1957: Only That Your Words Will Live
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
For Kevin Ireland, a J.K.Baxter poem (1957/58) I approve Baxter’s anarchistic warning to his friend Kevin. Beware the praise of state, corrupt culture, New Zealand society. AKA- The Lion-headed incubus! It is correct to observe that the philosophers and poets whose words endure are the ones that the state finds a use for as propaganda. Praise […]
Read more..June 14, 2019
1898: Methodist Chapel West Auckland
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Christmas 1898, Henderson, West Auckland: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel open for business. The first church building in Henderson district. You can count on a Methodist to build a church where others would have been content to get by with a barn or a community hall. The Wesleyan brand relied upon bright and shiny, temporal, things […]
Read more..June 13, 2019
The Golden Right, or The Masculine Aspect of the Precious Right
By VJM
The essay A Sevenfold Conception of Inherent Human Rights expounded seven human rights that are, after a minimum of thought, clearly understandable to any person. These seven rights stem immediately from a basic understanding of yin and yang, and are encoded directly into the flag of Esoteric Aotearoanism. This essay takes a closer look at […]
Read more..June 13, 2019
1932: Robert McDougall Art Gallery
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Seventeen years have gone by since the Robert McDougall Art Gallery was cast out. After 70 years of service, The State pulled the plug on her. The Robert McDougall Art Gallery closed its doors on 16th June 2002 – the 70th anniversary of its opening.- Disco Built on Biscuits McDougall himself was a Christchurch Prince […]
Read more..June 13, 2019
1848: The Kemp Deed
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
171 Years ago today: 12 June, 1848: The Kemp Deed was signed at Akaroa with 40 leading Maoris. For the Crown, Henry Tacy Kemp. This is the big purchase of today’s Canterbury and West Coast. Kemp had assembled 500 Maori at Akaroa, including picking up the principle chiefs who lived in Otago on the HMS […]
Read more..June 12, 2019
1866: Mangatapu Murders
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history: 12 June.. The 1866 Mangatapu Murders have been a controversial subject since they happened. Usually I’d venture an opinion about what really happened but it all seems too circumstantial and endlessly trawled over that my enthusiasm isn’t rising to it. “Now a Christchurch author controversially says his research indicates the Supreme Court […]
Read more..June 11, 2019
Good Nationalism and Bad Nationalism, Good Globalism and Bad Globalism
By VJM
Leo Tolstoy wrote, at the start of Anna Karenina, that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. Any occultist who understands that law of “as above, so below” also understands that this rule of Tolstoy’s also holds true for individuals – and for nations. Unhappiness expresses itself in […]
Read more..June 10, 2019
1883: Utakura
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Maori settlement of Utakura Valley goes way back in time to antiquity. The Utakura River leads down to the very handy navigable waterway of the Hokianga. In 1819 the famous missionaries Marsden and Kendall visited, returning again the following year¹. They had their work cut out for them converting these Nga Puhi people to peace. […]
Read more..June 10, 2019
The Negrification of the New Zealand Maori
By VJM
The New Zealand Maori is in a much better position than 120 years ago. Before World War One, many people did not expect Maoris to survive for much longer, or expected them to wind up in a condition as wretched as that of the Australian Aborigine or North American Indian. Through will and intelligence, he […]
Read more..June 8, 2019
1832: Siege of Otaka
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Taranaki Maori faced the greatest apocalyptic disaster in their history over the fighting season of 1831/2. Their old enemy from the north, the Waikato Maoris, were on the war path again. This time it would be for keeps. With no Ngati Toa allies in the south to protect them (Te Rauparaha had moved on) they […]
Read more..June 8, 2019
1903: Hokitika Town Clock
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This week in history: Hokitika, 3 June 1903, 1.05pm and 1.15pm: The unveiling of the new Hokitika Town Clock. Also a commemoration of the new King, Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (better change that name to Windsor before WW1 buck’o…). Especially, to me at least, it is a memorial to Premier Seddon’s bloody politicking by involving us in […]
Read more..June 7, 2019
1866: Te Kooti sent to Chatham Islands
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This week in history: 5 June 1866…. Nothing shows how adverse you are to your brother’s gang cult than associating with them, being taken into custody with them, constructing a new religion for them, leading them in a daring escape from an island prison, and murdering all the defenceless men, women, and children- Settler and […]
Read more..June 6, 2019
