The Battle for Karoro
By NZB3
This notice about somebody’s wayward wheely bin raised an interesting and essential conversation on social media this week. Do you deal with problems face-to-face with people down your street or do you put out an impersonal bulletin to all the district? Is it time to be Personal or Institutional? This sort of thing is of […]
Read more..December 31, 2020
1863: The Sparrow and the Eagle
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In the Waikato of 1863 there was competition in the newsprint media market for the Maori reader. In short, one paper was called The Eagle and the other The Sparrow. The contest of ideas ended when affiliates of the former newspaper came to kill the editor, sacked the offices. ‘The Eage’, or Te Hokioi, was […]
Read more..December 31, 2020
1430: When Eagle Was Sovereign
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Mighty sky predator: Haast’s Eagle. Speciality: bi-pedal prey. 600 years extinct due to running out of moa to prey upon. By First Contact, Maoris had only the vaguest knowledge that either the eagle or the moa had existed. The people who were in New Zealand before, the Moa Hunters, would have known both of […]
Read more..December 30, 2020
1901: One Tree Hill
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Statist History has not been kind to Auckland’s greatest benefactor and most prominent figure, The Father of Auckland, Dr John Logan Campbell. On 11 June, 1901, Campbell gave to New Zealanders some of his best land, One Tree Hill, a self-financing domain he named Cornwall Park. This arrangement also administered over the public land of […]
Read more..December 29, 2020
1866: Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This day in history, 28 December, 1866, the first Rangiora A&P Show was held by the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association. The Association and the Show are still going today. However, the 2020 show was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Moral Panic. “Canterbury Superintendent William Sefton Moorhouse, and several other Christchurch dignitaries arrived by way […]
Read more..December 28, 2020
1900: Maori Councils
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Richard Seddon’s Liberal Government, in 1900, had a Maori problem on several fronts. Each of these was neatly solved in Machiavellian fashion by the passing of the Maori Councils Act (1900.)¹ Problem: Annoying Maoris who wanted political power in their own lives. Self-autonomy! Problem: A Maori King Movement, the Kingitanga, seeking political power Problem: The […]
Read more..December 27, 2020
1879: The Canterbury Riots
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, Boxing Day, 26 December, 1879, was a day of violence. In Timaru and Christchurch, the sectarian hatred native to Ireland had transplanted itself all the way to New Zealand. Vicious sectarian rioting was commonplace between the Catholic and Protestant working class from which new immigrants to New Zealand were drawn in the […]
Read more..December 26, 2020
Hate Incident
By NZB3
Here’s a new level of madness in the modern-day Puritanism that is our Victimhood Culture era: The Hate Incident. I remember when “hate crime” came on the scene. Watching a film from 2016, Angry Birds, this seems quaint now as we’ve moved on through “hate speech” and escalated to “hate incident.” Offence Inflation has now […]
Read more..December 25, 2020
1906: The Maori Communistic System
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In October 1905 a young Dr Peter Buck was appointed as a Native Health Officer in the Liberal Government’s Department of Public Health. He was responsible for a vast patch of territory around Taranaki and Wanganui. The Department wanted the young graduate for his intelligence and specialist knowledge but also because he was a relatable […]
Read more..December 24, 2020
1949: We Want To Help Britain
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Prime Minister’s Christmas Message to Britain, 1949. New Zealand’s National 1.0 finally came to power a few days before Christmas in 1949¹. PM Sydney Holland had been waiting in Opposition such a long time. The little clip is completely composed of vague, empty, politician-speak but signals friendship and support for the British Empire. It may […]
Read more..December 23, 2020
1907: Emotional Insanity
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Lionel Terry was not a New Zealander but he wanted to do something for New Zealand, and the Western World as a whole back in 1905. Brenton Tarrant had the same sentiments in 2019. Both men sought to ‘wake up’ the country they were passing through and had concluded that an object lesson was needed; […]
Read more..December 22, 2020
1941: New Zealand Standards Council
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The New Zealand Standards Institute, today known as Standards New Zealand, has had three ‘Standards Mark’ logos that I have been able to find. It is, and has always been, an attempt by Central Government to control those who may be productive in society by being the arbiter of whose goods and services meet “standards.” […]
Read more..December 21, 2020
