2012: The End of TVNZ7
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in television history, 30 June, 2012, the plug was pulled on TVNZ7. There were protests that this educational and informative digital channel would be pulled since it was one of the main lures to entice viewers to accept Freeview. I don’t think viewers could articulate quite why TVNZ7 (2008-12) was important to them. My […]
Read more..June 30, 2022
1939: St Andrew’s Blaketown
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
What has happened to Blaketown, Greymouth, and its Anglican Church is a study in how towns die. St Andrew’s Anglican Church (est. 1939) was the accomplishment of a congregation, including a Sunday School, achieved over many decades. Blaketown itself has a claim to being the original center and name for what became Greymouth but which […]
Read more..June 29, 2022
1910: Lauderdale Betrayed by Government
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 28 June, 1910, the SS Lauderdale was evacuated on the Blaketown Beach, Greymouth. It had spent the previous day failing to cross the bar into the Grey River and deciding to call it quits. Remains of the wreck were still there when I visited today at low tide and will be for […]
Read more..June 28, 2022
Matariki, a Government Program est 2001
By NZB3
Had you asked anyone in New Zealand prior to this century what Matariki was they would not be able to tell you. At best, they would recognise it as a place name or the Maori word for the Pleiades cluster. Thanks to about 20 years of propaganda all our school children now know more about […]
Read more..June 24, 2022
1989: The Great Amalgamation
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Local Government Comission (LGC) was formed in 1946 with the agenda of breaking up community government and handing it over to the Executive. The LGC had tried and failed six times over the years. Then came Labour 4.0. Local Government Minister Michael Bassett teamed up with Brian Elwood and steamrolled various districts, boroughs, and […]
Read more..June 20, 2022
1986: Adventure Playground
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This image (left) is of an endangered if not extinct habitat for young New Zealanders that was called an Adventure Playground. This one belongs to the Young Generation X time period at Goodwood School, Cambridge, at a time when it had just 72 pupils. We see rope-swings, old tires, concrete pipes, netting, and the potential […]
Read more..June 13, 2022
1918: Te Paina Marae Raid
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 11 June, 1918, New Zealand Policed raided Te Paina marae at Mercer. They were looking for Maoris to conscript for the Great War. Princess Te Puea had created a refuge at Mercer for the Contentious Objectors and refused to co-operate with the police bust. As the men, often the wrong […]
Read more..June 11, 2022
1869: Opepe
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 7 June, 1869, Te Kooti wiped out 9 of a 14-man contingent of Armed Constabulary at Opepe by ambush. The site is 18km east of Taupo. I looked for it twice before finding it but, as is the way with these things, it wasn’t really that hard in hindsight. As […]
Read more..June 7, 2022
1912: The Kokatahi Band
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand’s Kokatahi Band resembles the 1885 one Marty McFly and Doc Brown discovered in the film Back to the Future III (image, left) and with good reason. Along with the same target time period and same instruments the sound of the movie band and the real life one are quite similar and musically pleasing. […]
Read more..June 3, 2022
