1851: Rangiora’s First House
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
1851, First house in Rangiora is built by Charles Torlesse who died 152 years ago yesterday, 14 November 1866. I like old Charlie just based on his record for exploring, pioneering, and surveying. Spends his New Years Day (1849) climbing up a mountain which is just the sort of thing I’d do except in his […]
Read more..November 15, 2018
Re-Extinincted Swan
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Curator of vertebrates, Alan Tennyson, discusses new findings published today that New Zealand and the Chatham Islands had their own unique prehistoric swan. – Te Papa blog “Another extinct bird: New Zealand’s prehistoric swan” Seems like old news to me because I was already aware of extinct native swan, eagle, crow, and dogs. Check out any old […]
Read more..November 15, 2018
Buying Kiwi Made Tax
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Remember when you’re out buying tax at your petrol station, your supermarket, your workplace, and everywhere, that all our tax is New Zealand made. Our tax-makers use 100% ethically sourced and locally made tax. When you buy any of our taxes you’re protecting the workers who make the brands you know and love. The proceedes of […]
Read more..November 13, 2018
The New Zealand Student Media is Just as Gutless as the Mainstream Media
By VJM
It’s rare for a Kiwi to look towards the New Zealand media establishment with reverence or even anything approaching respect, on account of that the profession is little more than a bunch of corporate whores cheerleading for neoliberalism. Even so, it is sometimes astonishing to learn quite how gutless the New Zealand media is, as […]
Read more..November 13, 2018
1907: Taxes Spent on State Weather Control Scheme
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand Government Experiments in Weather Control In the 1906/07 drought the people of North Otago were getting pretty desperate for the rains to return. Scientists well understood that condensation depended upon cooling, not percussive blasts. Today we can daily witness jet planes overhead compressing the air with sharp wings but even this produces the faint […]
Read more..November 13, 2018
Free Petrol with Every Tax Purchased
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Want some petrol with your tax? On sale now! Buy some tax at a petrol station outlet near you and receive this free gift of petrol. That’s right, for every dollar of tax you buy receive 53 cents worth of petrol. That’s amazing value! Customers who enjoy their gift of free petrol also […]
Read more..November 12, 2018
1918: The Truth about the Influenza Epidemic
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Historian discusses what we can learn from our deadliest pandemic Stephen Clarke discusses no such thing as, once again, heading bares no relation to content in Mainstream Media. As a Volunturist, Libertarian, Free Market, Anarchist, historian I can tell you what he will not. Perhaps cannot. Why? Because I’m not willing to protect The State. […]
Read more..November 12, 2018
We Sincerely Apologise For Our Negligence
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Bfm News Director repudiates Anarchist History of New Zealand Having called on me last week to contribute, Auckland’s radio Bfm radio have flip-flopped. During Anti-Government Week to have an actual Anarchist briefly aired makes perfect sense yet in these Politically Correct times it’s seldom contemplated. Sure enough, within days, they were repenting this interview. NB: […]
Read more..November 11, 2018
1909: Blown to Atoms
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Exploding Auckland 108 Years Ago: 1:20pm, 10 November 1909… A huge explosion in Auckland Harbour from the gelignite storage ship in Herne Bay. To manage the risk of exactly this sort of thing, Auckland Harbour Board stored their explosive powder on an old hulk. A hulk is a sort of undead ship that has passed her […]
Read more..November 10, 2018
1898: The Kumi, A Taniwha on the Loose!
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Taniwha September, 1898: Newspapers around New Zealand became excited by the claim that a “strange lizard” had startled a bushfeller out the back of Gisbourne. The fact this tale of a woodsman comes from an unnamed source sets off red flags for sceptics! As the story echoed around the wire it became embellished to “huge” […]
Read more..November 10, 2018
1972: The West Auckland Booze Monopoly Cartel
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Sale of Alcohol is Monopolised by a Cartel In West Auckland there remains one of the last New Zealand Liquor Trusts. All sale of alcohol is monopolised by a cartel which owns hotels, bars, and outlet stores. They take their cut but need to justify it somehow so they put some of their ill-gotten gains […]
Read more..November 9, 2018
Do We Need A National White Guilt Day?
By VJM
Pressure on white people to acknowledge their collective racial guilt continues to grow. Various people in New World countries are agitating for their respective nations to have a day of remembrance for settler massacres or other colonial atrocities that took place in their nations. Suggestions like the one to ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous People’s […]
Read more..November 7, 2018
