Mainland Products Ltd

Date: 1980 - 1990

By: Wesney, Robert Arnold, 1914-1998

Reference: A-341-083/084

Description: Includes poster designs by the man who featured in the television advertisements for Mainland Cheese in the 1980-1990s. Includes: Hard cheese, mate, if you miss St Hilda's Famous Fair. Sat 9th May 12 pm Cnr The Parade and Humber Street, Island Bay. [1980s?] I.B.B.C. Bowls. A great game, physically, fraternally. The new season is another milestone in the life of the Island Bay Bowling Club ... [1980s]. Quantity: 2 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies (one with felt tip) on sheets, quarto and A4 size. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Noelene Wesney in 1999.

Date: 1980 - 1990

By: Wesney, Robert Arnold, 1914-1998

Reference: A-341-071/082

Description: Includes cartoons on various subjects by the man who featured in the television advertisements for Mainland Cheese in the 1980-1990s. Includes: I declare the "Passing of Wind" ceremony open. (David Lange and Geoffrey Palmer outside the Beehive. 1980s). (Accompanied by a poem "It's an ill wind that nobody blows good") On the open road. (A holidaying family drive wedged between two trucks on a dusty fumey road. 1980s?) (Title from accompanying poem). Surely it can't be all dark in the lightness. (A couple embraces, the man wondering if kissing causes cancer - title and interpretation from accompanying poem). Wellington Hospital halving its facilities. "Now for our next trick we will cut the patient in half and thus, eventually, halve the number of patients" / Wes. "Good question, eh!" - "Spot on mate - just repeat - a little louder please" (An oyster talks and an oystercatcher replies - may relate to Kiwis travelling abroad - see accompanying poem "The world is our oyster" typed under "Wynchushudup" and housed with A-341-075) "Wynchushudup, I'm doin' momework". (A schoolboy works at a hand-held calculator, while listening to the radio and watching television - the accompanying poem comments on the bad diction of children). The drummer in a Salvation Army band parade breaks his drum through overzealous drumming. (Accompanied by poem "Me thinks the man protesthe"). The powers that WOT! (A cleaning lady mops the floor around a conference table). [The not so Rarebit]. "Tell him we were only playing leapfrog" (Accompanied by poem "The not so rarebit" concerning the rabbit population problem. A farmer with a gun surprises rabbits "being overly conjugal"). "I've cleaned a lot of windows in my time ... the bloke who brings in Lotto must be blotto!" / Roy Wes. [ca 1987]. (plus photocopy of same) [Sketch of elderly people socialising, including a self-portrait]. Just a word from The Olde Man, Thanks [Roy Wesney as the character from the Mainland Cheese advertisement. 1980s?] Quantity: 12 original cartoon(s) plus photocopy of one of them. Physical Description: Ink and crayon on sheets, sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Noelene Wesney in 1999.

Date: 1997 - 1998

By: Kiwi Co-operative Dairies

Reference: Eph-B-DAIRY-Butter-Wrappers-1998

Description: For domestic market, includes Mainland foil wrapper for 10 gram pack, one paper wrapper for 250 gram pack, 2 paper wrappers for 500 gram packs, and one No Frills wrapper for 500 gram pack. For export market, also includes one foil wrapper for "Doyrushka" (Milkmaid) butter to Russia, 3 Anchor and 2 Fern foil wrappers for 7 and 10 gram packs; one paper and one foil Fernleaf wrappers for 1/4 lb packs; one paper and 4 foil wrappers for Anchor 1/4 lb packs; one paper Fernleaf wrapper for 200 gram pack and one for 1/2 lb pack; two Fern foil wrappers for 1/2 lb packs; four foil wrappers for Anchor 1/2 lb packs; one plastic wrapper for Anchor 1.5 kg pack; two plastic wrappers for Fern 5 kg packs; and one plastic wrapper for Anchor 5 kg pack. Quantity: 32 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (butter wrappers). Physical Description: Photolithographs on paper, plastic and foil, sizes varying.

Date: 2013

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0026393

Description: Cartoon shows a man holding a newspaper and asking a woman which name she prefers for the South Island. The woman replies, "How about Mainland?", referencing the Dunedin-based cheese company of the same name. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1981 - [ca 2000s]

From: Norton, Anthony, 1959-: Collection

By: Mainland Products Ltd

Reference: MSD12-0808

Description: An advertisement for Mainland Cheese in the form of a compilation album called Grated Hits featuring fictitious artists such as Mild Davis and Robert Parmesan. The advertisement has been glued over the centre label of a copy of the 1981 Foreigner 12” album '4'. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 12" disc(s). Physical Description: Vinyl disc with printed label and cover. Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.