Lola Ridge
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Lola Ridge: A New Zealand Anarchist, but the wrong sort. These lines remind me of nothing so much as Pink Floyd’s lyrics about, and called, ‘Mother’… “When you tell mama You are going to do something great She looks at you As though you were a window She were trying to see through, And say […]
Read more..October 7, 2018
Ripped off in Rotorua
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Rotorua Museum to consign closure to history by 2021 – Stuff; Benn Bathgate, Sep 27 2018 Jokes! In 2006-2011 Rotorua Museum sucked in $$ to extend the building (‘Centennial project’) over 5 years and then…oh-oh…we’re closing it all down because we just remembered earthquakes were a thing! The above article by Benn Bathgate highly resembles the […]
Read more..October 6, 2018
Timaru’s Nazi Tree
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The ‘Hitler Oak’, aka Lovelock Oak, stands at Timaru Boys’ High School. It was gifted as a sapling to, old boy of the school, running champion Jack Lovelock by Nazi Germany. After the 1936 National Socialist Olympic Games in Berlin, Jack came back (see previous post) for a visit bringing the oak. Surprisingly, the tree […]
Read more..October 6, 2018
Oamaru Courthouse
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Reopening of courthouse ‘a great day’ The 1883 Thames St courthouse was closed in late 2011 after being classed as earthquake-prone…A close to $900,000 project to earthquake-strengthen and refurbish the courthouse and its surroundings started in February and was completed this week”- ODT It’s a good question from a commenter on Facebook… Why do the […]
Read more..October 5, 2018
Termination of Westland Hospital
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Day of Shame protest, 1985, Hokitika The end of Westland Hospital. Continuation of yesterday’s post about Reefton Hospital… On this day, Hokitika closes down as a town for half a day to protest the effective closure of their own hospital. As discussed in my previous post, technically the ‘hospital’ would limp along as and old folks […]
Read more..October 5, 2018
Termination of Reefton Hospital
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
c.6 October, 1988: Reefton citizens form a human chain around their hospital. I would love to read more about this whole phenomena of towns being assimilated. And, to write about it too. Regions absorbed into the megalopolis, refusing to be assimilated. A continuation of the Abolition of the Provinces battle from 1876. New Zealand certainly started […]
Read more..October 4, 2018
What More Could Poor Split Enz Do?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Split Enz was a great New Zealand band with a catalogue of many brilliant rock pop songs everyone likes. Along with finding international success they have been a great influence to other major musicians, the arts, and culture of The West. No doubt about it! How to process, then, the fact that in 1978 they […]
Read more..October 3, 2018
Why some Politicians are Starfish
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This makes perfect sense to me about the New Zealand paua. All animals, including New Zealand humans, have a different reproduction strategy depending on life’s stress… “The starfish seemed to stress the pāua, and they released the spawn,” Walker said. “I’ve been doing it for more than three years now and I’m seeing much bigger […]
Read more..October 2, 2018
BLERTA
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This summer but back in October 1973, Bruno Lawrence Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition (BLERTA) kicked off. The group travelled around NZ in their bus, concluding in January 1973 at The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival. They were musicians but more generally artists, including film makers. I remember some old radio talk-back guy who was there saying […]
Read more..October 1, 2018
Kauri dieback
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Here’s how Elsie Locke, Allen Curnow, et al sprayed their feet for Kauri dieback in the 1930s. Considering how prolific the 1930s human foot traffic was it is a wonder this kauri fungus didn’t menace kauri sooner! Not they nor the gum diggers nor the sawyers can be accused of what we are asked to […]
Read more..October 1, 2018
