Animal welfare

Date: 1904 - 1913

By: Stallard, A W, active 1910-1913

Reference: Eph-A-DOLPHINS-PJ-1904/1913-01

Description: Shows a photograph of the dolphin Pelorus Jack. Text states: "The only fish in the world protected by Act of Parliament. This remarkable white fish accompanies for several miles all steamers passing through the French Pass, on the Nelson-Picton run, New Zealand. "Jack" is estimated to be from 12 to 14 feet in length and always alone. This photo was taken from the deck of a steamer". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 136 x 87 mm

Date: 1991

From: [Posters and ephemera of around A2 and A1 size relating to fish, fish species and fishing in New Zealand and the Pacific. 1990-1999]

By: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand; Grace, Roger, active 1991

Reference: Eph-D-FISH-1991-01

Description: Poster showing a photograph of a fish near the ocean floor, and a diver looking on from the background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 700 x 490 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Mary Newman, Wellington, in 2004; one by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1891

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning animals, animal welfare, veterinary clinics, endangered animals]

Reference: Eph-A-ANIMAL-1891-01

Description: Certificate appointing Palethrope as a ranger. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and ink handwriting on vellum, 170 x 225 mm.

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-647-001/080

Description: 80 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Laila Harre and views on liberalisation of cannabis laws, Helen Clark asserts authority over Ms Turia, Maori and pakeha racial guilt and shame, Ms Turia reluctantly apologises for 'holocaust' comments, Dr Cullen ponders low business confidence as Grouch Marxist, Timor's Indepencence birthday celebrations destroyed by violence, Fijian-Indian refugees in Fiji following coup, political posturing over Treaty of Waitangi clause in free trade agreement with Singapore, US dollar blasts kiwi dollar, Sydney 2000 Olympics begin, Winston Peters plays the race card in the hopes of raising his popularity, Olympic swimming athletes get the once over by their female onlookers, Australian-New Zealand currency merger proposal, Prebble gets axed by Jenny Shipley, Kiwi dollar low and oil prices high, New Zealand is best at all the wrong things, sports couch potatoes, Milosevic runs for the presidency, US dollars gains steam with President Clinton in charge, women's performance at the Olympics, political awards, NZ toasts the Olympics, army peace keepers get pay review by Clark, 3 Middle East faiths based on love and compassion unable to share sacred site, Don Brash fails the Kiwi dollar, Clark and Milosevic relations, Israeli and Palestinian relations, court call for accountability of parole officers, NZ cricket sports fan still in the dark, NZ dollar down - sharemarket down - petrol prices up, Middle East pro-war protest singer, Clinton attempts to negotiate Middle East and National Party crises, Mr Mudgeway in padded cell waiting for big NZ sports win, rural economy on the up for farmers, Swain and Horomia on ownership of the Taranaki oil and gas fields, Lions rugby team claim the Air New Zealand trophy, Clark seeks an alliance with big business, Clark's alliance with big bisiness consumated, one-tree-hill pine tree felled along with Mike Smith, same-sex marriages, Clark preparing to kneecap Ruth Dyson for Norm Hewitt comments, Property Bill, Dyson resigns over drunk driving incident, purity pledge, cricket match-fixing, support for Paul Holmes' salary, lack of real choice in US presidential elections, NZ Melbourne Cup race winner, US election results on a knife edge, boxing - Lennox vs Tua, All Blacks beat France, Lennox Lewis vs David Tua boxing fight, US presidential election goes to court, English strung up as heretic, Tipene O'Reagan let's nature take its course with stranded whales, Labour Party victory conference, CNN backgrounds the US election count process, petrol prices high, US presidential election fought out on American flag, George Hawkins' suggested cost cutting measures for the Police, National Party leadership based on personality deficit of Bill English, George W. Bush wins Florida, Clarks preparation for Waitangi Day, Tainui iwi's new grievance cycle, Mrs Mudgeway's son hopes to qualify for ACC compensation, Clinton is back as President?, the new and the old All Black diet, signs of recovery in NZ economy being hidden from Don Brash, NZ/Australia defence spending and policies, Hawkins hands out pornography to Police to cut phone-sex costs, being a modern day All Black, Clark and Cullen's popularity increases, Simon Upton departs the National Party, obituary to reporter Mike Robson, America - where every judge counts in becoming President, Clark still unable to apologise to Dover Samuel, cricket at the Basin Reserve for Boxing Day test, petrol war, Anderton and Bunkle over question of where Phillida resides, Paul Holmes CD for Christmas makes Granddad throw-up. Quantity: 80 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

Date: 1980 - 1985

By: World Wildlife Fund of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-E-ANIMAL-1980s-01

Description: Shows two pandas, adult and baby, seated in an enclosure. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 890 x 617 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1987.

Date: 1978 - 1988

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-363-201/224

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 24 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1884-1980

By: Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Wellington Branch

Reference: 89-238

Description: Comprises minute books, correspondence, constitution and rules, circulars, leaflets and posters, records of subscribers and members, Junior SPCA, McCarthy Trust correspondence and financial records; also includes scrapbooks and some publications, annual reports, Wellington Conservancy Noxious Animals Advisory Committee, Cuff Memorial Scholarship, complaints and running sheets, rebuilding, Waverley farm, legacies and photographs Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 9 box(es). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 20 April 1969

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/258

Description: Chris Strom of Birkdale, Auckland, recalls how his boss could never bring himself to kill a turkey, so about three months before Christmas the bosses' wife started a turkey-for-Christmas nagging campaign, and describes how a determined woman can be `murder with her tongue'. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Script and notes at MS-Papers-1239, folder 83 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0263 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 13 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script for Country golf club.

Date: 10 Mar 1994

From: The Men in Our Lives oral history project

By: Higgie, Malcolm George, 1926-2004

Reference: OHInt-0406-02

Description: Outlines family background in farming and father's attempt at butchering in 1930 due to slump. Gives a detailed account of growing up in Fordell with a description of: amenities in the area - no electricity until ca 1928 so cooking was done on the Shacklock/Orion stove; Denlair School - constantly changing teachers with reference to Miss Swan who remained the longest, also the marble roll of honour (carrying names of those killed in the war) which hung over the school fireplace and is now bolted to a wall on one of Mack's sheds; amusements; Fordell Township; Wanganui Technical College and farming with father and later on his own. Talks about the eradication of gorse, breeding Romneys and Southdown rams, the unpleasant farming experience of facial excema and its effects on sheep. Mentions the changes in farming. Abstracted by - Susan Hawes Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - Denlair Road Accompanying material - Newspaper article 'This shower unit handles both sheep and cattle' with a photograph taken on the Higgie farm. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006788 Tape numbers - OHC-006789 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1526. 3 photographs - (1) Cover portrait of Malcolm Higgie, (2) Maggie and Clark Higgie with family from left, Jean, Mack, James and Enid (1938), (3) Merle and Mack Higgie with children from left, Dell, Sandra and Clive, (1955)

Date: 24 July 1993 - 24 Jul 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Cowan, Pauline Iris, 1960-

Reference: OHInt-0067/091

Description: Pauline Iris Cowan born Waihi and lived there all of her life. Recalls playing around Martha Hill during childhood. Describes what it was like for her mother looking after family on her own as father died when Pauline was three years. Talks about: schooling at Waihi and advice from career advisor; work experience at Ashley Tubmans, Accountants - reference to Munro processing machine, and later work at Waihi College. Describes involvement with SPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Mentions grandfather, a policeman, who was involved with the police keeping order during the Waihi Miners' Strike. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005850A; OHV-0272F Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1257.

Date: 1987-1992

From: Macky, Willow, 1921-2006 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

By: Taylor, Joan D, active 1991

Reference: MS-Papers-8762-07

Description: Original typesetting, order forms, accounts, notes, correspondence with publisher, background material, printed matter and sketches Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 11, 19, 25 May 1994 - 11 May 1994 - 25 May 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Green, James Richard, 1922-2010

Reference: OHInt-0616/18

Description: James Richard Green born Abbotsford 1922. Talks in detail about Elizabeth and Edwin Green's (own grandparents) emigration to New Zealand on the `Warrior Queen' in 1868, marriage of James Freeman to Elizabeth Green and involvement in coal mining in Abbotsford, with reference to Messrs Freeman & Doig. Describes Green Island school, including, Fife and Drum band, discipline, dental nurse and games played by boys. Recalls going down the mines during school holidays and describes various aspects of miners' lives. Mentions `black damp'. Refers to a casuality at Freeman's mine. Recalls the aerodrome on the `swamp' and seeing an early aeroplane land. Refers to Captain Bolt. Refers to Jack Hamilton, first Green Island policeman in own memory. Comments on crime, child molestation, rape etc and notes that possibly these occurred but were not brought out in the open as `children did not discuss family business at school'. Recalls first experience with telephone and arrival of electricity to Abbotsford ca 1920s. Discusses World War II - Home Guard, blackouts, manpowering, fear of invasion from Japan, rationing and lists of casualities in the newspaper. Describes courting days and the use of a horse and gig. Recalls appointment as SPCA inspector and talks about a fact-finding visit to other New Zealand SPCA branches. Refers to Mabel Howard. Recalls writing a handbook for inspectors 1968. Explains in detail origins of SPCA in England and first New Zealand SPCA formed in Dunedin in 1882. Mentions animal euthanasia. Recounts a story of an Abbotsford personality, John Davidson, a sea captain. Accompanying material - photocopy of newspaper article on the 100th anniversary of Dunedin's first Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Winter Show... Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010090-010093 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3368.

Date: 1987-1992

From: Macky, Willow, 1921-2006 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

By: Taylor, Joan D, active 1991

Reference: MS-Papers-8762-06

Description: Includes receipts, rough notes, corrected proofs, final draft, notes on Augueries of innocence Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2010 - 2014

By: Toothfish (Organisation)

Reference: Eph-E-GRAPHIC-ARTS-2010-01

Description: Poster shows a head and shoulders frontal portrait of a sheep, against a red background. The poster, whose image was first launched in October 2010, may refer to the war on nature as waged by Mao Tse Tung. The print is numbered 91 out of a run of 100 A1 posters in 2014. This 2014 run was different from the original 2010 run. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 840 x 591 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Toothfish, Wellington, 2014.

Date: 1995 - 1996

From: Eyework Design & Production :[Ephemera and posters. 1988-2004]

Reference: Eph-C-EYEWORK-WWF

Description: Includes issues of the periodical "Wildlife" for Autumn and Spring 1995, and Summer 1995/1996. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset and digital prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 9 Oct 1951-1957

From: Wellington Aquarium and Water Garden Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-11965-13

Description: Contains inward and outward correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the removal of fish from the foundations of Broadcasting House "The Fishpond" and correspondence with the Mayor of Wellington as well as a copy of the Society's resolution regarding "The Public Aquarium" at Oriental Parade. Correspondents include Minister of Works Mr W S Goosman, member of parliament Mabel B Howard, Mayor Robert Macalister, Town Clerk M S Duckworth, and Helen Loe (secretary to Mayor Frank Kitts). When World War Two halted work on the construction of Broadcasting House, concrete foundations had already been laid. Rain water filled the foundations and the Marine Department released 5000 goldfish and some Gambusia in an attempt to control mosquitoes. [Source: The first fifty years 1933-1983: The Wellington Aquarium and Water Garden Society Incorporated edited by Don Picken]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter

Date: 2013

By: New Zealand Shark Alliance

Reference: Eph-D-ANIMALS-2013-01

Description: Poster of the same general composition as the poster for the movie "Jaws", showing a volume of water, and in place of the "Jaws" shark, only a shark fin bleeding into the surrounding water. The text below gives an account of the practice of slicing the fins off sharks and then throwing the shark back into the sea, in order to leave more room in the fishing boats for the fins only. New Zealand, unlike some other countries, does not outlaw this practice at the time of this poster. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-079

Description: Shows three frames illustrating unrelated topics. The first is about Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax, and shows a carpenter putting a coin into a jar labelled 'Govt' as he does his work. The next frame is titled 'We've had a week of 'fair' weather' and shows a flooded fairground. The final frame is titled 'Miss Howard MP tells poultry farmers that she is vigorously opposed to the battery laying system.' It shows Mabel Howard reading about chickens and battery farming. A chicken in a battery cage says to another chicken 'C'mon Gert. Look miserable, and egg her on.' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1975

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-237

Description: A man in his armchair watching his crawling baby trying to reach the family cat. The cat is safe inside the playpen, out of the baby's reach Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper

Date: Date unknown

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: Eph-B-ROTH-Animal-Rights

Description: Includes: Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Project Jonah. 'Slaughter For Fashion'. Leaflet advertising demonstration at the Canadian High Commission against seal hunting. The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. 'I don't know so I don't care. I don't see it so it isn't there: is this your attitude towards VIVISECTION?' Pamphlet (2 copies). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints of sizes varying up to 330 mm.