Rest periods

Date: [March 1904]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-634-46-2

Description: Lord Ranfurly and party at rest on a river bank in the vicinity of Ruatoki, photographed in March 1904 by Malcolm Ross. The stop was possibly occasioned by a breakdown to the carriage. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Kia Ora! A break-down and a pick-me-up! Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 70 x 96 mm mounted on album page 255 x 287 mm

Date: 1983

From: Evans, Malcolm 1945-:17 photocopies of "Edna" cartoons published bewteen 1981 and 1987.

Reference: H-721-020

Description: Shows Edna working on top of a hay-stack while her farmer husband uses a plank to somersault her up a cup of tea. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size. Physical Description: horizontal A4 size photocopy

Date: 1979

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-535

Description: This cartoon has 3 scenes each showing some aspect of security. In the top right three security officers are standing looking at a door marked P.S.I.S. Another man is saying this stands for 'Parliamentary Security Intensification System'. This is a play on the initials P.S.I.S. which stands for Public Service Investment Society. In the lower left a security guard stands outside a door hugging himself to keep warm while a colleague looking out throuh the door says that the Prime Minister has ordered door checks to remain during southerly winds. In the lower right two security guards stand at the door labelled P.S.I.S. watching the tea lady pushing the tea trolley. She says she would rather be called the tea lady than the liquidator. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 460 mm

Date: [193-?]

Reference: PAColl-7244

Description: Photographs of work on the Massey Agricultural College farm at Palmerston North, showing a man operating a pick-up rake pulled by two horses; a side view of the same process (although it is referred to as a sweep) with a Manitoba stacker in the background; a horse-operated Manitoba stacker in operation building a haystack; and the men having smoko next to a haystack. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002730 to 002733 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 19 Feb 1961

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

By: Pickering, C L, active 1961; Williams, E M (Mr), active 1928-1961

Reference: OHInt-0002/001

Description: Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington : 1961 Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Interviewer(s) - C L Pickering Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington Accompanying material - Documentation available at MS-Papers-1239, folder 1 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 1 interview(s). 14 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other No script available. Search dates: 1961

Date: 1957

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-386-135

Description: Shows three frames containing unrelated vignettes. The first frame is titled 'Doctor urges cocktails for blood pressure' and shows a woman giving her husband a disapproving look as he drinks cocktails. The second frame shows a doctor treating a man who has collapsed in shock after reading a newspaper headline which states 'Tunnel road to start'. In the third frame, men are discussing rugby during their tea break Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: [ca 1941-1945]

From: Mudgway, Larraine, fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10047

Description: Group photograph of World War II soldiers on a tea break, taken between 1941-1945 by an unidentified photographer. Probably shows NZE non Div 6 Reinforcements in Palestine or Egypt. Names transcribed from back of print are as follows (probably from top left): J Saggers (Wellington, W R Parsons (Gisborne), S Campbell (England), R McGregor (Woodville), J Wilson (Dunedin), R Doran (Auck), J Beaumont (Dunedin), J [Burt?] (Christchurch), R England (K C), Sgt Gordon (Frankton), R Langdon, T Cuthbert (North Auckland), P Evans (Palm Nth), Micheal[?], G Scanlan (N Auck), A Robb (Nelson), W Smith (N Auck), Nesbitt (Dunedin), Dimitri [?], W Street (Christchurch), J Ware (N Auck), Cpl Roberts, T Grieve, A Morris (Dunedin), J Capper (Wellington), L [Withelmsen?] (Dunedin), R Mason (Nelson), B [Haerad?], L Beighton (Dunedin), F Kenworthy (Auck), Tony [?], B Ries (Dannevirke), F Murphy (Christchurch), G Young (Eskdale), E Kenworthy (Napier), W Jackson (West coast), H Sinclair (Nelson), D Gordon (Ohakune), F Steele (Wellington, J Egerton (Invercargill), R Christoffersen (Nelson). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - [handwritten list of names - see below] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Date: 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-547

Description: This cartoon features two male public servants discussing the call for direct action by the PSA, over money tea. They then go back to work - to a full in-tray and an empty out-tray. Inscriptions: Pencil dated lrh corner 15/8 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 280 x 406 mm

Date: 1976

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :60 cartoon photocopies published 1975 - 1976 in Sunday News.

Reference: H-358-036

Description: Shows four policemen breaking down a door. Two other officers in the room have been taken by surprise. Refers to an incident where policemen broke down a door that was already unlocked. Extended Title - Relax constable it's just our lads coming in for tea break. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1955

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-002

Description: Shows a busy office with women typing at their desks. In the middle of the room another woman is kneeling at a camp fire where she is pouring cups of coffee. The other women are watching in amazement. The clock on the wall says 10am indicating that it is morning tea time. Refers to the end of the Christmas break even though some people are still on holiday. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1954

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1954 to 1960]

Reference: C-076-004

Description: Shows four scenes depicting British civil servants taking their tea break. In the first two men are standing outside a tea shop lamenting this is the last time they will be able to meet for tea. In the second scene a group of men are scrambling from their desks to grab a cup of tea as the tea trolley is rushed past them. In the third scene a man clutches his throat as he tries to find a report for his superior. He explains that he was eating his cake while he looked for the report, then realizes that the cake is still on his desk and he has eaten the report. In the final scene a man is being offered a cup of tea from the tea trolley but declines as he has brought his own flask and eccles cake. Publication - Published on 17 Nov 1954, page 4 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 205 x 614 mm

Date: 1987

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-668

Description: Shows a corporate office with a large desk behind which two expansive-looking managers stand endeavouring to calm the fears of the tea lady who stands before the desk wondering whether her job is safe. Refers to the restructuring of many government departments during Rogernomics. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 1 A3 photocopy Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-7011

Description: Photographs of a hunting trip including men chopping wood, men holding their rifles outside their tent and outside a hut with a display of antlers on it, men setting off in a canoe, a group of five Maori children, man on a sledge pulled by a horse going through a Maori village, and two men sharing a pot of tea. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-094382 to 094393 Quantity: 12 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0533-F

Description: Images show scenes during construction of a new marae at Mangere, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show kuia outside preparing kiekie (flax) for tukutuku panels. Other male workers take a lunch break. Also shows a market gardener sewing seed in freshly dug soil. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0522-F

Description: Images show interior factory scenes at Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show Crown Lynn workers stacking plates and women applying designs to pieces of tableware. Another worker takes a tea break. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0521-F

Description: Images show interior factory scenes at Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show factory workers undertaking various tasks to produce Crown Lynn pots and tableware. Other workers take a tea break with stacks of crockery in the background. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 2007

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

Reference: DCDL-0003447

Description: Two workers sit in the tearoom at smoko break trying to chat over the level of noise being created by two large robotic forklifts that are engaged in clearing the table. Refers to Robotics lab technician Grant Sargent of ECE Department who is involved with a start-up company, namely INRO, whose current project is to create a robotic forklift for warehouses and coolstores. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0029720

Description: Shows the hand of the Government dunking a biscuit ('Tea Breaks') into a cup ('Employment Relations Amendment Bill'). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0029734

Description: Cartoon shows three trick-o-treaters at Prime Minister John Key's front door. One is dressed as a homeless zombie, who asks for affordable housing. Behind him, a woman dressed as a witch holds up a tea cup and says, "Tea breaks!". Behind her, a man is dressed as a jobless ghost who say, "Real jobs!" The Prime Minister reels back in horror, and spills the bowl of candy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0029739

Description: Three versions of a cartoon showing a potential new All Blacks rugby jersey design that no longer has the traditional white collar. Accompanying note from the cartoonist reads, 'The All Blacks will launch their new jersey in London next week, indications are that it will not have a traditional white collar.' The cartoons also reference a recent ammendment to the 2000 Employment Relations Act. Multiple versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).