Prophecies

Date: [1948-1955], n d

By: Bassett, Leonard Elliot, 1879-1956

Reference: MS-Papers-6054

Description: Comprises `The Understanding of "The Secrets of the times"' (22nd ed, 1949) with insert; `A Few of the thousands of appreciations received of the accurate forecasts and interpretations provided by the "Sevens Service", 32nd ed (1948), with insert; broadsheet, `Truth in action' (Apr 1955); notices re `The Multiplication of gambling facilities', `The spring tide of trouble arising from governmental hypocrisy' and `Test your awareness' (all undated); and including on `Rateitis', Dr Donald Soper, tragic errors (about leucotomy and similar issues), and the need for a new navigation chart for our times (May-Dec 1955) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Printed Collections hold published works of Bassett Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (some carbon) and printed matter Transfers: From Book Collections - Flyers, circulars and notices removed from the Printed Collections.

Date: 1962

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-137-526

Description: The cartoonists invite critics of his wrong prediction about the results of the second test to come and give him a 'precise' prediction so that he can draw according to that. Refers to the test matches against Australia in 1962. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on card, 380 x 280mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 21 March 2011

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

Reference: A-453-415

Description: Little green creatures panic believing they are doomed; a wiser creature suggests that they shouldn't believe everything they hear on the Internet. Context: refers to a doomsday prophesy saying that we were all going to perish in 2012, taken up with enthusiasm by American talk shows. Described as a polo shift. It seems that someone has become confused by the Coreolis flip that the North and South poles reverse. Confusion between the rotational and magnetic poles. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - 210311A12BODYCARTOON To MediaGrid Pls [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 2017

From: [Posters and other ephemera of A3 size relating to Maori issues. 2017-2018]

Reference: Eph-C-MAORI-2017-01

Description: Poster for the centenary of the Māori King Movement's Parliament being opened at Rukumoana Marae in Morrisonsville. The photograph (by Mark Hamilton) shows a detail of a kahukiwi cloak once belonging to Tupu Atanatiu Taingakawa (1844-1929) made of muka, kiwi, kaka and kereru feathers. Below is a poem in Te Reo and English, a prophecy of King Tāwhiao Pōtatau Te Wherowhero on his deathbed in 1894. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1933-1959

By: Hyde, William Julius, 1889-1962

Reference: MS-Papers-0160

Description: These papers include printed material on revelation issued by Sevens Service, articles by Hyde on politics and revelation, an article by D Cresswell on Dr J G Hyde Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed material Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 2011

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

By: New Zealand Press Association

Reference: DCDL-0017924

Description: At the top of the cartoon are the words 'The rapture...' The cartoon shows a man who represents 'fans' who has sprouted wings and is flying up to heaven with an ecstatic smile on his face. On the ground is a newspaper with a headline reading 'Carter & McCaw re-sign with NZRU'. Context - The re-signing of All Blacks Dan Carter and Richie McCaw for the next four years is good cause for New Zealand rugby fans to get the champagne glasses out and celebrate, for more than one reason. It means the All Blacks retain the two best players in the world, players a coach can build a team around. More flexible contracts will greatly lessen the threat of losing our best talents overseas. The 'rapture' refers to a prediction that the world was going to end. Harold Camping, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement that judgement day was nigh seemed to go silent when nothing happened on 21 May 2011. It was supposed to begin with another earthquake in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: National Business Review (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019237

Description: The cartoon shows a crowd of people awaiting the day of rapture which was predicted by prophet Harold Camping for 21 October. Someone in the crowd says 'Damn! And I was looking forward to Labour Weekend and the footy final' Context: The rapture prediction was another failure for Camping, aged 90, and he was relieved of his Broadcasting post on a Christian network in the United States. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019312

Description: Little green creatures panic believing they are doomed; a wiser creature suggests that they shouldn't believe everything they hear on the Internet. Context: refers to a doomsday prophesy saying that we were all going to perish in 2012, taken up with enthusiasm by American talk shows. Described as a polo shift. It seems that someone has become confused by the Coreolis flip that the North and South poles reverse. Confusion between the rotational and magnetic poles. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019339

Description: A man reads about 'lunatic prophesies' and his wife who is reading the '2011 Budget' agrees that it is a lunatic prophesy as well. Refers to a doomsday prophesy saying that we were all going to perish in 2012, which was taken up with enthusiasm by American talk shows. Described as a polo shift. It seems that someone has become confused by the Coriolis flip which causes the North and South poles to reverse. Confusion between the rotational and magnetic poles. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

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

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0019904

Description: A man reads a newspaper report about the 'horror road toll'. His wife asks him what the Mayan calendar prodicts will bring about the demise of mankind. He replies 'the motorcar...' Context: Several hundred years ago, the Ancient Mayans predicted the apocalypse on this very date (December 21st 2012). With their 5,125 year old calendar resetting itself to 0.0.0.0. on this date, many are preparing for the worst. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Nelson mail (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019993

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key, Deputy PM Bill English and Minister for Resources and Energy as well as Earthquake Recovery, Gerry Brownlee; they are dressed as Mayan chiefs and carry blood-spattered axes. John Key says it is going to be a tough year and they may have to make a few sacrifices. Context: The Mayan calendar predicts a 2012 apocalypse. The government plans to save money by demanding savings in the public service. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017415

Description: In the first seven of eight frames astrologer Ken Moon predicts a 'black day ahead', a 'day of great shaking' and 'terror' and 'children crying' and 'people fleeing' and 'a day in May'. In the last frame people realize that he has seen, not an earthquake, but the budget. Context - After the two big earthquakes in Christchurch on 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011, the so-called Moon Man, Ken Ring, backed away from his prediction that Christchurch would be whacked by a huge earthquake on the 20th of March 2011. His claims terrified Cantabrians and led to people fleeing Christchurch. The 2011 budget will be announced in May and predictions are that it will be a cost-cutting one because of New Zealand's debt, partially caused by the Christchurch earthquakes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

Reference: DCDL-0017374

Description: Astrologer Ken Ring sits at his desk in his study surrounded by ancient scrolls and alchemical instruments; three people stand nearby awaiting advice. Ken Ring says 'Well, predicting a once-in-a-million year movement of tectonic plates is one thing... but predicting when officials will understand the plight of companies affected by it...' Context - Business people in Christchurch in the weeks following the earthquake are becoming increasingly frustrated at their inability to gain access to premises that have been made out of bounds because of potential danger. This has resulted in protests in which police physically intervened when several protesters went inside the cordon. Colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DX-025-159

Description: In the first frame Helen Clark sits before a microphone and prophesies that an early election might be a possiblity after all because of sophisticated polling. In the second frame Michael Cullen, Minister of Finance, in a blood-spattered pinafore, exclaims 'yes!!' as he stands at a laboratory dissection table examining the entrails of a chicken. Other Titles - "Yes!!" Quantity: 2 megabyte(s) 1 digital cartoon.

Date: 2010

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015542

Description: A man in a pub reads a copy of 'Popular Science' magazine and tells his friend that one of the 10 best jobs of the future is 'thought hacker' which operates mind reading technology to scan thoughts. The friend thinks that it sounds like his wife. Refers to an article in 'Popular Science' that describes, somewhat tongue in cheek, the 10 best jobs of the future. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0015427

Description: Text above reads 'Darwin's "Harry the crocodile" picks a Gillard win in the Australia election - News.' Two men sit on rocks in the bush having a cup of tea and one of them says that according to bush telegraph, Danny the Wombat predicts an Abbott victory and Nigel the kookaburra is betting on a hung parliament. He makes fun of a trend that started with the octopus which predicted winners in the World Soccer Cup and continues with 'Harry the crocodile'. The Australian election held 21st August resulted in a hung parliament; Australians now wait for the end of vote-counting that will decide the outcome - neither party has captured the 76 seats needed to form a majority government. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2006

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

Reference: DCDL-0002814

Description: A bearded man looking rather like a prophet stands in the street holding a placard that proclaims '2007 is nigh'. Two women are chatting nearby and one of them comments to the other that the man's predictions are uncommonly accurate. Refers to the new year, 2007. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017902

Description: Text reads 'Misjudgement day' and the image shows the word 'APOCALAPSED' above someone holding a banner that reads 'The end is still nigh!' and includes a date '21.5.11' but the '11' is crossed out and is replaced with a '12'. There is a second version but can I spot the difference - no I cannot'. Context - Harold Camping, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement that judgement day was nigh seemed to go silent when nothing happened on 21 May 2011. It was supposed to begin with another earthquake in New Zealand. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017137

Description: A man and a woman chat over a cup of tea; the woman says 'That prediction made on Waitangi Day was a bit gloomy' and the man tells her to cheer up as he predits that 'John Key's going to announce a new public holiday if we win the Rugby World Cup' and she says 'And if that doesn't keep him up in the polls, he could promise to Mondayise it'. Context - A Waitangi dawn ceremony ended with a Maori elder prophesying the destruction of Wellington in a huge earthquake that would leave the Beehive "lying in the debris of the streets". In a strange end to this morning's prayer ceremony at the Treaty Grounds, Kerei Tia Toa said he had "seen" a great earthquake that was going to ravage Wellington in the month of June. John Key's polling rate is likely to be affected by the result of the Rugby World Cup for the All Blacks. Strangely one might think a catastrophic Christchurch earthquake occurred on 22 February in Christchurch (not Wellington!) but it was not in June. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1858 - 18/03/1908

From: Phillips, Watts, 1825-1874 :[1. A prophecy for A.D. 3000! The New Zealand artist ...; 2. A suggestion - The Leviathan. Published 1st Septr 1858, by Ackermann & Co., 106, Strand]

By: Clay, J S, active 1858

Reference: B-047-026

Description: Shows a conjectural drawing of the overgrown wreck of the huge paddlesteamer "Great Eastern", previously named the "Leviathan" in its planning stages. On a rowboat in the right foreground, three tourists survey the wreck. In the sky at top right, an aircraft called "The Aerial Omnibus, from New Zealand direct", hovers, with its passengers viewing the site. The title refers to Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1840 "Essay on 'The Ecclesiastical and political history of the Popes of Rome', by Leopold von Ranke" where Macaulay described the longevity of the Catholic Church which "may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Pauls" (quoted in Ellis' "Early prints of New Zealand", Christchurch, 1978, page 151). The quotation from Shakespeare may refer to the difficulties the ship had before its launch. The "Great Eastern" was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and was then the largest ship ever built, with a tonnage of 18,915 tons. The ship was launched on 30 January 1858, and trialled finally on 7 September 1858. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 340 x 500 mm.