Manufacturing industries - New Zealand

Date: 27 August 2008

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

By: NZ Truth (Newspaper)

Reference: A-453-006

Description: Shows a Chinese junk representing 'Chinese products' that has blasted a hole with a lead cannon ball in the side of a New Zealand ship representing 'NZ manufacturing'. A sailor in the junk says 'You'll be pleased to know we've reduced the lead content...' Refers to public concern about the high lead content in imported children's toys. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 27AugA14Cartoon 186mmx133 [in pen] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 210 x 300mm

Date: 1955

From: [Programmes and ephemera relating to festivals and competitions in Auckland, including Auckland Festival of the Arts programmes. 1930-1999]

By: Auckland Provincial Public Relations Office; Stappard, Hannah, active 1961-2015

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Auckland-1955-01

Description: Booklet with a cover illustration of a town cryer lists the events during this festival, including a parade, jazz concert, Greer Twiss Marionettes, Danish gymnasts, Concours d'Elegance, marching display, axemen's carnival. The second half of the booklet is taken up with a centre spread plan of the Western Springs exhibition, and lists and short notes about all the exhibitors. Pages 46-47 show photographs of the Carnival Queens. Contains photographs of carnival director George Gair, director of entertainment Rex Sayers, jazz producer Don Patton, jazz musicians Crombie Murdoch and John McKenzie, Greer Twiss, Kathleen Boyle, theatre producer Murray McNair, Concours D'Elegance manager Bob Geerligs, exhibition manager Mel Tronson, publicity manager Ron McIntosh. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, 210 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Philippa Conway, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 1961

By: Auckland Provincial Public Relations Office

Reference: Eph-B-FESTIVAL-Auckland-1951-01

Description: Booklet with a cover illustration of a juggling clown, and Father Time with a sickle. The programme includes a grand decorated float parade with illuminated floats, an opening ceremony, a grand Olympic Circus (with gymnasts, skaters, weight lifter, trick cyclist, drum majorettes and a bull fight), an international garden show, fashion parade (compered by 1ZB radio personality Marina), "Miss Auckland" parade, fireworks display, a pageant titled "Night of the Maori Race", a donkey derby and open gymkhana, Empire cavalcade, international fiesta, and a Battle of Flowers. The last page lists the commercial exhibits in the Trade Exhibition. The central spread shows photographs of all the candidates for "Miss Auckland": Pat Bullock, Ida She Cheong, Joy Clow, Joyce Fussell, Betty Gallagher, Shirley Hall, Gloria Jackson, Mary McDonald, Beverley Page, Heather Redwood, Margaret Shepherd, Noeline Swinton, June Sharpe, Colleen Turbett. Patricia Johnson and Isabel Moore are also listed but have no photograph. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 267 x 209 mm. Provenance: Donated by Philippa Conway, Wellington, in 2016.

Date: 1990 - 1999

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSEHOLD-Fire-1990s

Description: Includes advertising for: Castworks. Magnum cast iron in colour. Series 300 the Designer Collection; series 200 the Townhouse Collection; series 100 the Homestead Collection. [1990s] Fisher Stoves; division of Nelson Reliance Engineering Co Ltd. Fisher Handbuilt Traditional (Blenheim, Denniston, Lochinvar, Highwic). Flyer [1990s?] The Fireplace Ltd. [Set of stapled sheets showing installation methods for Jetmaster inbuilt fires]. 1999 Harris Flame Technology. EFEL Oil Heating. Flyer [1990s?] Hewitson Enviro-Heat Ltd. Contessa; deluxe model shown [1990s]. Flyer Janssens. Jayline woodfire installation instructions. Free stander mod.wfs-09- [1990?] Jetmaster. No open fireplace quite compares with a Jetmaster [1990s?] Kent, New Zealand's No 1 brand in heating. Kent, exclusive to the BBQ Factory, direct to you [ca 1993?] Kent Heating (1990) Ltd. Kent, a world leader (photocopied pamphlet showing different models: Spectra, Sherwood, Fiorenzi, Logfire, Logger, Tilefire)[1990s] Kent Heating (1990) Ltd. Kent; the 1992 collection of environmentally friendly woodfires. Kent Heating (1990) Ltd. Kent Multifuel freestanding heater. Installation and operation manual. [ca 1990-1997] Kent Heating (1990) Ltd. Kent Sherwood clean air freestanding heater. Installation and operation instructions. February 1996 Kent Heating (1990) Ltd. Kent Spectra assembly and installation instructions. [ca 1990?] Masport wood fires. Cast iron. New edition (Models Belvedere, Colorado, Panorama, Panorama Deluxe). [1990?] Masport Woodfire. Installing and operating instructions for Masport woodfires [ca 1990] Masport wood fires (including LE 2000, LE 3000, LE 5000, LE 7000, Le Provincial, Arcadia, and pot bellies). [1990s?] Milan Heating Systems Ltd. Standard installation. Piccolo specifications. 1 Oct. 1999 Pyro Classic Fires. For that warm cosy feeling. Pyro Classic IV. The Advertising House 1999. W H Harris Ltd. Welcome home to the warmth of Woodsman woodstoves. 2/90 [1990] W H Harris Ltd. Woodsman woodstoves. Specifications (for Rata, Ashley, Balmoral, Sequoia, Jarrah, Ebony). January 1991 (2 copies) Yunca, a division of Terry Young Ltd. Yunca multi-fuel heaters; the harmony of art and technology. [1990s?] Yunca Heating. Features of a genuine Yunca flue guard; with covering letter about untested flue guards, 12 November 1998 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 340 mm.

Date: 1996

By: New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation

Reference: Eph-D-MANUFACTURING-1996-01

Description: Poster shows a graph of the way manufacturing has grown or declined over the period 1978-1996. Growth was pumped up in election years, and declined in the period 1987-1993. Favourable conditions included low inflation, wise spending, lower taxes, openness to new ideas and peoples, great education system and continuous improvements. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 590 x 418 mm.

Date: 1980

By: New Zealand Organisation for Quality Assurance

Reference: Eph-C-MANUFACTURING-1980-01/04

Description: Posters include: Quality is as distinctive as your thumbprint! [design owned by Morton Suggestion Co., USA] (2 copies) Quality stands up to inspection [design owned by Morton Suggestion Co., USA] (2 copies) Right first time! [New Zealand design] (2 copies) The next inspector is our customer [design owned by Morton Suggestion Co., USA] (2 copies) Design credit refers to Turnbull Library Letters TL3/1/8, 6 August 1985 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, 440 x 308 mm.

Date: 2008 - 2009

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Economic Development

Reference: Eph-H-ECONOMY-2008-01

Description: Poster emphasising the importance of buying goods manufactured and produced in New Zealand shows a photograph of a city path on which three women are moving past each other. The one in the centre is dressed in 1950s clothing and pushes a pram from the era. The one on the left is from the 2000s and pushes a pushchair or buggy of the period. On the right, a woman on a futuristic hover-unit with a similarly levitated pram, is gliding along. The building in the background is the Bowen State Building on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print 1315 x 915 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers Ltd in December 2010.

Date: 2013

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026100

Description: Under the heading 'Bic Click Flick' a finger flicks a Bic ballpoint pen. Includes the caption: 'Drawn with a NZ-made BIC fine ballpoint pen... but alas, soon to be replaced by a South African import.' Refers to the announcement on 10 September that the Bic factory in Auckland will stop making pens and will import them from South Africa. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0026119

Description: Cartoon shows the Bic corporation logo, which has been crossed out in blue pen ink. Text reads, 'Bic closes NZ factory.' Context: The French company Bic, best known for the manufacture of ballpoint pens, has announced the closure of its Auckland pen factory by early 2014. (Stuff.co.nz, 11 Sept 2013) Colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024135

Description: Shows a stuffed kiwi souvenir with the words, 'Stuffed Toys DOC ditches NZ-made souvenirs in favour of products sourced from Asia'. Context: The Department of Conservation (DOC) has decided to stop carrying products from Rotorua-based company Rozcraft, in favour of selling less expensive souvenirs sourced from Asia. Many of Rozcraft's materials include fur from possums killed as part of DOC's campaign to control the pest. (Stuff.co.nz, 3 Mar 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024129

Description: A man surrounded by a group of onlookers modifies a billboard that reads, '100% pure' with a sign covering the word 'pure' and replacing it with the word, 'crazy'. A heading at the top of the cartoon reads, 'DOC ditches NZ-made souvenirs for cheap foreign-made ones'. Context: The Department of Conservation (DOC) has decided to stop carrying products from Rotorua-based company Rozcraft, in favour of selling less expensive souvenirs sourced from Asia. Many of Rozcraft's materials include fur from possums killed as part of DOC's campaign to control the pest. (Stuff.co.nz, 3 Mar 2013) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025331

Description: Depicts Prime Minister John Key standing on a clifftop as people walk off the edge. Beside him is torn down barriers and warning signs. Key says they have "removed barriers to manufacturing taking off". Refers to Key denying claims there is a crisis in the manufacturing sector in New Zealand. The Labour Party, Green Party, New Zealand First and Mana Party have held their own inquiry into manufacturing after the government refused to launch one (TV3 18 June 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

By: Bates, Neville Peter, 1950-

Reference: MSDL-2299

Description: Electronic files comprising a personal recollection relating to the history of the Dunlop tyre factory in Upper Hutt. In particular the redesign of the tube section of the factory between 1983 and 1984. Source of title - Supplied by Library Neville Peter Bates was in charge of redesigning the tube section of the Dunlop New Zealand Limited tyre factory in Upper Hutt 1983-1984 to incorporate equipment from the closed Reidrubber factory in Auckland. He took photographs to record progress of the project. Quantity: 3 Electronic document(s). Transfers: From Photographic Archive - Bates, Neville Peter, 1950- :Photographs of the tube section of the Dunlop factory in Upper Hutt (PA1-q-1187).. contains scans of colour photographs showing factory workers using the machinery, and drawings detailing the tube joining process

Date: 2014

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0027383

Description: Cartoon shows a man standing on the street in Bondi, Sydney, reading a newspaper with the headline, 'Aussie shops drop Kiwi goods'. A man standing in an alley opens his coat to reveal black market Kiwi products for sale - Marmite, kiwifruit, Pineapple Lumps, Tip Top eskimo pie, Anchor butter, and jandals. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0022862

Description: A pick-up truck labelled 'US Federal Reserve' has hit 'NZ Exports' and has driven away. The Prime Minister, John Key, claims that 'US Federal Reserve' is a 'pillar of society' and that 'NZ Exports' must have upset him. The cartoonist comments that it is a case of 'hit and run'. The New Zealand dollar continued its rise against the US dollar after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand held the Official Cash Rate ahead of quantative easing of the US dollar by the US Federal Reserve, a pillar of the world monetary system. A high New Zealand dollar disadvantaged New Zealand exports. The New Zealand Government offered no criticism of the US monetary policies, nor asked the Reserve Bank to provide any corrective. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023116

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister demands that data that supports the idea that there is no manufacturing crisis be manufactured. Context: The government denies that the manufacturing sector is in trouble. Labour leader David Shearer says NZ has had 40,000 jobs lost over the last four years and that manufacturing generates as much money for the country as tourism and agriculture put together. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023167

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The politician has been asked to speak at the 'Job Protection Summit'. Context: Trade unionists, opposition party leaders and employer organisations are gathering in Auckland for a summit meeting that will look for ways to save manufacturing jobs. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1939

From: [Posters and advertising ephemera purchased 2016 at Art + Object. 1910-1960]

Reference: Eph-E-MANUFACTURING-1939-01

Description: Poster shows a man in dungarees and a smartly-dressed woman shopper standing in front of a factory with smoking chimneys, and a farmhouse, against a yellow sky. The circular green "Develop New Zealand" logo appears at centre right, and features two kiwi and the Southern Cross constellation. Dated from suggested date in "Promoting prosperity", (Alsop / Stewart 2013), page 431. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 885 x 570 mm. Provenance: Previous owner likely to have been Ferrymead Printing Society.

Date: 1946 - 1950

By: Dunlop Rubber Company

Reference: Eph-D-MOTOR-PARTS-1940s-01

Description: Poster advertising Dunlop tyres, particularly the New Zealand-British venture announced around 1945, shows Mt Taranaki with the bridge of the New Plymouth Recreation Ground in the foreground. This scene is reflected in the hubcap of a Dunlop Fort tyre, the right front tyre on a red car with a gleaming bumper whose end is visible. The New Zealand and British flags are shown at lower left. From the Evening post, 31 August 1945, Page 6: "Referring to the proposed development of the tyre industry in New Zealand, Mr. Philip Proctor, overseas sales manager of the Dunlop Rubber Company, said the English company welcomed the opportunity to enable British experience to combine with New Zealand skill and-energy. The project would necessitate the importation of expensive plant and machinery of British manufacture. Considerable outlay would be needed in land and buildings, and for certain types of plant to be ordered in New Zealand". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 457 x 457 mm.

Date: 1980

By: Wellington Working Women's Resource Centre

Reference: Eph-C-BUSINESS-1980-01

Description: Poster shows images of "three wise men" figures labelled Tasman, Challenge and Fletchers, in the year that the three firm merged to become Fletcher Challenge. The presents they offer are Destruction, Rip-Off and Exploitation. A picture of the Holy Family is labelled Oppression, Destruction, Possession, Exploitation. The poster is headed up with holly and a lighted candle, and there are images of crystal glassware, a child's paddling pool, a calculator, portable radio, set of saucepans and a car, all likely viewed as materialistic trappings Design credit refers to Turnbull Library Letters TL3/1/8, 6 August 1985 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 430 x 317 mm.