1976: Wanganui Computer Centre Act
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Also known as ‘the Kremlin’ and ‘Big Brother,’ Wairere House is where National 3.0 created ‘The Wanganui Computer’ as per the provisions of the Wanganui Computer Centre Act (1976.) New Zealand had never had a centralised national database like this before, and certainly not a computerised one. The data pool drew from Police, Ministry of […]
Read more..September 26, 2022
1955: Tasman Glacier Airstrip
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 22 September, 1955, Harry Wigley made aviation history with a grass take-off and a snow-landing using his retractable-ski plane. A man who looked at Tasman Glacier and saw an airstrip! Wrigley designed the wooden skis himself and was justly rewarded in tourism revenue for the resulting Mount Cook Air Services […]
Read more..September 22, 2022
1873: New Zealand Excessive Legislation Mania Prevention Bill
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 20 September, 1873, the Otago Witness proposed a new law: THE NEW ZEALAND EXCESSIVE LEGISLATION MANIA PREVENTION BILL “PREAMBLE. Whereas the members of the Government, and also: private members of the General Assembly of New Zealand, have all alike been seized with a dangerous mania for crude, needless, or injurious legislation, which […]
Read more..September 20, 2022
1993: Sufferage Day
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 19 September, 1893, the Governor of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, signed off a law for woman’s suffrage. State history records that “women had won the right to vote” and “New Zealand is the first country in the world” to give women their political rights. State history, as per usual, is wrong. New […]
Read more..September 19, 2022
1948: Notornis, I Presume?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Ref. 1948: Notornis, I Presume? Ref. 1989: The Palmer Interlude Post syndicated from http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/podcast/1948-notornis-i-presume/.
Read more..September 18, 2022
2009: Mt Eden’s Cows Removed
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Cattle and sheep grazing on Auckland’s mountains had been a familiar sight for decades, including Mt Eden in Auckland. Instead of keeping the vegetation down at a cost to the ratepayer the cow does the job for free and can even return a profit. After Auckland’s volcanic cones started being stripped of “exotic” flora and […]
Read more..September 16, 2022
Not Allowed To Like History?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Dangerous meme keeps turning up. Full of errors. It reads: “With all due respect, please read this, then read it again. Then teach it to your children and grandchildren.” “History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from. And if it offends you even better, because […]
Read more..September 13, 2022
1872: Cobden Coal Mine
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Interesting watercolor by one of New Zealand’s Prime Ministers, William Fox. Clearly it depicts Brunnerton on the Grey river, upstream of Greymouth. Apparently he visited there in 1872 yet at time of acquisition the Alexander Turnbull Library dated it as 1865. More interesting yet is the title of the picture: ‘Cobden Coal mine. Grey River’ […]
Read more..September 11, 2022
An Anarchist Case for New Zealand Monarchy
By NZB3
I hope that something better comes along, as I’ve written before, because New Zealand having a Queen or a King is not the ideal solution. It’s just that it’s better than all the rest, especially practically speaking. There is a huge sector of our population who still need to be governed by a Boss if […]
Read more..September 9, 2022
1863: Martin Crossing the Delaware
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 4 September, 1863, a remarkable cultural change was marked in New Zealand history. By the evidence of a brave rescue at Delaware Bay, Nelson, Maoris had transitioned from being a Tragic Society to a Therapeutic Society. In other words, they helped rather than pillaged the needy. That was a very great change […]
Read more..September 4, 2022
Writing to the leader of the National Party on puppy-dog stationary
By NZB3
Woke up to a couple of Facebook posts back to back in my feed with a similarity worth sharing. It’s about Slave Culture. The first one, ‘suggested for you’ from a page I don’t follow called Science Humour (image, left.) With 14,000+ shares and 5,000+ comments it is being talked about. What the masses are […]
Read more..September 3, 2022
1941: From Beer Barrels to Beer Tankers
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
From antiquity all the way to just after the Second World War our beer has been transported in wooden barrels. This changed in 1941 and we have the photo of it occurring (left.) Initially the new steel tanker technique was used to get the beer from brewer to bottling plant. It was an idea that […]
Read more..September 2, 2022
