1926: The Information Service
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
From the late 1920s New Zealand had a human-based information retrieval system. A telephone internet before Teletext. It was staffed by up to 4 operators using 2 rotary directories and run as a sub-department of the telephone exchange which itself was part of the State’s postal system. The information section of the telephone exchange was […]
Read more..July 14, 2025
1952: Broken Barrier
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Released 10 July, 1952: Broken Barrier. “The film was the first real attempt at a feature film to be produced in New Zealand since the end of World War II.” Ref. Wiki One of the two cameras used was acquired “from a dead German in the Western Desert”. This marks it as the art of […]
Read more..July 10, 2025
1919: Wiremu Pere Monument Unwanted
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
William Halbert (aka Wi Pere) was the son of an Anglo father with many Maori wives including Wi’s mother. Halbert Snr. was compared to Henry VIII in that sense for the chain of women he worked through.¹ Curiously enough, the Wi Pere Trust doesn’t mention the father at all but the maternal history of Riria […]
Read more..July 9, 2025
2001: Randell Cottage Writers Trust
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
A wretched hive of scum and villainy: Randell Cottage Writers Trust (est. 2001) has been cut off from taxpayer funding. How are they going to fund old Leftist authors to spend 6 months of every year writing about how much they hate New Zealand now? How dare anybody stop paying for this quarter century of […]
Read more..July 8, 2025
1863: Six Months with John Hamilton
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
John Hamilton, father of a young family and officer of the Royal Navy, was sent to command HMS Esk in defence of the Colony of New Zealand. Esk arrived here on 3 November 1863. The first major task was The Thames Expedition. HMS Esk and HMS Miranda led the way in establishing a defensive corridor […]
Read more..July 7, 2025
Effect of Cancel Culture
By NZB3
New Zealand culture is still in the throes of Victimhood Culture. (Or, to put a proper clock on it, more toward Slave Culture by this point but that’s another story…) In a Victimhood Culture setting we don’t solve our problems or seek understanding at a personal level we call in an HR boss. So, we […]
Read more..July 6, 2025
1979: Nigger In A Woodpile
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
One day it’s an idiom and next minute it’s Hate Speech and you’re a bug on the windshield of Cancel Culture. “..the first bill that was before statutes revision when I was changed to that committee was matrimonial property and I became a bit of a nigger in a woodpile on that one.” – Marilyn […]
Read more..July 5, 2025
2020: The John Boddy Problem
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In 23 June, 2020, Councillor John Boddy made a comment during a meeting of the Taupo District Council in praise of debt reduction. “But, I’m also going to be the Nigger in the Woodpile…sorry, the Elephant in the Room…” he said. Despite immediate correction and apology Boddy was censured by Mayor David Trewavas and the […]
Read more..July 1, 2025
