Cleaning personnel

Date: [ca 1970s-1985]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Preston, Gaylene Mary, 1947-

Reference: PAColl-10045-3

Description: Photographs (single prints and contact sheets) relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, particularly the Cleaners' Union, ca 1975-1985. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Hazel Armstrong, Gaylene Preston, and the Evening Post newspaper. Identified figures include: Gavin Cummings, Alex Weir, Hilary Brown, Verna Sutherland, Joy Molnar, Jim Anderton, Pat Kelly, Peter Cranney, Don Swan, Danny Wikiera, Cliff Medland, Gaylene Preston, Hazel Armstrong, Victor Batista, Kathleen Kerr, Gwenda Jenkins, Bob Laycock, Des Clarke, Ian [Hoggets?], and Margaret Wilson. Events, disputes, campaigns, and protests covered include: British Petroleum and Crothalls and Company industrial action, Rutherford House dispute, Waiouru Military Camp picket, Kindergarten Cleaners' dispute, images relating to the dispute around the sacking of Spotswood College caretaker Doug Mumm, Wanganui Boys College equal pay protest, Central Institute of Technology Cleaners dispute (including 1979 march on Parliament), the `Reinstate Tina' protest, and cleaners stopwork meeting at Trades Hall (1978) as well as an Annual General Meeting and a conference in Auckland. Miscellaneous images include cleaners and caretakers in their workplaces, including employees at Dunlops Tyres, British Petroleum House, and a number of schools (Woodhalten School (Wainuiomata), and Porirua College). Also a cutting of Pat Kelly speaking to anti-Vietnam War protest at Parliament. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records.

Date: [ca 1975-1985]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Preston, Gaylene Mary, 1947-

Reference: PAColl-10045-4

Description: Photographs relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, ca 1980-2008. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Gaylene Preston, and the Evening Post newspaper. - Contains contact sheets relating to the New Zealand Labour Party Conference in 1983. Identified figures include: Stan Rodger, Michael Bassett, Helen Clark, Margaret Wilson, Helene Ritchie, David Caygill, David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Northy, Trevor de Cleene, Eddie Isbey, Frank O'Flynn, Dover Samuels, Jim Knox, Roger Douglas, Margaret Sheilds, Margaret Austin, and [Mike Williams?]. The series also features: Lange and Palmer speaking at the Federation of Labour conference in 1984; Ormond Wilson, photographed in his home on Hill Street ca 1983; and Fran Wilde and Jim Kebbell in a yacht protesting the visit of the USS Truxtun to Wellington as well as portraits of Tala [Clerens?]. One contact sheet also includes an image of baby Kathleen Kerr, daughter of union photographer Bob Kerr. - Includes prints of the Cleaners' Union dispute with Crothall and Company and British Petroleum. These feature the union picket at B P House, Wellington, with makeshift sleeping arrangements, placards, cooking, and protestors. Also contains a contact sheet with portraits of an unidentified man, B P House, and information sheets being handed out by protestors. - Youth pay rate campaign images feature: young protestors, some in school uniform, at Parliament with placards and costumes as well as an unidentified young speaker and Pat Kelly addressing the crowd; teenage Woolworth's workers photographed at their place of work; and a youth picket outside McDonalds. Also contains a contact sheet with some of the images detailed above, but also further portraits. - Contains series of images of caretaker Ernie Abbott's funeral. These feature: the Holden Kingswood hearse and pallbearers (including Pat Kelly and Ken Douglas) leading the funeral cortege through the streets of Wellington between Trades Hall and the Town Hall; and the funeral ceremony at the Town Hall, including mourners, pallbearers, and eulogies being delivered. Also contains a contact sheet of portraits of Abbott (and others of an unidentified woman) taken for the Cleaners' Union in the early eighties, and images of Trades Hall after the bombing that killed Abbott. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records - To Ephemera Collection - four negative cases for printing orders (one glacine, three paper) at Eph-A-PHOTO-1970s.

Date: 1984

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Cheerful sketches. Rewi Alley, Peking. Oct[ober] 22, 1984. [Sketchbook].

Reference: E-593-027

Description: Shows a man sweeling the street, a man carrying a bamboo birdcage contaning a bird; and a man standing beside a table with an abacus on it. Other Titles - Beijing Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour sketch in hard-cover black book, 220 x 143 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 2000.

Date: 1980

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-707

Description: The scene is a corridor in the Beehive where two caretakers are doing the cleaning. The door of a lift is open and a man and a woman are standing in the lift. They are looking for the government's caretaker minister but the cleaners are adamant that there are no ministers capable of becoming caretakers. Extended Title - Inquiries by the "Post" reveal that the government has gone on holiday leaving New Zealand without a "caretaker" minister Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 16 November 1999

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1999/3476-F

Description: Hinetemoa Kahu at an exhibition of photographs on cleaners in which she features. Photographed Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson 11 November 1999. Publication note - published in the Evening Post newspaper, 16 November 1999 Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope The exhibition was held at the Hutt Valley Community Arts Far Site Gallery, Petone. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 6 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negatives, 35mm

Date: 1977

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-183-039

Description: Shows what is probably the last page of the 'Spring frolic' programme, with a cleaner standing holding a broom amidst a pile of debris, which includes musical notes, broken instruments, bottles and the conductor lying in the rubbish bin. At bottom right is a lion dressed as a conductor, with a music stand bearing a sign saying 'The end'. The concert and drawings for the accompanying programme are based on the Hoffnung Music Festival Concerts. Gerard Hoffnung (1925-1959) was a cartoonist and gifted musician who in 1956 started the Hoffnung Music Festivals, an original brand of symphonic caricature that received international acclaim Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Lion panel green [in pencil]; Recto - bottom left - Eric Heath [artist's signature] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing, 38 x 23 mm on card 457 x 363 mm Provenance: Donation: Jennifer Zwartz, Wellington, 2011

Date: 1983 - 1985

Reference: Eph-A-LABOUR-1983/1985

Description: Includes ephemera produced by: Auckland Unemployed Workers' Rights Centre CARSIL (Coalition Against Repressive Social & Industrial Legislation) National Distribution Union (N.Z.) New Zealand Bank Officers' Union New Zealand Clerical Workers' Union New Zealand Department of Labour New Zealand Federation of Labour. Wellington District Council. Women's Subcommittee New Zealand Public Service Association New Zealand Seamen's Union New Zealand Workers' Union Otago Clerical Workers' Union Wellington Cleaners' Union (critical of Crothall's Wellington Hotel, Hospital, Restaurant and Related Trades Employees' Industrial Union of Workers Workers' Unemployed Rights Centre (Dunedin) Quantity: 3 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: 1993

By: Hutt Valley Community Arts Council; Shum, Lynette Pauline, 1957-

Reference: Eph-A-LABOUR-1999-01

Description: Pamphlet issued in conjunction with an photographic exhibition about contract cleaners, a collaboration between the the group of cleaners, the service and Food Workers Union, Hutt Valley Community Arts, and Massey University School of Design. The pamphlet features photographs of workers Hagavave Kato Amosa, Olive Harding, Lalopua Sanele, Bill Herbert, Hinetemoa Kahu, Mafoe Eric, Paula Atatagi. It also features a poem "Bread" by Albert Umaga. The photographers are Lynette Shum, Vicky Birkinshaw, John McCormack and David Read. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on sheet 210 x 840 mm, folded to 210 x 140 mm.

Date: 1938

By: New Zealand. Department of Health. Division of School Hygiene

Reference: Eph-C-HEALTH-1938-01

Description: Broadsheet listing the duties and processes to be followed by cleaning staff at schools. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 440 x 285 mm.

Date: 14 February 2006

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-227

Description: Shows a man representing the Air New Zealand Board thanking a cleaner from Bloggs Cleaners for signing on and that his first job will be scrape the airlines reputation off the floor. Refers to the Air NZ engineers strike. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - Leader page cartoon 15 CARTOON 186mm x 133 Pls scan, correct & send to PIXONHAND [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 320 mm

Date: [ca 1976]-1991

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Dominion (Newspaper); Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-

Reference: PAColl-10045-1

Description: Photographs relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, ca 1960-1991. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr and the Evening Post newspaper. Identified figures include Peter Gordon, Pat Kelly, Ken Douglas, Sonia Davies, Victoria Kessing, Sharon Hawke, Barry Tucker, David Thorp, Stuart McCaffey, Joe [Fefania?], Bill Rowling, Noel Harris, Alex Weir, Russ Petersen, Henry [Tetau?], Penny Bright, Tony Allen, Archie Grant, Peter Butler, Peter Dunne, Graeme Clarke, and others. Identified organisations, groups, and companies include the Federation of Labour Women's Sub-Committee, Clerical Union, New Zealand Drivers' Federation, Shop Employees Union, Cleaning Union, the Wairarapa Trades Council, Upper Hutt City Council, Coach Workers' Union, Crothall and Company, Todd & Company and their staff soccer team, Ford New Zealand, and the New Zealand Labour Party. Strikes, disputes, demonstrations, and campaigns covered include: Hotel Workers strike, `Stop the Cuts' march, security officers' dispute, Saturday Shopping campaign, closure of the Johnsonville Tip-Top ice cream factory, New Zealand Samoan's citizen rights demonstration, and a Christchurch rally against Merv Wellington and the Ministry of Education. Miscellaneous images feature unemployed men in Porirua, grafitti regarding job cuts [Seaview, Petone?], the Patea Freezing Works, the Labour Party's election campaign (Wairarapa), and group portraits from the 40 year commemoration of the return to work after the 1951 waterfront lockout (including workers and their wives). There is also some manuscript material relating to this last image, which includes a cover letter, a typescript of the poem `Ban the Bomb' by R J Morris, and a list of waterfront workers' names. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, printed matter Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records.

Date: 1970

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

Reference: B-137-080

Description: Shows four cleaners in aprons and headscarfs (Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall, Brian Talboys and Robert Muldoon) surveying a room strewn with papers (labels include: Strike, Stop Work, Walk Out, Wages-Living Cost Spiral, Beer Price Enquiry, Teachers' Pay crisis, Kaimai Tunnel finding M.O.W. inefficient, Cheese Up, Butter Up, Biscuits Up Up), broken picture of Beautiful New Zealand, overturned chair, spilt beer bottle, and torn wallpaper. These are the issues with which the government is having to deal. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone 226 x 320 mm on sheet 320 x 408 mm.

Date: 1988

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-776

Description: In four cameos a reporter asks Prime Minister and Minister of Education, David Lange, what he intends to do about the school cleaners' strike and the teacher stopwork. David Lange tells him that he sees it as industrial and not educational ans so as Prime Minister he has instructed himself as Minister of Education not to get involved in a demarcation dispute with the Minister of Labour. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 322 x 483 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1944 - 1945

From: Gray, George Duncan Dunbar, b 1906 :A wartime log 1944-1945

Reference: E-275-059

Description: Shows a man with war medals seated on a stool in a toilet room, with a bucket and broom beside him. He wears medals, a peaked cap with the intitials LCC (London City Council?) and a blue uniform jacket, and is thinking dolefully of outdoor pit toilets. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Initials DG Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil drawing on page of notebook, 171 x 122 mm

Date: 1990 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-CLEANING-1990s

Description: Includes pamphlets and fliers for cleaning agencies, cleansers, chemical compounds, dish washing liquids, laundry detergents. Includes advertising for brushes, brooms and mops, and for environmentally friendly cleaning compounds. Includes advertising flyers from: Jobs Unlimited, Electro-Dry (carpet drycleaning) Related material is house at locations: HOUSEHOLD (for electrical appliances), FOOD: Shop (for supermarket cleaning products) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and pamphlets, szies varying beneath 250 mm.

Date: 1988

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-791

Description: Two cleaners stand in the Cabinet Room observing an array of boxing gloves, cricket and baseball bats, truncheons, a knuckle duster and a mere that are stacked in the corner. One of them says that she supposes this equipment will not be needed now that they've had the human relations session on how to discuss things without getting angry with each other. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Letratone, crayon and ink on paper, 320 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[18 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in July and August, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-245

Description: Cartoon shows a window cleaner suspended outside the window of a high building, supported only on a frail platform. His fear is not for the obvious vertical drop. Other Titles - August Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 172 x 260 mm.

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: 1988

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-842

Description: A feisty cleaner tells a fellow cleaner that she thinks they should protest at being used for propaganda purposes and that if 'Mrs Mopp' is not a member of the union, Mr Lange has an industrial problem on his hands. May refer to changes made by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) who adopted a number of different strategic policies to assist unions with survival in the hostile climate of the Rogernomics era. The first in 1988, was the merger of the two union "peak" organizations, the private sector Federation of Labour and the state sector Combined State Unions into the NZCTU. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 photocopy Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1900 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-CLEANING-1900/1989

Description: Includes pamphlets and fliers for cleaning agencies (such as the Victoria Laundry), cleansers, chemical compounds, dish washing liquids (Colgate-Palmolive's "creamy pink lotion Swerl"), Rawleigh's pine oil germicide, laundry detergents. Includes advertising for brushes, brooms and mops, the Ezy-Press issued by Bradley's Electrical Co. Ltd). Includes a blotter from Paramount Pressing & Dry Cleaning Ltd, Ponsonby Road, and Wyndham Street Auckland (2 shops) [1950s?] Also includes a blotter /calendar for October 1956 for the N.Z. Towel Supply, 14 Tory Street, Petone. Related material is house at locations: HOUSEHOLD (for electrical appliances), FOOD: Shop (for supermarket cleaning products) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and pamphlets, szies varying beneath 250 mm.