. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - John Roberts Interviewer(s) - Robert Chapman Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000266 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1969

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-903

Description: Vernon Cracknell appears on TV in an empty lounge; outside the large picture window, the family is watching its fireworks display in the back yard. A comment from him indicates that he is expecting other Social Credit candidates to be returned to Parliament in the election - It gets rather lonely holding a caucus meeting by yourself. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, Chinese white, crayon and pencil, 318 x 407 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [1954-1979]

By: Cracknell, Vernon Francis, 1912-1989

Reference: 96-075

Description: Comprises Cracknell's correspondence with constituents, branches, followers and disbelievers, campaign and election material, some minutes and meetings records, and newspaper clippings, especially book reviews and articles on economics. Many of the letters have enclosures such as minutes, newspaper clippings and circulars. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - The Library has many collections relating to Social Credit Quantity: 3 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Electoral poster for Vern Cracknell, calendars with social Credit message, three circulars re voting Social Credit - To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Vern Cracknell electioneering.

Date: 1969

By: New Zealand Democratic Party

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-SOCIAL-CREDIT-1969

Description: Includes pamphlets and brochures outlining the philosophy and beliefs of the League, with material relating to the following individuals: Adcock (Hurunui) Donald R P Bethune (Hamilton West). This is simply a business card for him as a representative of the firm of John Wyeth & Brother (N.Z.) Ltd Graeme Constable (Hutt) Vernon F Cracknell (Leader) C E Cullen (Riccarton) James Stewart Fountain (St Albans) Malcolm James (Hobson) Joe Pounsford (unknown electorate) Stan the Man! (Christchurch electorate?) John Vincent (Porirua) Whitmill (Island Bay) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on fliers and pamphlets, sizes varying below 240 mm.

Date: 1966

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-471

Description: A group of people look at three men with masks (Holyoake, Kirk and Cracknell) as they push guys (November 5) in carts. They are labelled National, Labour and Social Credit manifestos, and the party leaders all hold tins labelled Vote, for donations. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, black and yellow letratone and pencil, 289 x 390 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1966

From: New Zealand Social Credit Political League: [Fliers, brochures and pamphlets for New Zealand Social Credit Party and its members and political candidates. 1930-1969]

Reference: Eph-B-NZ-SOCIAL-CREDIT-1966-01

Description: Booklet issued prior to the 1966 general election outlines the beliefs and policies of the Social Credit Party. It shows photographs of leader Vernon Cracknell, League leader Frank Needham, T K Weal (education policy), policy committee chairman T A Greenwood, deputy-leader J B O'Brien, as well as showing photographs of 32 Social Credit candidates. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 266 x 204 mm.

Date: 1969

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-397

Description: A single scene shows the three major contenders for the 1969 election, Holyoake (National), Kirk (Labour) and Cracknell (Social Credit), as astronauts competing in the space race (successful poll at coming elections). Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil, 320 x 405 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1930-1955

From: Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard, 1904-1957 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1128-098

Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes letter from A E, New York, with Pamela Travers' address; and letters from Bryce, Lower Hutt; Burton of Epsom, Auckland; Grace writing from Huntly House, Dunedin, Ranfurly, Riverton, and the University Library (1950s); Lincoln of Titirangi, 1954; [?] Jock Gillesbie, NZBC (1954); Irene of Hawera (1951) and also letter from Irene to Isabella; Archie of London (1950s); Rhoda E [?] McCricken, Mt Albert (1951); [?] Peggy Youland, Wellington; M B of Remuera; Eryl [?] Calt, Remuera (1952); [?] N Kealy, Auckland; [?] T A Farrow, Mt Eden (1951). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1966

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-531

Description: The Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake, appearing as a traffic officer, walks towards the car, labelled NZ, with a cheery wave and swinging the car key. Sitting in the car looking anxiously at him are Norman Kirk and Vernon Cracknell, along with ordinary New Zealanders, all saying, 'Don't go too fast! Watch where you're going!' etc. The signpost says,'To?' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, and pencil, 297 x 388 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1963

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-260

Description: Shows a referee trying to hold four boxers apart. The boxers are Arnold Nordmeyer, Labour, Keith Holyoake, National, Vernon Cracknell, Social Credit and a Liberal candidate. Refers to the 1963 general election. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on paper, 465 x 380 mm.

Date: 1966

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-443

Description: An increased Social Credit vote leads the Prime Minister to describe it as a protest vote against both Labour and National. A Pied Piper (Vernon Cracknell, MP for Hobson) playing a pipe labelled Socred leads people out of two houses with Norman Kirk and Keith Holyoake looking out of respective windows. A variation on Browning's poem is also included - 'and out of the houses the voters came tumbling'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, black and yellow letratone and pencil, 342 x 450 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1966

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-384

Description: Continuing an earlier comic strip format, where the spaceship Long White Cloud is in orbit, skippered by Captain Kiwi Keith (Prime Minister Keith Holyoake), the imminent election makes the government nervous. Co-pilot John Marshall (Deputy Prime Minister) describes the outlook as a bit murky, as control of the target vehicle (the economy) is unpredictable and hazardous. There are also plots to take over the controls (Labour's Norman Kirk and Social Credit's Vernon Cracknell). After splashing down in the sea, they await the helicopter (the vote) to see who will skipper the next spaceship, N.Z. '66-'69. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil, 370 x 523 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1966

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-497

Description: The single scene illustrates one of the ways in which coverage of the election could be presented. The chairman of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation has said that there are different views on how best to use the time available. The interior of a television studio has been made into a boxing ring; there are seconds labelled Norm and Socred and a cameraman. The clapper board says the programme title is 'Political hullabaloo for Clicketty Click'. The producer welcomes the contestants who peer in anxiously from the doorway - Keith Holyoake, Norman Kirk and Vernon Cracknell. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, letratone and pencil, 285 x 387 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1968

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-699

Description: A clipping notes that the Government plans to increase warrant of fitness requirements. In a single scene, there are 3 garage workshops, National, Labour and Social Credit. A car marked government, NZ1968, appears to be in disrepair; Holyoake is at the wheel and Muldoon is the mechanic who says it is structurally sound. The passengers wonder about their safety, and Norman Kirk, the Labour garage mechanic says that the steering is sloppy, it could crash at any time. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, crayon and pencil, 295 x 375 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1968

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-695

Description: Five scenes show interchanges between the housewife adviser and Mr Muldoon. A clipping has the suggestion made by the Social Credit leader, Vernon Cracknell, that housewives balance their family accounts better than the government. The first suggestion is using leftovers, to which Muldoon replies there are never any. The next is to raid the children's money boxes - Pinch the child allowance? Political suicide! The next is to borrow from neigbours and forget to pay it back - No show! The next is someone to get money out of whenever you're short, to which he replies, The I.M.F.? No, she says, a husband. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, letratone and pencil, 311 x 438 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1930 - 1969

By: New Zealand Democratic Party

Reference: Eph-B-NZ-SOCIAL-CREDIT-1930/1969

Description: Includes pamphlets and brochures outlining the philosophy and beliefs of the League, with material relating to the following individuals: Leslie Adams (Onehunga, 1955) Mr A W Barwood (Waitaki, 1962) Vernon F Cracknell (1966) Walter H Crispin (Mt Albert, 1954) Charles E Cullen (1965) Wilfrid Barry Owen (1954) "Yaffle" (1940) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on fliers and pamphlets, sizes varying below 330 mm. Provenance: Some items donated in 2017 by Ri Weal, from the collection of her father Tom Weal.

Date: 1960

Reference: PAColl-5057

Description: Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s) comprising 11 images.

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-232

Description: There are two parts to the cartoon. In the top part Murray Halberg, Kerry Williams and Gerald Hack reach the finishing line in a race and in the lower part are the heads of Walter Nash, Jack Holyoake and Vernon Cracknell, Labour, National and Social Credit respectively. They were the leaders of the three parties contesting the 1960 general election. The cartoon is a game in which the head of the winner of the election is to be superimposed over the face of the winner in the race and the same for second and third place. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on thin card, 560 x 380 mm.

Date: 1960 - 1968

By: New Zealand Democratic Party

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-SOCIAL-CREDIT-1960/1968

Description: Includes pamphlets and brochures outlining the philosophy and beliefs of the League. Includes: "Focus on youth; a concept in three forms - youth, politics, & jazz. Concert Chamber, 19 January [1968] (With the Pinewoods folk trio, George Bryant aged 30, Vern Cracknell, the Ron Smith Trio, John O'Brien, Julienne Dickey, the Killing Floor). Includes pamphlets from the following politicians: Vernon Cracknell C E Cullen Dr Donald Milne (Hutt) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on fliers and pamphlets, sizes varying below 240 mm.