Automobiles - Taxation

Date: 1988

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-363-053/075

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 23 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1953 - 1954

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-633-001/033

Description: New Zealand topics include advocation of a state lottery, the rising cost of living, increased car licence fees, sales tax, mortgage rates, petrol prices, the 1953 visit by Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Philip, electioneering for the 1954 election, home brew in prisons, inflation, water supply disputes and shortages in Auckland, the future of the wine industry, geothermal power, traffic transgressions, advertising on parking meters, the Russian space programme and an observatory in Auckland and attitudes to public works in Auckland such as the harbour bridge and drainage. International topics include Australian lotteries, Winston Churchill keeping 'communist hands off' British Guiana, political troubles in Trieste and East Germany, relations between the Untied States and the USSR, radioactive pollution around Bikini Atoll, the TATTS talks and atomic bomb threats, the arrival of the yacht 'Hemskerk' in Sydney, the sale of Russian Embassy cars in Canberra and Soviet Russia's space programme. Quantity: 33 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 photocopies. Image sizes 178 x 228 mm approx.

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.

Date: 1960

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-133-066

Description: Teasing friend tells upset car owner whose car has disappeared from outside the motor vehicle relicensing office (presumably having being towed away for not having a current licence) that at least he still has the pen he pinched from the vehicle relicensing office as compensation. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and letratone, 280 x 250 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1964

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-133-294

Description: A second hand car salesman is showing a beaten up car labelled 'This year's model - has done only 10,000 miles - still as good as new - one thousand, two hundred and fifty pounds' to a bemused customer. To the left of the cartoon is a sign 'New Car Sales - only holders of overseas funds need bother to enter'. The lack of availablity of new cars had pushed up the price of second hand cars to new car levels. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil 280 x 380 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]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-196

Description: Several cars, just imported from Australia, are lined up on the wharf, with a driver hunched over the wheel in one of them. Behind him one customs officer tells another that he has 'fixed him' by telling him if he wants to import the car duty free he would have to stay in New Zealand - which is not seen as attractive proposition to an Australian. A ship is tied up at the wharf behind them. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil 280 x 380 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1933

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to petrol, motor fuels, petroleum industry, drilling]

By: New Zealand Automobile Association; Sheat, William Alfred, 1899-1982

Reference: Eph-B-PETROL-1933-01

Description: Pamphlet protesting about the petrol tax levied by the "George & Gordon Garage" (ie the government of George Forbes and Gordon Coates). The pamphlet protests that motor cars are taxed as luxury items, with customs duty being about half the cost of the imported vehicle (A diagrammatic picture of a Ford illustrates this). A picture of a bank note on the front cover shows that 3/4 of petrol tax goes for national purposes, leaving only 25% for the upkeep of roads. The back cover shows that the petrol tax is three times the landed cost of a shipment of petrol. Dated by the model of car (Ford 8), and by the reference to the "George & Gordon Garage" - the government of George Forbes and Gordon Coates. The Evening post of 7 March 1933, page 7 reports: The part played by the automobile clubs of New Zealand in obtaining from the Government a concession of a penny per gallon in petrol tax was referred to at last night's meeting of the executiveof the Wellington Automobile Club. The chairman of the executive, Mr. E. A. Batt, said he did not think motorists as a whole realised the savings that were being effected for them by the automobile clubs". Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on folded pamphlet. Physical Description: Letterpress on folded sheet, 344 x 217 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Sheat in 2005, from the collection of William Alfred Sheat.

Date: 1956

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-107

Description: The first scene shows a man sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper with the headline "Electricity may cost more". The next scene shows him diving down the road and passing a boy who is selling newspapers. The headline refers to an extra tax on motorists to assist plans to improve the transport system. In the third scene shows him pulling up outside a second hand shop which has a lantern and wood stove for sale in the window. The shop keeper is sweeping outside the doorway. In the final scene the stove and lantern have been replaced with the car and there is a notice on the bonnet which says "One owner". Refers to the increase in electricity prices and motorist taxes. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). 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]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-155

Description: A happy pair of parents have bought their young son a pedal car. The father holds a newspaper headlined: 'Sales tax off pedal cars'. In the top left of the cartoon a would-be buyer looks forlornly at the billboard in a car dealer's window which reads:'Yours! Only overseas funds and trade-in required'. The increase in car imports had not made a noticeable difference to the ability of the general public to purchase motor vehicles and Lodge suggests that pedal cars are Mr Shelton's idea of compensation. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil 250 x 280 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2013

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025464

Description: Owner of a 'Collectables' junk shop offers for sale a bicycle bearing the placard 'Beat the petrol price rise. Go to work on a bike'. A passing potential customer says 'No'. Despite the rising costs of ownership and fuel during 2013, many still preferred to use cars rather than find other cheaper means of transport. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).