Customs administration - Officials and employees

Date: Apr - May 1984

By: New Zealand Oral History Archive; New Zealand. Customs Department; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-

Reference: OHColl-0101

Description: Quantity: 74 C60 cassette(s). 22 printed abstract(s). 22 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[30 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in May and June, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-210

Description: Cartoon shows the admissions counter at an Auckland hosptial, where an official is interviewing a bandaged patient in a wheel chair. The cartoon implies that conditions in the Auckland Health district are very poor. Other Titles - Department; May Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 173 x 262 mm.

Date: 1972

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; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-243

Description: This cartoon shows a scene at Australian Customs in Sydney. Prime Minister Jack Marshall has been seized by two police officers, one in uniform and one in plain clothes. A customs officer has seized his briefcase and put it in a bucket of water marked 'fire', but a second customs officer is trying to stop him by telling him that the bag contained a bomb protest rather than a bomb. Extended Title - Mr. Marshall arrives in Australia today where he is expected to discuss Australia's reluctance to support protests against French nuclear tests with the Australian P.M. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 318 x 398 mm Provenance: Donation: .

Date: 1988

By: New Zealand. Customs Department; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; New Zealand Oral History Archive

Reference: OHColl-0102

Description: Interviews with K J Campbell, C M Coutts, J D J Fitzgerald, M G Howley, P J McKone and W Wood. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Quantity: 19 C60 cassette(s). 6 printed abstract(s). 19 listening copies donated also, together with accompanying photos. 6 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1970-1999

Reference: Eph-A-CUSTOMS-1900s

Description: Not yet listed Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 2000-2019

By: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand; New Zealand. Ministry for Primary Industries

Reference: Eph-A-CUSTOMS-2000/2019

Description: Comprises ephemera of octavo sizes relating to customs clearances, import duties, quarantine, prohibited imports into New Zealand, from 2000 to 2019. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 17 pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1965

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

Reference: A-310-216

Description: A scene in a customs hall, with a long queue. Spiderwebs have been woven over the luggage, and the men are unshaven. A customs agent is angrily asking a representative of Air New Zealand to 'turn your tickets out'. Suggests that that the normal question is to 'turn your pockets out' Dating: Air New Zealand replaced TEAL in 1965 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 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-133-106

Description: A wharf scene where customs officers are searching men for smuggled transistor radios which are subject to customs duty. Around the corner are three men in a state of consternation as one of them has accidentally swallowed the radio he smuggled into New Zealand inside a sandwich. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil 280 x 255 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1947

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: B-100-036

Description: Shows Walter Nash disembarking from a plane on to the tarmac where two customs officers are waiting for him. He says: "Morning, boys! What have you got to declare?" Walter Nash was Minister of Customs, Minister of Finance and Minister of Stamp Duty at that time. After the second World War, Nash, as prime minister was frequently overseas at meetings about the proposed General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Other Titles - New Zealand herald 4 June 1947 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).

Date: 1977

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; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-135

Description: This cartoon is set in the customs section of the airport. Prime Minister Muldoon is returning from an overseas trip and Brian Talboys is waiting for him outside the door with a welcome back sign. The customs officer is examining Muldoon's empty suitase and the PM is saying that he brought back invisible benefits for NZ Pencil dated 30/11/77 Extended Title - Your duty to your country comes first so pay up! Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 323 x 450 mm

Date: 2008

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0007453

Description: Shows a distraught customs officer with his glasses awry crashing through the screen behind which he was trying to do a body search on a transvestite. He tried to confiscate something unconfiscatable that has led to screams and slaps. Published in Shipping Gazette Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0007974

Description: Shows a woman being marched off at the air terminal by customs officers. Closer to the viewer are two more customs officers. One of them congratulates the other whose great hairy arms almost reach the ground for detecting the three banana plants in the woman's undies. Refers to an incident that actually occurred without perhaps the advantage of ape genes. Published in Shipping Gazette Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2001

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-196

Description: The scene is in an arrivals hall. Passengers are being processed by Customs by being suspended upside down on a conveyor belt so that illegal substances drop out of their clothes onto a lower conveyor belt. A customs officer is calling for larger wheelbarrows as another officer wheels away an overloaded barrow. Other Titles - million Extended Title - Bigger barrows! Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0010917

Description: Shows a very large woman wearing a bathrobe and carrying a bathbrush who rushes through customs. One of the customs' officers laughs because he has been told that she was in the bathtub when she remembered her flight but the other officer is doubtful. Refers to a woman smuggler who was arrested in Tajikstan with 33 bathrobes each of which had buttons made of heroine. The woman from the Philippines had up to 3 k of heroine stuffed into 758 buttons that were stitched onto 33 bathrobes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1946

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: J-0125-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Members of the 22nd Battalion were among the first New Zealanders to take up their occupational duties in Japan. They took over control of the repatriation centre at Senzaki from American troops 24 hours after they disembarked at Kure. The photograph shows a New Zealand soldier supervising the checking of a Korean's money by a Japanese customs official. The repatriates are allowed to take away 1000 yens." Photograph taken by an army photographer. Identified from print of this negative at PA1-q-305-0122. Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2004

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013014

Description: Shows Chinese customs officials going through a box of Zespri kiwifruit. One of the customs officials complains that they are selling pirated copies of their own fruit the Chinese gooseberry. Refers to free trade with China and also the export of Kiwifruit to China, when the fruit is native to the country. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 19 Mar 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-12647-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 2007

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0003489

Description: A female customs officer looks round in surprise at an open parcel from which two garden gnomes rise and move around. From the base of one gnome and the mouth of another protrude lizard tails. Refers to Customs and Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service officers who busted a reptile racket in which snakes and lizards were concealed in the hollow spaces of pottery figurines and garden gnomes. Published in the New Zealand Shipping gazette Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0006812

Description: Shows several Melbourne customs officials engaged in searching the luggage of a man arriving from Bangkok who is being held by another official. The two officials who can be seen searching a bag have smoke pouring out of their heads and feet and their faces and arms are black. A third official has just gone up in smoke and whizzed out of sight. The official writing the report asks him if he found a stun gun too. Refers to such an incident, less exaggerated that actually happened, of interest because there is debate about the use of stun guns by New Zealand police currently. Published in Shipping Gazette Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0001692

Description: The scene is the reception desk in Customs. On the front of the desk is a large sign saying, 'Welcome to New Zealand'. A man surrounded by his suitcases bares his not insubstantial belly to show the horrified female customs' officer a long scar. She tells him that it is SARS not scars she is asking about. Reference to the SARS epidemic scare. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).