Public works - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 1963

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: MSY-8449

Description: Volume 2 contains the continuation of hearing evidence and submissions from the 1963 Commission of Inquiry, into the proposed transmission of electricity from the New Zealand Electricity Department's Otahuhu to Henderson substations. Title transcribed from report cover. Quantity: 1 volume(s) continues pagination from volume 1: pages 248-285.. Physical Description: Bound volume report, 238 pages, 22 x 35 cm.

Date: 1963

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: MSY-8448

Description: Volume 1 contains hearing evidence and submissions from the 1963 Commission of Inquiry, into the proposed transmission of electricity from the New Zealand Electricity Department's Otahuhu to Henderson substations Title transcribed from report cover. Quantity: 1 volume(s) Includes maps, reprints and submissions. Physical Description: Bound volume report, 247 pages, 22 x 35 cm.

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: 1842 - 1965

Reference: MapColl-832.12fba/1842-1968/Acc.11019-37

Description: Dyeline copies of maps to accompany Bloomfield, G.T. 'Local government areas in the Auckland areas in the Auckland region' (Auckland. University of Auckland, 1968). Contents: Auckland region, major county boundary changes 1876-1965, County of Eden 1842-1956, Hundreds of Eden county 1848, Borough of Aucklnad 1851, Eden county 1876-1956, Local government areas in Eden county 1876-1968, City of Auckland; ward boundaries 1878-1903. Regional planning authorities 1946-1965, Defunct boroughs and town districts, Cities and boroughs in Auckland urban area 1965, County towns in Auckland urban area 1965. Boroughs, major changes 1965-1966, Manukau City 1965, Papakura Borough 1966, Ridings and highway districts of Eden county 1876, Drainage boards in Auckland urban area, Auckland Education Board, Auckland Hospital Board, Fire boards in Auckland, Auckland Harbour Board, electric power boards, Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council 1934-1946, milk districts 1946-1968, Auckland Transport Board 1928-1964. Quantity: 19 map(s). Physical Description: Dyeline copies, linen backed, various scales, 67 x 52 cm (or smaller).

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: 2008

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

Reference: DCDL-0005794

Description: Shows the word 'GOVT' but the 'V' has dropped out of the word and is about to pierce an aeroplane below which represents 'Auckland Airport shares'. Refers to the long-lasting struggle over whether Auckland Airport shares should be sold to a Canadian pension fund. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).