1885: St James hall, Mt Eden
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Poor old St James hall (1885) in Mt Eden, Auckland, is now set for demolition again. Blocked by the Environment Court, the smashing is on again due to an Appeal. The church (1900) and the hall are both wonderful to behold. This Classical and Gothic appreciation was inspiring and new back in its day. Through […]
Read more..December 22, 2018
1818: 200 Years Ago: The first performance of Silent Night
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
What can you say about that? Some incredible staying power to spread about the Western World and endure so long. Most certainly a standard for New Zealanders “About 20 km north of Salzburg in the village of Oberndorf, the Silent Night Chapel (German: Stille Nacht Kapelle) marks the place where the beloved Christmas carol “Silent […]
Read more..December 21, 2018
1977: Jean Batten Came Home
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Kiwi aviatrix Jean Batten climbed the hypergamy ladder to super celebrity in the mid to late 1930s. She never cashed in, dying poor and forgotten from an infected dog bite. At the age of 18 Batten abandoned her former life after the famous Charles Kingsford Smith took her up in his plane. The attention, the […]
Read more..December 20, 2018
The Joy of Tax
By Gekko
This article is typical of the kind of nonsense propaganda put out by brain-rotted zombie tax supporters. A little context for those not in NZ. NZ doesn’t have a formal capital gains tax as already implemented in other countries. The current govt has convened a ‘working group’ to suggest ways to make the tax system […]
Read more..December 20, 2018
The Working Class: Spitting Fascism into the Eye of Death
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This isn’t a post about the birth or the life of the Zealand Working Class, this is one about its imminent death. VJM has written a very logical (as always) essay called Why the New Zealand Working Class is Destined to Turn to Fascism and I’m reacting to it. Although we don’t share the same premises it’s […]
Read more..December 20, 2018
Why the New Zealand Working Class is Destined to Turn to Fascism
By VJM
With the signing of the UN Compact on Migration, the Sixth Labour Government all but assured that the New Zealand working class will turn to fascism. They won’t do so straight away, and many will claim that they won’t do so at all, but the snowball has been set in motion. This essay will explain […]
Read more..December 19, 2018
1920s: The Rise of Four Square stores
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Four Square stores are synonymous with 1950s New Zealand but rose from the mid 1920s to dominate their market for many decades. Only at the beginning of the 1970s did self-service supermarkets displace this old format. Four Square still holds on in small towns as the major provider where the market or logistics run isn’t […]
Read more..December 19, 2018
1859: NZI- Insurance by Compulsion?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The New Zealand Insurance Company, NZI, 1859-1981 (merged) is still trading under the name NZI today. This crest from a 1959 shareholder publication has the moto ‘adverso fortior’, “stronger than adversity”. The tui, kiwi, and dead sheep seem typical indigenous decoration. But is that a fern or speargrass bit of vegetation? That ship up top […]
Read more..December 18, 2018
1863: Butlerian Jihad on Victorian Schooling
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
15th December 1863, First use of New Zealand’s oldest school building (I doubt that). The building is known as ‘Big School’ and still stands in Christ’s College, Christchurch. Designed by James Fitzgerald, who was also editor of The Press newspaper. Last year I read ‘Erewhon’. This, Samuel Butler’s, book was first published in The Press […]
Read more..December 17, 2018
The Correlation Between Diversity And Poverty
By VJM
A 2003 article in the Journal of Economic Growth quantified the degree of ethnic and cultural diversity in the various nations of the world, making a range of statistical analyses possible. For this article, we did a study to calculate the correlation between the ethnic fractionalisation index given in the linked article and GDP per […]
Read more..December 14, 2018
1642: Dutch Discovery of New Zealand
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
376 Years Ago: Abel Tasman sights the South Island(13/12/1642) It is the West Coast of the South Island in general, and the Grey District in particular, that was discovered first by the Dutchman. A few days later this month, December, Tasman will discover Moordenaers Baij (Murderer’s Bay)…which did not go so well for the visitors. […]
Read more..December 14, 2018
1904: No Santa Gifts for Maoris
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
White Western Patriarchy thwarted in act of colonising tangata whenua! Santa Claus Dilemma: Where is the Chimney? Artist E F Hiscocks – 24/12/1904 Ref. New Zealand Graphic; madoncollections.com Post syndicated from http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/1904-no-santa-gifts-for-maoris/.
Read more..December 13, 2018
