Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Date: 1948 - 1972

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Scales, Sydney Ernest, 1916-2003; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q

Description: Dated and sourced cartoons from a range of New Zealand newspapers, a few dating through to the 1970s. The two boxes contain 13 folders in date order; 15 December 1948 to 1 July 1950 (E-549-q-1), 8 July 1950 to 22 December 1950 (E-549-q-2), 4 January 1951 to 17 May 1951 (E-549-q-3), 1 June 1951 to 31 August 1951 (E-549-q-4), 30 September 1951 to 30 May 1952 (E-549-q-5), 3 June 1952 to 11 November 1953 (E-549-q-6), 16 January 1954 to 23 December 1954 (E-549-q-7), 31 January 1955 to 18 December 1956 (E-549-q-8), 22 January 1957 to 29 November 1957 (E-549-q-9), 3 December 1957 to 9 April 1958 (E-549-q-10), 10 April 1958 to 31 July 1958 (E-549-q-11), 1 August 1958 to 10 November 1958 (E-549-q-12), 11 November 1958 to 5 September 1972 (E-549-q-13). Quantity: 2 container(s) Wax boxes.. Physical Description: Newsclippings pasted to sheets of paper

Date: 1951

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-03-028

Description: Shows soldiers loading New Zealand butter into ships, and thus being reminded about loading munitions for the Korean War. Refers to the fact that the waterside strike was delaying exports of New Zealand products, and needed to be combatted. Presumably the concept of combatting Communism is also incorporated. Published in the Auckland herald on 28 February 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 140 x 215 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1945

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: E-605-q

Description: Includes cartoons about: Sunspots, Hitler, Semple's monetary reforms ("The Greeks had a word for it - "Semplocoon" group); Walter Nash on the radio, Hon P C Webb, "Old Soldier Sam" character, Goebbels, the Germany-Russia-Italy triangle, John A Lee kicked out of the Labour Party Easter Conference, income tax increases, selling butter overseas, Hilter claims Poland, bombing Poland, the 'Port Bowen' (ship) in Wanganui Harbour, Includes cartoons by other cartoonists in British papers: Strube, Illingworth, Churchill, Chris Seare[?], Fenwick, G S Sherwood. Also includes cuttings of some cartoons by David Low. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - (Front cover): Register of mortgages Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 60 newsclippings (approx), stuck into lined exercise book, with red marbled cover 323 x 207 mm.

Date: 1967 - 1970

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-032

Description: Workers for the Natural gas Company explain to an irate householder why they are installing a gas pipe parallel to the power lines using the electrical power poles as support. Extended Title - Natural Gas Company. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Reproduction of black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 358 x 514 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1969

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-033

Description: The words 'natural gas potential' are loaming out of Tom Shand's pipe to the alarm of the power board men gathered around the seance table. Extended Title - The possibility of discovering vast quantities of natural gas in NZ must be taken into account - Mr Shand at the Electrical Supply Authorities conference. Natural gas potential. Power Boards Seance, Tom Shand, medium. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 320 x 481 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1966

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Webb, Norman David, 1913-2005

Reference: B-129-011

Description: Shows Madam Kilowatt, a fortune teller with a light bulb on her table in place of a silver ball. She, labelled "The Planners" is advising her client on the power forecast, with her cat "Blackout" beside her. Illustrates the difficulty of predicting power needs. The campaign to save Lake Manapouri from being flooded for the dam, was under way in the early 1960s, bnut did not finally succeed. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick / N.Z. Herald / 15.7.66.; Recto - top left - News: "Manapouri Dam not now needed"/"Power plans cost cut by [pounds] 135 M". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and watercolour on paper 393 x 472 mm.

Date: 1935 - 1959

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: A-321-010

Description: Shows a group of men friends cooking a chicken over a fire outside their snow-covered cottage in the mountains. One is operating a radio with headphones, another chases a pukeko, another talks to a stag, one is chased by a deer, whilst yet others climb the side of a mountain in the background. The radio operator says: (according to text stuck on beneath image): "Civilisation coming through at last! What message shall I give them?" The chicken-cooker replies: "Vote of thanks to the Matson Line for their excellent idea!" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on sheet 235 x 290 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1950

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-02-039

Description: Shows two children, Auckland and N. Shore, looking through a glass window and pointing excitedly at an electrified railway system going through a city landscape. Published in the Auckland herald on 4 October 1950. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 145 x 225 mm.

Date: 1937

From: Minhinnick, Gordon :[Three cartoon laser copies, published in the New Zealand Herald, August - September 1937].

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: H-540-002

Description: The cartoon shows a man representing New Zealand, playing rugby and scoring a try. However he has put the ball down at the 25 yard line instead of the try line. Two players from the opposing team, representing British agriculture and Morrison, are laughing as they watch. Two New Zealand farmers are watching with complete surprise. Refers to New Zealand agriculture. Extended Title - "I could always raise a laugh in any British audience by assuring them that the try that Wales was alleged to have scored in 1905 was not a try at all. They all remembered the All Blacks." - Hon Walter Nash. Quantity: 1 Laser copy. Physical Description: Laser copy, A4 size.

Date: 1967

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-13-220

Description: The prime minister of Great Britain, Harold Macmillan, is using a strong light and his hands to throw a shadow which is the president of France, Charle de Gaulle, on the wall, for the New Zealand Minister of Overseas Trade, Jack Marshall, to practise boxing against. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on newspaper cutting, 150 x 210 mm. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1950

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-02-058

Description: Shows Mr T C Webb pushing against the stones of Mt Eden prison, so forcefully that he makes a hole in the wall, and the prisoners and guards look on in surprise. Published in the Auckland herald on 3 November 1950. Other Titles - "I intend to throw all my wieght behind the proposal to shift the Auckland Gaol from Mt Eden" - Mr Webb. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 145 x 225 mm.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-030

Description: Tom Shand, New Zealand Minister of Mines and of Electricity, is holding a bottle from which a genie, labelled Kapuni, is emerging to the alarm of watching men labelled power boards and coal. Mount Taranaki is in the background. Extended Title - Kapuni. Power Boards. Coal. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 291 x 397 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1956 - 1960

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association; Craig, George, 1914-1996

Reference: A-349-001/005

Description: Cartoons by Lodge and Minhinnick on the 1956 Olympic games in Melbourne and the 1960 games in Rome. Quantity: 5 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, various sizes. Provenance: The collection was put together by Mr George Craig, Secretary of the Association

Date: 1951

From: [Various cartoonists including Sir Gordon Minhinnick 1902-1992] :[Newspaper clippings of cartoons from New Zealand newspapers. 15 December 1948 to 5 September 1972.]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Auckland Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-549-q-03-055

Description: Shows the leader of the watersiders' strike, who twirls his baton, and notices that the rest of the band has turned right instead of left, and is playing the "Back to work quickstep". This refers to the fact that the Wellington Waterside Silver Band was set to break its association with the deregulated Wellington Waterside Workers' Union. Published in the Auckland herald on 3 April 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) newspaper clipping. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping 140 x 215 mm.

Date: 1981

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Hodgson, Trace, 1958-; Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Dominion (Newspaper); Press (Christchurch, N.Z.); New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-691-001/004

Description: Cartoons by Eric Heath (Dominion, 3 Feb 1981), Trace Hodgson (The Press, 2 Feb 1981), Nevile Lodge (Evening Post, 2 Feb 1981) and Gordon Minhinnich (New Zealand Herald, 3 Feb 1981), all relating to the incident on 1 February 1981 when the Australian team beat the New Zealand team at cricket by bowling underarm. Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies from newspaper

Date: 1962

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Kaspar, Fey (Mrs), active 2006; Kaspar, Kees, -2005

Reference: A-352-052

Description: Cartoon strip shows a man contemplating buying miniature turtles; however the purchase would mean getting them purged for hydatids. Instead he applies for a job purging Auckland city rolls, believing this to relate to Rolls Royce cars. He is annoyed to find that he has a desk job examining the city's electoral rolls. Probably a newspaper clipping. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on newsprint, 122 x 204 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by donor's husband, Mr Kees Kaspar, CEO of the New Zealand Hydatids Council (d 2005)

Date: 1983

From: Various cartoonists :[Cartoons collected by Jim Anderton, 1970s-2011]

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: B-197-037

Description: Shows Jim Anderton knocking John Kirk backwards out of his seat (labelled 'Sydenham') by pressing a button on the side of the chair. David Lange looks on in bewilderment. Refers to July 1983, when John Kirk announced that he would not seek the Labour Party's nomination for Sydenham in the 1984 election. In his place Labour selected Jim Anderton, the party president, whereupon Kirk (a strong David Lange supporter) declared that he would stand against the official Labour candidate as an independent. His continuing opposition to Anderton's selection resulted in the Labour Party's New Zealand Council suspending him from membership of the Labour Party Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - NZ Herald, 9.8.83 [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, marker pen and letratone on card, 280 x 440 mm (image)

Date: 1973 - 1974

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: C-168-005

Description: Shows the Christchurch Commonwealth Games torch-bearer running into the packed arena, watched closely by smiling onlookers. As he runs into the arena, a workman with a can of paint and a ladder on his shoulder runs out another opening in the stadium. Possibly alludes to the stadium building being completed only just in time for the Games to begin Other Titles - 10th Other Titles - Tenth Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, 400 x 600 mm on sheet 425 x 620 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Ephemera (Eph-D-LOCAL-Christchurch-1971/1973); other items transferred to Manuscripts, Photographic Archive and published collections.

Date: 1935 - 1940

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: A-091-064

Description: Prime Minister Michael Savage and Minister of Education Peter Fraser, each wearing a 'W.E.A' tie, are greeted 'G'day Mick!' and 'Howdy Pete!' by two men in the street. The greeting seems to offend Savage and Fraser who call the men 'cads'. Text reads 'The Prime Minister and several members of cabinet were at one time members of W.E.A. classes - it might not be a bad thing for our opponents if they were to go to W.E.A. classes now, but it might be a very dangerous thing for us if they did. Perhaps we should lay down a condition for a subsidy that you will not admit ex-cabinet ministers. Hon P. Fraser, Minister of Education.' Context: Suggests anxiety about class origins by the PM and Minister of Education. Handwritten in ink on verso 'Original by Minhinnick (Auckland) in one of Wellington newspapers about 1932'. Librarian questions that date as Savage was PM from 1935 to 1940 which is clearly when the cartoon was drawn. There is also an address handwritten in ink on verso 'V.G. Newman, 40A Wright St., Wellington. April/64'. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1971 - 1974

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992

Reference: B-187-001

Description: Shows Neville Pickering(?) relaxing in a garden on a deck chair. Over the fence, two men (possibly Sir Dove-Myer Robinson and Frank Kitts) are shaking a plum tree, and Robinson raises a spade in anger. The tree has a single fruit ('the Games') which looks set to fall into Pickering's garden Christchurch hosted the 10th Commonwealth Games in 1974, with Pickering in place as Mayor at the time Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick / NZ Herald, 16.11.71 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 277 by 413 mm on sheet 390 x 495 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Ephemera (Eph-D-LOCAL-Christchurch-1971/1973); other items transferred to Manuscripts, Photographic Archive and published collections.