Insect pests - Control

Date: 16 Mar 2000

From: CORSO 50th anniversary oral history project

By: Jackson, Trevor, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0504/11

Description: Trevor Jackson born North London 1948, came to New Zealand at the age of 16 years. Recalls early years in England with family moving house several times before eventually coming to New Zealand and buying a small holding to grow tomatoes in Halswell [Christchurch]. Recalls making friends at Hillmorton [school] and quickly being identified as a New Zealander. Talks about involvement in Vietnam War protest and petition against Springbok Tour while at Lincoln University. Refers to views of main-stream media. Describes the various jobs undertaken before marrying Lyn and going to Chile, travelling through Peru and Bolivia and down to Argentina and eventually going to England, enroling at Imperial College to complete a masters' degree. Mentions subject of thesis - decision-making rules in pest control. Also hitch-hiked to West Africa before returning in 1977 to take up teaching fellowship at Lincoln University. Backgrounds formation of Working People's Solidarity Committee in Christchurch. Describes forms of fundraising. Discusses organisation for the Anti- Springbok tour protest in Christchurch and explains how tour put police in a difficult position. Talks about involvement with CORSO, being on International Projects Committee and starting CORSO's involvement with Latin America. Notes that first Latin America refugees were accepted after the Chilean coup. Talks about film `A Fair Deal' produced in 1979. Mentions World Vision. Talks about Titewhai Harawira. Other topics discussed include: visiting project partners in Nicaragua and El Salvador in 1979 and in 1985 visited some project partners in Brazil; visit to Chile 1991 and meeting with Isabelle Allende daughter of Salvador Allende; further research in Germany on alternatives to chemical control for insect pests; Rogernomics, globalisation etc and restructuring of AGRESEARCH. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Cecily McNeill Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011197-011199 ; OHC-005484-005486 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3916. One undated and unidentified coloured photograph and one b&w photograph of Trevor Jackson, aged 11 years

Date: 2000 - 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-632-001/019

Description: Topics include US President George W. Bush's verbal ineptitude and his attitude to 'commies', former Minister of Maori Affairs Dover Samuel's relationship with Prime Minister Helen Clark, Member of Parliament Tau Henare's changing political allegiances, delays on the Cook Strait ferries, controversy over Minister of Consumer Affairs Phillida Bunkle's official residence in Wellington, Christmas presents, Santa Claus's allegedly 'illegal' behaviour, government expenditure on eradication of the varroa bee mite and on the arts, controversy over an advertisement using a haka, Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton's attempts to establish a 'Peoples' Bank', buying babies by internet, bonuses given to S.O.E. employees, legalisation of marijuana, kaumatua and Maori greviances, Helen Clark's policy towards Waitangi Day, the formation of a new Maori political party by Derek Fox, Helen Clark's contrasting speeches supporting entrepreneurs and against exploitive businessmen, and promotion of sport in schools. Quantity: 19 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 1999 - 2000

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: H-637-001/009

Description: Topics inlude the high price of whitebait, the effect of the 1999 election on business confidence, the public image of the Inland Revenue Department, shortcomings in the equipment of the New Zealand peace-keepers in East Timor, attitudes towards the millenium, the non-event of the Y2K bug, the high cost of funding the national museum, Te Papa, the cost of buying frigates, the exorbiant pay paid to television newsreaders as a news item, control of the varroa bee mite. Quantity: 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: A4 size colour prints

Date: 1998

From: Fletcher, David :Twenty original cartoons published in the New Truth and TV Extra, August - December 1998.

Reference: A-322-126

Description: A three-panel strip showing Jenny Shipley and Maurice Williamson standing beside a computer monitor on a desk. Williamson has brought in a garishly dressed young man in a sideways cap, whom Shipley assumes to be a computer nerd, but Williamson corrects her - he is just a nerd, who advances towards the computer with a spraycan of "Bug Kill". Inscriptions: Recto - centre - D. Fletcher Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt pen, 123 x 393 mm.

Date: 12 Mar 2009

From: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand oral history project

By: Bongiovanni, John Joseph, 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0975-04

Description: Interview with John Bongiovanni, born in Elgin, Scotland, in 1952. Mentions his Italian-born father was a prisoner of war in Scotland who returned to Scotland after the War. Refers to his family coming to New Zealand in 1962, his father, a gardener, working initially for Sir John Ormond, and his schooling. Talks about completing a degree in horticulture at Massey university and then getting a job in the Port Agriculture Service in Auckland. Describes the on-the-job training through a buddy system, technical training with tutors, the manuals and formal exams. Comments that he quickly became a tutor in plant pathology and revamped the manual. Talks about being rostered alternately at the port and the airport, and outlines the inspection work carried out. Mentions that containerisation was just beginning but he still saw labour-intensive handling of cargo. Comments on the culture change when women were first employed in the Service. Discusses the fumigation service and qualifing to be a supervisor there. Refers to the chemicals used, safety, and later getting self-contained breathing apparatus. Talks about aircraft disinfection, DDT being used in the past, and new procedures using contact inseticides on surfaces developed by Air New Zealand and MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) scientists Pat Dale and Ruud Kleinpaste in the early 1980s. Refers to problems in calculating the amount of spray to use because of different configurations of compartments in planes, avionics and air circulation. Mentions complaints from passengers about spraying for airborne pests in passenger compartments. Comments on managing the new procedures, teaching them overseas, and attending international meetings on aircraft disinfection. Discusses inspecting apples, and the impossibility of detecting dormant insects in apples in cold storage before they are exported. Refers to going to North America to check New Zealand apples there, and also to check Californian packhouses handling export grapes for New Zealand. Comments on the senior positions he held in the Quarantine Service in Auckland and Wellington, including being assistant director in 1986 with responsibility for training and the procedures manual. Talks about working in MAF's auditing services 1986-1992, and then becoming Natonal Advisor for Border Inspection (i.e. manager) after a restructuring in 1992 which split policy and service delivery. Refers to user charges being introduced. Discusses the introduction of x-ray machines for international airports after strong lobbying by grower groups, and the use of beagle dogs. Reflects on coworkers Julian Brown, Jaimie Baird and Neil Hyde. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001096 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract, form. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.19 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001097, OHA-7299. Search dates: 1952 - 2009

Date: 1930 - 1965

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

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PRINTING-Whitcombe-2

Description: Includes: 1. Bliss supersedes soap. The magic wash for woollens, fine fabrics, dishes, everything! (Proof sheet)(2 copies) 2. Cadbury's drinking chocolate (Proof sheet) 3. Chandler & Co. Ltd. Go to Bruce's shops for cakes, pastries, sponges. "Try our honey bread; it's great" [1930s?] 4. Edmonds sure to rise quality products [Edmonds cake baking powder, Edmonds jelly crystals, Edmonds artificial vanilla custard powder, Edmonds Acto baking powder, Edmonds finest maize cornflour, Edmonds sponge mix, Edmonds baking powder]. Proof sheet 5. Empire Rubber Mills Ltd, Woolston. New Empire moulded straight inflations (Packaging proof sheet, light card) 6. Godfrey Phillips (Aust.) Pty Ltd. Greys is great. 1/2 lb jar 7/-; 2 oz tin 1/9; 1 oz pkt 10 1/2. (Proof sheet) 7. Grogan's Cordials Ltd, Lord St., Greymouth. Orange, artificially coloured, preservatised (Proof sheet of repeated pattern) 8. Liquid Fli-Keelo kills flies, moths, mosquitoes, fleas. Pleasantly perfumed; harmless to human beings and fabrics (Proof sheet) 9. Mitchell's Prize crop; Silver Fern mild; Time for a Capstan; Ardath the English cigarette (4 strip packaging labels on one proof sheet) 10. Montgomery's Furnishings Ltd. Furniture, furnishings, carpets, linoleums at the most up-to-date modern showroom in Lower Hutt. Best value for cash or easy terms. Lower Hutt and at Oxford St., Levin (2 copies) 11. New Zealand Breweries Ltd. Bavarian Bitter old style beer, fully matured [Sheet of labels, 11 remaining out of 12] 12. Quill Morris (1936) Ltd. Coronet sarsparilla, compound beverage, extra special, contains preservative (Proof sheet of repeated pattern) 13. Speedee jugs; always leaders in the field / Railways Studios 14. Walker & Hall (N.Z.) Ltd. Safeguarded quality. Goldsmiths, silversmiths & Cutlers / Railways Studios 15. J R Watkins Co (N.Z.) Ltd. Watkins gift sets, Xmas club box (Proof sheet of repeated pattern) 16. J R Watkins Co (N.Z.) Ltd. Scalp tonic (Proof sheet of repeated pattern; for bottle label?) (2 copies) 17. J R Watkins Co (N.Z.) Ltd. Watkins violet talcum powder (Proof sheet of repeated pattern) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 550 mm. Provenance: Likely to be from Ferrymead Printing Society, along with other lots purchased at the same time (eg lot 407).

Date: 1951-1990

By: Entomological Society of New Zealand

Reference: 90-293

Description: Correspondence, blocks and photographs, register of members, conference proceedings, newsletters and some financial records. Includes results of an systemic entomological survey in 1969. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 box(es). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed, photos Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Processing information: Not yet described.

Date: 1983

By: Hall, Sol, active 1983; New Zealand Forest Service; Hasselberg, Peter Douglas, 1925-

Reference: Eph-D-FOREST-SERVICE-1983-01

Description: Shows strata of colour changing from yellow at the top to orange at the bottom. Shows the progression of a tree dying, down the left side, and a large beetle with long antennae at the lower right. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 423 mm.

Date: 2001

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

Reference: DX-002-023

Description: Husband and wife reading two different newspaper stories. Those involved in the failures of the cervical screening programme seemed to be afraid to take responsibility for their mistakes. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 15 Apr 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-05572-F

Description: D Brown (Christchurch) uses the dust gun at the New Zealand Malarial School, which was set up in the Volturno Valley, Italy, by the NZ Field Hygiene Section. Photograph taken on 15 April 1944 by M D Elias. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0001599

Description: An enormous explosion has just occurred behind some nearby houses. A startled onlooker is told by the men from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries eradication team that they have had to resort to this means of eradicating the Painted Apple moth as aerial spraying is causing too much trouble from residents who are afraid of the effects on health of the spray. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-242

Description: Winston Peters is parachuting over the Chatham Islands looking for Asian wasps. He is holding a fly swat and singing 'Secret Asian man...'. Refers to MP Winston Peters campaigns about Asian immigrants to New Zealand. Extended Title - Secret Asian man... Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 15 Apr 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-05571-F

Description: D Brown (Christchurch) uses the 'dust gun' at the New Zealand Malarial School in the Volturno Valley, Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken on 15 April 1944 by M D Elias. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 15 Apr 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-05581-F

Description: As an anti malarial measure, J Jacobson (Wellington) sprays out his bivvy before retiring. Photograph taken in the Volturno Valley area, Italy, on 15 April 1944 by M D Elias. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 2002

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-219

Description: Shows a hand holding a magnifying glass over an ant circus. A sign on the circus advertising 'red fire ants' has a 'pestponed' notice on it. An ant on stage is announcing ants performing 'crazy antics'. One of them is a yellow ant wearing a chinese hat. Extended Title - ..and now with their crazy antics... Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2000

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-162

Description: A MAF official stands in the middle of the cartoon carrying a canister of insecticide on his back and holding a spray gun. He is facing the 'glassey-winged sharpshooter' who is wearing a helmet and gloves and carrying a pistol. Behind him is a woman carrying a tray with wine glasses and a bottle of wine. The official is holding her back so that she doesn't get too close to the sharpshooter. Extended Title - That's far enough buster! Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2003

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-257

Description: Jim Sutton is pictured as a cowboy riding a horse. He is firing gold and silver bullets from his gun and throwing a bundle of money at an insect pest. The pest is flying in the direction indicated by a sign 'yummy forests'. Extended Title - Hiyo gold & silver away! Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2003

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-262

Description: Shows a man driving a car with a hitchhiking passenger in the front seat. The hitchhiker is an Asian gypsy moth, a pest discovered in Auckland. Also refers to the Verroa mite which attacked beehives. Extended Title - Good on ya kid - trying to get into the forestry business, even though you're a gypsy & an Asian. I once gave a lift to a young foreign mite trying to get into bee-keeping... Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2001

By: Slane, Christopher, 1957-

Reference: H-652-012

Description: 'Australian' wasps flying into Kaipara Harbour. Exhibition caption reads - Leaving aside the possum that was intentionally brought to New Zealand, one by-product of increasing trans-Tasman trade and tourism has been the arrival of Australians, including blowflies, spiders, mosquitoes and wasps, with no redeeming features. Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003. Published in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' by Ian F. Grant, published by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive in association with Tandem Press, 2001. Quantity: 1 A5 size clipping from periodical, full colour... Physical Description: A5 size clipping.

Date: 2004

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DX-022-126

Description: A Maori man leaning out a window warns Tariana Turia that the SIS are hanging around again; below his window is an SIS officer whose disguise is pathetic, and who is obvious in his purpose. Refers to allegations that the Security Intelligence Service had been involved in improper espionage, bugging Tariana Turia and other leading figures in the Maori Party. Extended Title - Stop Insect Swarms Ltd "Bugs-R-Us". Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..