Vegetables - Prices

Date: 2010

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-023

Description: Comprises material concerning the Green Party growers survey. Includes survey questions and answers, handwritten notes, emails and articles responding to release of the growers survey results. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015685

Description: A Labour politician tells a small audience that if they are voted into power in the 2011 election they will axe GST on healthy fresh fruit and vegetables. A man in the audience wonders why GST should not also be axed on healthy running shoes, sardines, laxatives and gardening equipment. Refers to the raising of GST from 12.5% to 15% from 1st October 2010. Labour has said that if they are voted into power in the 2011 election they will axe GST on fresh fruit and vegetables. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014764

Description: The cartoon shows a barcode with the words 'Supermarkets' above it; the 'ets' at the end of the word has been crossed through to be replaced with 'ups'. The words 'Code of conduct' appear behind the barcode with the word 'bar' inserted in front of them. 'Sue-per Watchdog' (Sue Kedgley) watches from the sideline. MP Sue Kedgley sparked a controversy over vegetable and fruit prices when she said a survey found supermarkets were marking up produce by up to 500 per cent while growers struggled to survive on the prices they were being paid by the two big chains. She has called for an investigation and suggested a code of conduct and an independent watchdog for supermarkets. The 'ETS' (Emissions Trading scheme) refers to the suggestion that prices have risen in part in response to the Introduction of ETS at the beginning of July which required a taxation to offset carbon emissions. A second cartoon on this theme is at DCDL-0014765 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0014765

Description: The cartoon shows two oranges, a carrot and a banana as the features of a face - each of the fruit and the carrot comment about their increased value as humble fruit and vegetables - this being great for self-esteem - but that Greens' woman now wants to take it all away with a code of conduct. MP Sue Kedgley sparked a controversy over vegetable and fruit prices when she said a survey found supermarkets were marking up produce by up to 500 per cent while growers struggled to survive on the prices they were being paid by the two big chains. She has called for an investigation and suggested a code of conduct and an independent watchdog for supermarkets. The 'ETS' (Emissions Trading scheme) refers to the suggestion that prices have risen in part in response to the Introduction of ETS at the beginning of July which required a taxation to offset carbon emissions. A second cartoon on a similar theme is at DCDL-0014764 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017652

Description: A woman clears up her fruit and vege stall after selling out of everything. A shopper going into the supermarket complains about having to pay &6.95 for a kilogram of carrots when the stall owner was charging only 99 cents. The supermarket employee promises the woman that he will charge only 99 cents when he has sold out. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014769

Description: The cartoon shows a woman pushing her supermarket trolley; her head spins as she reads 'Broccoli 2 for a mortgage' and sees 'short term finance', 'loan application forms' and 'Lay-by terms' being offered beside the vegetables. The fruit and vegetable area in the supermarket is called 'Fruit & Gouge'; a second version shows the fruit and vegetable area in the supermarket described as 'Fruit & Veg'. Refers to Green Party MP Sue Kedgley's calls for a negotiated supermarket code of conduct to ensure growers received and consumers paid a fair price for their fresh fruit and vegetables. The Green Party alleges that supermarkets were marking up fresh fruit and vegetables by as much as 500 per cent, while growers were being forced to sell their produce for less than it cost to produce. Unfair marking up is referred to as 'gouging'. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015732

Description: A couple are working in their garden growing fresh vegetables and fruit. The man comments that leader of the Labour opposition Phil Goff has said that if he is voted in in the 2011 election he will remove GST from fresh fruit and vegetables but the woman replies that she doesn't think they should give up growing their own any time soon. Refers to the rise in GST from 12.5% to 15% on 1st October which in spite of tax cuts makes food bills for those on small or fixed incomes more expensive. Phil Goff has vowed to remove GST from fresh fruit and vegetables if Labour wins the 2011 election which at the moment seems an unlikely prospect. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015736

Description: Shows leader of the Labour opposition Phil Goff with vegetables growing all over him. Text reads 'Labour to axe GST on fruit and veggies?...' Someone comments that 'poor Phil has been behind so long that he is starting to vegetate'. Refers to the rise in GST from 12.5% to 15% on 1st October which in spite of tax cuts makes food bills for those on small or fixed incomes more expensive. Phil Goff has vowed to remove GST from fresh fruit and vegetables if Labour wins the 2011 election which at the moment seems an unlikely prospect. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020075

Description: A man reads in a newspaper report that food prices are going up and is not bothered until he reads that beer prices are rising also. Context: DB Breweries announced plans to increase its beer and cider prices by an average of 3% The cartoon compares the public reation between price increases in food items and beer. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0019541

Description: The cartoon is titled 'Party time'. It shows Prime Minister John Key holding an iced cake in the shape of New Zealand which he can't wait to slice up. It shows opposite the Labour leader Phil Goff who holds a pie that is said to be 'GST free'; he says 'Sink your teeth into our lovely fruit & vege pie topped off with flakey policy... I mean pastry!' Jumping out of a teapot labelled 'NZ First' with the 'NZ' crossed out, is leader of NZ First, Winston Peters, who shouts 'I told you I'd be back!' Context: the run up to the 2011 election. The two main leaders make their promises, John Key to sell assets and Phil Goff to make fruit and vegetables 'GST free'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).