Exports - New Zealand

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Manuscript

Papers relating to economics

Date: [1981-1984]

From: McKinnon, Malcolm A, 1950- : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7115-13

Description: Material collected by Christine Dann mostly relating to economic concerns. Includes fiche of New Zealand exports and re-exports to the rest of the world by country (June 1984); papers re trade and export, CAFCA and related topics Also includes `Indochina report' (n1, Jun 1972) Other Titles - Foreign control watchdog (n54 Nov 1986) Other Titles - Indochina report (n1 Jun 1972) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade :A key piece, New Zealand. Produc...

Date: 1988 - 1993

By: New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade; New Zealand. Department of Survey and Land Information

Reference: Eph-D-TRADE-1990-01

Description: Shows a world map in the form of a jigsaw, with pieces for United Kingdom, Italy, New Zealand, Japan and California still to be put in place. The statistics of land area for each of these regions is given; all are comparable to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Offset lithograph, 595 x 840 mm.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Fog upsets air services. Take off flight 1962. 7 June ...

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-137-533

Description: An aeroplane representing 'parliament' is being flown by Prime Minister Holyoake; pinned to the co-pilot's seat is a note reading 'Gone for weather report - Jack'. A huge layer of fog appears above the plane and everyone looks anxious. Across the fog are the letters 'E.C.M.' (European Common Market) which is the cause of the anxiety and the fog. Jack Marshall had 'gone for a weather report' - Jack Marshall was Minister of Overseas Trade - during the 1960s he repeatedly visited Britain and EEC capitals to try to get continued access for New Zealand goods to the British market. He tried to get 'special treatment' for New Zealand in Britain's eventual EEC agreement. Britain joined the EEC in 1971. The ECM soon became the EEC (European Economic Community). Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on card, 255 x 380mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[27 newsclippings of cartoons published in the Evening Post from ...

Date: 1988

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-733-097/123

Description: Newsclippings of cartoons on New Zealand and international politics. Quantity: 27 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newsclippings, various sizes.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :"I gather it's a ploy to make any loss of face over a ...

Date: 1978

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-135-793

Description: Shows a corridor in parliament with Muldoon greeting two Japanese men who have come to discuss trade and fishing. One of the Japanese is Ichiro Nakagawa, the Japanese Minister of Agriculture. Muldoon and the Japanese are wearing face masks to make, as the caption says, 'loss of face....as painless as possible'. Refers to the several years of friction between the two countries over NZ beef exports to Japan and Japanese fishing in New Zealand's economic zone. Muldoon invited Nakagawa to Wellington for talks which resulted in a treaty which came into effect in September 1981. Extended Title - Fish-for-trade talks Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, crayon and white gouache, 450 x 320 mm

Manuscript

Frankl, Johann, d 1996 : Papers relating to his business

Date: [1950-1986]

By: Frankl, Johann, 1904-1996

Reference: MS-Group-0552

Description: Comprises correspondence, financial records, tax returns (including descriptions of overseas travel to buy goods), catalogues of stock sought and carried, stock sold, wages books and other papers relating to Frankl and his wife, Olga's, business, The Cadeau, in Wellington, and their export-import business, Crest, for the years ca 1950-1986 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 8 box(es) (58 issuable items). 3 volume(s). 5 folder(s). 2.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Programmes for Wellington theatrical and musical productions (1940-1980).

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Henry P Hughes & Sons Ltd :No 1 sold by auction by Henry P Hughes & Sons at the Wool Ex...

Date: 1911

By: Henry P. Hughes & Sons (Firm); Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-WOOL-1911-01

Description: Wool auction catalogue including 2959 bales of New Zealand wool, 6 bales of Warehouse Sweepings, 4 bales English wool, and 2208 bales Australian wool. Venues for the auction appear to have been: Henry P Hughes, Messrs Thomas Gooch & Sons (St George Street), Messrs C H Cousens & Co (73 Leman Street), Wool Floor at F Warehouse St Katharine Dock, and Messrs Browne & Eagle's Ltd Warehouse at Back Church Lane. Previously owned by J Arnold esq of Cambridge, the seller of lot 370 at the wool sale. Several sellers are listed, including TW (Tutaenui), CB 2, Bowron Bros, Claverley, U2, NZ&ALCo Midkin, Tereteha, Hukaroa, Popauma, JM at Otau, JJC at Waikare, WA at Awaroa, Te Maara, Glen Murray, but most are represented only by initials. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 44 pages, unstapled, 320 x 170 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by J Arnold esq of Cambridge, the seller of lot 370 at the wool sale. Transfers: Photographs of the same provenance transferred to PAColl-8757..

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Crimp, Daryl 1958- :Survey; Fish shops not selling fresh fish. Where can I be sure of b...

From: Crimp, Daryl 1958- :Cartoons entered in the 1993 Qantas Media Awards

Reference: A-299-011

Description: Shows a man in a fish shop holding a newspaper and asking the shop owner about an article on the front page. The shop owner is standing behind a counter with a till on it and there are displays of seafood for sale next to him. Refers to fish shops being warned to watch the freshness of their produce after the Consumer magazine survey found poor quality in service outlets. Also suggests that the best fish caught in New Zealand is being exported to South East Asia. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

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'Well, hell Jim - whoever said mountain warfare was easy?'

Date: 1990

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

By: NZ Truth (Newspaper)

Reference: A-453-004

Description: Shows Prime Minister Jim Bolger, Labour leader Mike Moore and Deputy Labour leader Helen Clark as soldiers diving for cover as they are shot at from the top of a mountain of foodstuffs. The food is European in origin and they are being shot at by stereotypical figures representing members of the European Union. Refers to European Union agriculture protectionism. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - E.U AGRICULTURAL PROTECTIONISM 1990 [in pen]; Verso - centre - 63% TRUTH P15 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and developer on Duoshade card, 300 x 395 mm

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Lynch, James, 1947-:'We had to make a few minor concessions... but in the end we got a ...

Date: 1982

From: Lynch, James, 1947-:Collection of original cartoons by James Lynch.

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-186-095

Description: Shows Prime Minister Rob Muldoon dressed as a Muslim cleric. In the background is the Beehive with a Muslim onion dome on the top. Rows of people face towards Mecca and pray to Allah. Text in the top left reads 'Big lamb deal with Iran signed!' Rob Muldoon reports that in the end they got a good deal, praise be to Allah, after being obliged to make a few concessions. Context: Iran had just recently become an officially Islamic state and was still something of a pariah nation after the US Embassy seige and hostage- taking of the previous year. But with our EEC quotas shrinking, we were desperate for someone to buy our produce and Iran had lots of oil money. (Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 280 x 360 mm

Audio

Interview with David Sayers

Date: 4,5 Apr 1999 - 04 Apr 1999 - 05 Apr 1999

From: `Back to the drawing board' - Hamilton architects oral history project

By: Sayers, David Alan, 1931-2012; Corcoran, Fiona, active 1999

Reference: OHInt-0483-15

Description: David Sayers was born in Surrey, England in 1931. Describes how his father was an interior designer and his mother was a draughtswoman. Mentions the encouragement of his art teacher and sponsorship to the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Talks about visiting lecturers including Frank Lloyd Wright. Discusses working for a New Zealand architect in England, Reg Uren, his influence and suggestion that David Sayers work in New Zealand. Mentions his marriage in 1953. Mentions that Reg Uren later returned to live in New Zealand. Describes coming to New Zealand and being met in Wellington by Public Works Department architects Jack Wight and Frank Turner. Mentions Jock Beere and Gordon Wilson. Recalls the `Tomato House', a `temporary' World War I building still used by the Ministry of Works in the 1960s. Describes living at Rongotai until the construction of the airport. Talks about going to Hamilton to work for Frank Gillman, previously in business with his father E.E. Gillman, and then in partnership with Doug Angus and Paul Marks. Describes the growth of the firm, as the result of work on the Tauranga Hospital and for the Waikato Hospital Board, which became Gillman, Garry, Clapp and Sayers on amalgamation with Peter (Ian) Garry and Rex Clapp. Mentions work for the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company. Comments on the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) fixed fee structure. Mentions his role in developing a computerised coding system for contract documentation. Discusses the impact of the university on the town of Hamilton and a seminar on the development of the city. Talks about work in Rarotonga in projects funded by New Zealand aid and in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Describes a request by WHO to assist on a book on the planning of district hospitals. Mentions that the firm opened a branch in Palmerston North and later in Auckland as a result of extensive hospital work in both areas. Describes also working for Nelson, Wairau and Northland Hospital Boards. Comments on working for the Department of Health and hospital boards. Discusses current health service provision in New Zealand. Mentions work for the Waikato Polytechnic and on buildings for the kiwifruit industry. Describes going to London and hiring six architects. Comments on change in the firm as the result of rapid growth and not wanting to do management work. Mentions that there were fourteen partners in the firm which became Gillman Partners. Describes how they bought a dairy farm at Katikati. Recalls the work of Kelvin Prince who did sun frame printing for the firm. Describes retirement between 1982 and 1984 and the amalgamation of Gillman Partners with Worleys. Discusses his involvement in the kiwifruit industry and the production of organic kiwifruit under the Biogro label. Describes the decision by the Kiwifruit Authority to ban the export of organic kiwifruit, fighting this decision and the costs involved. Describes selling the orchard to DFC and his disillusionment with the planning process. Comments on planning in terms of architecture. Describes working on his family property and writing novels and poetry. Interviewer(s) - Fiona Corcoran Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3106.

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Interview with Terence Dunleavy

Date: 20 Jun 2000

From: Vintage years - the wine industry in New Zealand

By: Dunleavy, Terence John, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0535/4

Description: Terry Dunleavy was born in Te Awamutu in 1928. Describes his family's moves to Hamilton and Auckland. Talks about his father working in hotels and running the Dominion Breweries shop. Describes attending Sacred Heart College in Auckland, a welding apprenticeship at Ellis Hardy Symington, a cadetship at State Advances Corporation and joining the Air Force before getting a job at the North Wairarapa Herald in Pahiatua. Talks about the editor Sandy Powell, local stories covered and becoming editor and manager himself. Mentions Keith Holyoake. Describes meeting and marrying kindergarten teacher Margaret Eising, his interest in sports journalism and getting a job with the `New Zealand Sportsman'. Mentions journalists and sports people at the Commercial Hotel. Describes an offer to run a small newspaper and printing business in Apia, Samoa, leaving Auckland in 1951 and spending seven years there. Talks about the birth of five of their children there, the newspaper's coverage and businessman Eugene Paul. Recalls a role in a Hollywood movie with Gary Cooper,` Return to paradise', while in Samoa. Refers to Aggie's Hotel. Recalls returning to New Zealand for the childrens' education. Discusses involvement in the National Party as chair of the Island Bay electorate. Describes moving to Napier to work for the Martin Printing Company and standing unsuccessfully as a candidate in the Napier electorate in 1969. Recalls printing labels for the wine industry and beginning to work for Montana. Discusses the three wine organisations in existence, including the Wine Council and lobbying the government for the Wine Institute. Mentions Frank Yukich, George Mazuran, Alex Corban, Tom McDonald and Mate Brajkovich. Recalls the wines Bernkaisler, Pearl and Cold duck and Montana's move towards making varietal table wines. Talks about Tom McDonald of McWilliams' experimentation with cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay. Comments on the emergence of wine writers, wine tasting in London and the idenitification of a New Zealand style by London tasters. Recalls the purchase of land by Montana in Marlborough and planting of muller thurgau, riesling, cabernet, pinotage and chardonnay grapes. Recalls lobbying the government about taxes on the wine industry. Mentions Robert Muldoon, George Green, Bernie Galvin and Lance Adams Schenider. Discusses the change in winemaking regulations in 1982. Describes becoming the chief executive of the Wine Institute. Discusses the 1986 grape pull. Mentions Brierleys, Bruce Hancox, Roger Douglas, David Lange and McWilliams. Recalls the involvement of corporates including DFC, the breweries and Brierleys in the industry. Mentions mergers. Discusses his role in arranging export activities. Refers to the Labour Government, Mike Moore, Tradenz and the formation of the New Zealand Wine Guild. Discusses the founding of the Food and Beverage Exporters Council and New Zealand participation in the London Wine Trade Fair in 1987. Discusses the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act and wine in supermarkets. Mentions Bryan Moggridge and Philip Gregan. Describes setting up his own vineyard, Te Motu, on Waiheke Island and the first vintage in 1993. Mentions his sons. Discusses setting up the industry magazine `New Zealand grapegrower and winemaker'. Talks about the lowering of the drinking age to eighteen and the Wine Institute support for ALAC in its advisory role. Interviewer(s) - Janice Aplin Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3117.

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[Ephemera of octavo size relating to trade fairs and industries fairs. 1950-1969]

Date: 1950-1969

Reference: Eph-A-TRADE-FAIRS-1950/1969

Description: Includes: 1954? Wanganui Industrial Fair. 24 August - 3 September [1954?]. Souvenir programme and catalogue 1957: New Zealand Industries Fair. Christchurch, 9-25 May 1957. Official programme 1961: New Zealand International Trade Fair, Wellington, 22 August - 9 September 1961. Official brochure 1962: New Zealand Industries Fair. Canterbury Court, Christchurch, 16 August - 1 September 1962. Pamphlet showing layout of stalls 1966: West Coast Industries Fair 1966. West Coast fourteenth Industrial and Agricultural Fair, Victoria Park, Greymouth, 3-5 March 1966. Programme 1967: United States Exhibition. New Zealand International Trade Fair, 17 August - 2 September 1967. Booklet 1967: New Zealand International Trade Fair 1967. Registration card for special trade days, 17-18 August 1967 (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers, pamphlets, booklets

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Leopard Brewery Ltd.: [Leopard Lager Beer bottle neck labels. 1970-1980s]

Date: 1970-1985

From: Ruffell, Trevor (Collector): [Collection of beer coasters and beer labels. 1970-1980s]

Reference: Eph-A-ALCOHOL-Labels-Ruffell-2

Description: Includes neck labels from bottle of: Angus ale (2 copies) Blue Heron Hotel Lager Beer Brent's Hotel, Rotorua New Zealand Lager Beer (2 copies) Burma Motor Lodge De Luxe Leopard Lager (2 copies) De Luxe Leopard Lager. Simmental Cattle Breeders' Society of N.Z. Duke of Marlborough Hotel Russell. Duke's Own Lager Beer Game Bar, Bay View Hotel Lager Beer Geyserland Lager Beer (2 copies) Imported Leopard Lager Beer, imported by Federl [sic] Dist. Co. Inc., Brown Deer Wisconsin Imported Leopard Lager Beer, imported by Kiwikai Imports Inc. Minneapolis Minnesota Imported Leopard Lager Beer, imported by Somerset Dist Inc., Long Beach, California Imported Leopard Lager Beer, imported by Wholesalers, Fargo, North Dakota Leopard Deluxe Lager Beer (with photo of Lake Matheson) Leopard Lager Beer Napier Centennial Lager Beer 1874-1975 (2 copies) New Zealand Country Life Lager Beer (2 copies) Solway Park Hotel Lager Beer Stokes Valley Motor Lodge Lager Beer Travelodge Motor Inn, Rotorua New Zealand (2 copies) Waitomo Hotel (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Relief prints and photolithographs on labels, sizes varying

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Whakatane Paper Mills Ltd :The directors of Whakatane Paper Mills Ltd have pleasure in ...

Date: 1947

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to timber, the timber industry, wood products]

By: Whakatāne Paper Mills Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TIMBER-1947-01

Description: Pamphlet is an invitation to the screening of a documentary film about the gorwing and harvesting of 'pinus insignus', and the Whakatane Paper Mills' economic success and great productivity, and an argument for allowing the company an export permit to sell its products in Sydney. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on pamphlet folded to 152 x 124 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers Ltd in December 2010.

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Lynch, James, 1947-:"Naturally we're all for free trade - with a few minor exceptions o...

Date: 1980

From: Lynch, James, 1947-:Collection of original cartoons by James Lynch.

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-186-006

Description: The cartoon shows four European political leaders cheerfully discussing their commitment to free trade while in the background a grumpy New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon appears as Little Bo-Peep with a sheep representing 'NZ sheep exports'. The four men are members of the E.E.C (European Economic Community) one of them representing 'France'. Refers to New Zealand's difficulties when Britain joined the EEC. New Zealand negotiated concessions (in the form of access quota rights to the British and European markets). The percentage of sheep meat sold to the United Kingdom dropped dramatically. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 275 x 380 mm

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Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :New Zealand expected a rainy day but didn't expect it to rai...

Date: 1958

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-061

Description: A scene in London in heavy rain. On the left stands Clarence Skinner, Minister of Agriculture, holding a broken umbrella, 'farmers reserve fund'. On the right stands British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, holding a sound umbrella, 'state subsidy', over the British farmer and the British housewife. Refers to the disappearance of British protective tariffs for New Zealand produce Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :The eye of the beholder. Evening Post. 6 October 1980.

Date: 1980

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

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

Reference: B-135-657

Description: The scene is an art gallery. The painting on the wall is entitled 'New Zealand'. Two men are extolling the outstanding features of the painting. One of them is Duncan MacIntyre and the other is an art dealer dressed in pin strpe trousers and a bowler hat. Two onlookers are obviously sceptical of the painting's merits. Extended Title - Gisborne. Today (PA) The acting Prime Minister (Mr MacIntyre) today painted a rosy picture of projected world demands for New Zealand farm produce. New Zealand has received a glowing and extremely optimistic write up in one of London's leading money magazines, "Euromoney." Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 455 x 320 mm.

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Scott, Thomas, 1947-:Scientific paradox, NZ spreadable butter encounters huge resistanc...

Date: 1980 - 1989

Reference: B-186-104

Description: Shows a New Zealand farmer wearing gumboots and a black singlet pushing against a huge block of 'New Zealand butter'. On the other side of the butter a British gentleman wearing a bowler hat resists. Context: Problems with exports of butter when Britain joined the EEC. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 295 x 442 mm

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Union members with a cake marking the first birthday of their picket outside the Meat B...

Date: 14 Aug 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1984/3824-F

Description: Union members with a cake marking the first birthday of their picket outside the Meat Board's headquarters in Wellington. From left: Jimmy Woods (secretary of the Seamen's Union), Dave Morgan (president of the Seamen's Union), and Paul Palmer (assistant secretary of the Cooks' and Stewards' Union). Photographs taken on the 14th of August 1984 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Every day for a year, Union members had been protesting that not enough of New Zealand exports were carried by New Zealand ships, and that the use of foreign vessels to carry exports had taken job opportunities for New Zealand seamen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm