Poisoning

Date: 2001

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-673-090/112

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Shows the changes within coalition government as a genetic mutation where the Labour Alliance strands are repalaced with the Labour Greens strands. Comment on the plight of the refugee boat people. All Blacks coach John Mitchell calls for more excitement from the All Blacks. Jim Bolger promotes Kiwi Bank to other former world leaders. New Zealand horse Ethereal wins the Melbourne Cup. Helen Clark protects Turiana Turia from opposition accussations of political interference. President Bush attempts to calm and reassure the American people in the face of extreme threats from Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network. John Howard wins another term as Australian Prime Minister on the backs of refugee boat people. Jim Anderton and Bill English look for ways to provide gaurded support for New Zealand SAS involvement in Afghanistan. Shows lions in a zoo with a sign 'Big Cat poisoning Times...' The new rule in Kabul Afghanistan, don't dare NOT to show yourself. Shows a man having his beard removed and a women removing her veil. Both regimes the now deposed Taleban instituted. A bin Laden supporter talks about the perfect weapon they have against the American led attack into Afghanistan. However they have some problems with detonating the nuclear bomb. Factions within the Alliance Party turn on each other and vow to fight to the death. Comment on the increase in alcohol consumption due to the lowering of the drinking age, and expectation that the same thing will happen when cannibis is legalised. Shows the maze of buildings that United States Air Force missiles are trying to penetrate in Afghanistan. The chance of striking a target is pretty low. The Prime Minister is swollowed by a giant snake during a visit to the Amazon. A reporter asks her how the Amazon compares with NZ eco-tourism. Jim Anderton pretends to fire a gatling gun every time the Alliance Party President, Matt McCarten appears on television. Helen Clark arrives home to find the house demolished. Refers to Alliance Party infighting. Shows Jim Anderton and Matt McCarten facing off over the breakfast table. A Black Caps cricket player thanks an African rain-man for helping the team by creating rain which washed out the second test. Jim Anderton reassures everyone that the crisis within the Alliance Party is now over and he and Matt McCarten are now pulling in the same direction. The Alliance boat is now however sinking. New Zealanders make love twice a week on average. A woman comments that it is decidedly average. Afghanistan Alliance soldiers run over Taliban prisoners in an armoured tank. They blame the prisioners for being in the way. Quantity: 23 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 2000 - 2003

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-2000/2019

Description: Includes: 2000: New Zealand Ministry of Health. Poisons around the home. February 2000. Code 1121 2003: Occupational Safety and Health Service. Safe use of ATVs on New Zealand farms; agricultural guidelines. Issued June 2003 (2 copies) Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to around 500 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: 1990-2015

From: Safekids Aotearoa (Collector): Posters and video recordings about child safety. ca 1990-2005

By: Safekids Aotearoa

Reference: Eph-C-SAFETY-Safekids

Description: Includes: ACC: Safety begins at home. A blocked gutter could make you miss our greatest sporting moment ACC: Safety begins at home. Falling down steps ruins more rugby seasons than sprigs to the head ACC: Safety begins at home. Falls from ladders ruin more weddings than stag nights gone wrong ACC: Safety begins at home. A mossy path could stop you seeing the world's best players ACC: Safety begins at home. Pruning hedges ruins more fishing trips than stray fish hooks ACC: Safety begins at home. A spill could stop you being there when our boys make history ACC: Safety begins at home. Stairs could make you miss the best tournamnet this country has ever seen ACC: Safety begins at home. Wet floors ruin more holidays on the Gold Coast than sharks ever will ACC. Safety tips for your trampoline. Bouncing not bumping. The information is from the IPRU fact sheet no. 5: Trampolines ISSN 1172-8388 ACC. 50 [degrees] C is hot enough (Laminated poster) ACC. Wet and cold; first aid for burns. Animal Control Services Limited. Stay safe around dogs. Dog bites can be prevented. For free advice, conact your local Animal Control Office (Laminated poster) Animal Control Services Limited. Stay safe around dogs. If you feel threatened by a dog, stand still, "be like a tree". For free advice, conact your local Animal Control Office Health Promotion Centre, Napier. Hey! What about us? Please don't smoke [pre-1995?] Caustics burn; never store them under the bench [1990s?] (Laminated poster) Change for our Children. Everyone please ... in every place, for every sleep, check that I am safe / NZ College of Midwives, Plunket, New Zealand Government. 2009 Children are curious ... remember Grandmas purse [1990s?] (Laminated poster) Dump old drugs; return them to your pharmacy [1990s] (Laminated poster) Give your old medicines the boot [1990s?] (Laminated poster) Kidsafe Week. Tohu whanau ora, Kidsafe family WOF. Win a family computer [1990-2000?] Hapai Re Hauora Tapui. Hohou te ora [2003?] (2 copies) Is this your medicine cabinet? Spring clean it! [1990s?] (Laminated poster) Karitane Products Society Ltd. Play it safe; don't fence them in ... fence them out! (Laminated poster) Karitane Products Society Ltd. Play it safe; prevention goes before a fall (Laminated poster) Karitane Products Society Ltd. Play it safe; save them with a childproof top (2 copies, one laminated, one unlaminated) Keep your medicine under lock and key [1990s?] (Laminated poster) Never underestimate a child's capabilities; lock medicines away [1990s?] (Laminated poster) NZ Ministry of Consumer Affairs. Kia tūpato ki ngā taputapu tākaro [shows hand grenade] NZ Ministry of Consumer Affairs. Play it safe with toys [shows hand grenade] NZ Ministry of Consumer Affairs. Spot the dangers. How safe is your home? Me pēhea rawa te haumaru o tō kāinga?. May 2001 (2 copies) New Zealand Ministry of Health. Poisons around the home. Revised 2003; reprinted October 2004 (Laminated poster) (2 copies) Safekids Aotearoa. Falls ruin the fun [2014] (2 copies) Safekids Aotearoa. Falls ruin the fun [2015] / Safekids Aotearoa, Starship Foundation, Auckland Council (2 copies) Safekids Campaign [and] Starship Foundation. Take action; be sharp [ca 2014?] Safekids Campaign. Tiakina ā tatou tamariki kei Paihanatia (Laminated poster) Tiakina a tatou tamariki / Ngarimu [1990s?] What kills fleas kills kids. Lock away the dog shampoo [1990s?] (Laminated poster) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on posters, some laminated, sizes up to 450 mm.

Date: 1990-2005

From: Safekids Aotearoa (Collector): Posters and video recordings about child safety. ca 1990-2005

By: Safekids Aotearoa

Reference: Eph-D-SAFETY-Safekids-2

Description: Includes: Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Plants in New Zealand poisonous to people. [Illustrated by] Pat Brooke, 1988. Manaaki Whenua Press. National Poisons Information Centre of New Zealand. Is it poisonous? (2 copies, one of which is laminated) Panadol and Unichem. Make it kidsafe for the grandkids. ... Kidsafe Week 1997 (Laminated poster) Pharmacy Self Care. Five seconds is all it takes! Ask for a child safety cap Pharmacy Self Care. Medicine or lollies; can you tell the difference? Ask for a child safety cap. KidSafe Week, 12th-19th October Safekids Campaign Co-ordinating Agency. Safekids New Zealand. Keep kids safe from poisoning (Laminated poster) Safekids Campaign Co-ordinating Agency. Safekids New Zealand. Protect us from poisons. Manaakitia mai mātou kia kore ai e paihanatia. KidSafe Week. National Poisons Centre 24hr helpline (Laminated poster) Safekids Campaign Co-ordinating Agency. Tiakina ā tātou tamariki kei paihanatia. (Poster includes photograph of Pio Terei) Safekids New Zealand. Put your kid's safety first! Finish, a safer choice Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on posters, some laminated, sizes up to 600 mm.

Date: 1957-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-003

Description: Photographs relating to accidents, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1957 and 2000. Including images of the Rangiatea Anglican Church fire of October 1995, and DIC scaffolding collapse of 1957. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 31 Dec 1891

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: MS-Papers-11546-63

Description: Folder contains the front page of the Pahiatua Star Extra, 31 Dec 1891. Headline reads "The Poisoning Cases". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed material

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-076

Description: Photographs relating to diseases, arranged alphabetically from I to PO, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1988 - 2000

By: Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd; Brooke, Pat A, active 1980s

Reference: Eph-D-BOTANY-1989-01

Description: Shows coloured illustrations of 34 identified plants, with a small description of their appearance and toxic effect. The poster was distributed by the Manaaki Whenua Press. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph 640 x 430 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005.

Date: 1939 - 1942

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning the environment and environmental protection]

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-ENVIRONMENT-1940-01

Description: Flier pays tribute the the efforts of farmer Arthur Kent of Remuera to encourage farmers to diversify their crops. Rye-grass was widespread and full of the ergot fungus, which adversely affected human and animal health, causing paralysis, gangrene, blindness, deformities, insanity, abortions, etc. Dr Williams also recommends reading his own book "Hints on healthy living". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Print on flier, 340 x 150 mm.

Date: 1993

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to women, women's roles, activities, issues, in New Zealand]

By: Slane, Christopher, 1957-

Reference: Eph-A-WOMEN-1993-Murderesses

Description: Each card features a photograph of a New Zealand murderess on one side, and on the other a short biography. The women included are: 1. Minnie Dean, baby-farmer 2. Parker & Hulme, teen killers 3. Margaret Doull, poisoner 4. "Nurse" Kerr, poisoner 5. Phyllis Freeman, poisoner 6. Edna Wilson, strangler 7. Nola Lorimer, matricide Two copies held. Quantity: 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on both sides of 7 different cards, each 110 x 60 mm.

Date: 1977-1978

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-287

Description: Reports from the Forest Service, Wildlife Service, Nature Conservation Council and Department of Agriculture on the use of 1080 to poison possums in forests, including Karioi, Kaingaroa and the Hokonui Hills, and its impact on bird life. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1986

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1986].

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1986-05

Description: Poster advertising a gig by Brothers Gorgonzola and Crawbelly Creepers shows a cartoon sequence: A wife serves her husband's dinner and he feeds bits of it to the dog who appears to be poisoned and falls down. The husband attacks the wife, thinking she has tried to poison him. The dog gets up and laughs mightily at the trick it has played. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print and red felt pen on green paper, 560 x 450 mm.

Date: [1980s]

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: A-478-048

Description: A number of dead kiwis appear strewn along a forest path. A news item line in Heath's handwriting, adhered to the cartoon, reads "Increasing numbers of dead kiwis are being handed in to the Wildlife Service - apparently caused by possum poisoning (small news item)". The cartoon is undated, but the New Zealand Wildlife Service operated between 1973 and 1987, when it became the Department of Conservation. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tipped pen on paper, 282 x 390 mm Provenance: Prior to donation, from the collection of Bruce Andrew Crawley, the donors' brother, who died in 2017. Crawley lived in New Zealand until the 1980s and was a keen member of NZ Forrest and Bird.

Date: 2008

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0007547

Description: Shows a bottle of absinthe beside a text saying 'absinthe makes the heart no longer'. Refers to the near-death of a Southland teenager from drinking absinthe. The text is a play on the phrase 'absence makes the heart grow fonder'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DX-003-108

Description: Past National Party leaders Jenny Shipley, Michelle Boag and Bill English pass the "poison chalice" of "policy" to Don Brash. Refers to the leadership coup in late October 2003, when Brash usurped English as the leader of the National Party. Extended Title - Boag. Policy. Parcel [crossed out Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0001698

Description: Two little men stand outside a huge building. One of them tells the other that he has volunteered to be food taster for leader of the Opposition, Bill English, at his caucus morning teas. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

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

Reference: DX-014-628

Description: A very scarred-looking Viktor Yushchenko sits at a bar, celebrating his win of the controversial presidential election of 2004. The barmans "poison" comment refers to the fact that Yushchenko was poisened with dioxin in September 2004 which, as well as causing serious internal damage, resulted in his face becoming bloated, disfigured and pockmarked. Extended Title - You deserve a drink, Viktor- what's your poison? Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1970

From: Karori Dramatic Society :[Programmes and fliers relating to plays and dramatic performances. 1959-1980].

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-KDS-1970-01-front

Description: Programme front cover shows an illustration of a scene where Cleopatra lies dead in a bed, as soldiers and a nurse gather around. An asp slithers across the floor in the centre foreground, near a basket of apples tipped sideways. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on cover of pamphlet, 193 x 222 mm.