1985: Refinery to Auckland Pipeline
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This month in New Zealand history, June, 1985, the Refinery to Auckland Pipeline (RAP) was officially opened. Just as the blood vessels sustain the life force of a living organism, the RAP served as conduits, channeling the vital energy of refined petroleum products from the Marsden Point Refinery to the heart of Auckland, nurturing the […]
Read more..June 6, 2023
1979: Country Courthouse Culling
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 11 October, 1979, Minister of Justice Jim McLay (National 3.0) dropped the axe on 24 of New Zealand’s country courthouses. Among the fallen was Waimate’s Magistrate’s Court building built in the same year Waimate was proclaimed a borough: 8 September 1879.¹ Many of the other local courthouses were heritage buildings too and at the […]
Read more..June 4, 2023
1862: Warden’s Courts
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Warden’s Courts were established as early as 1862 to administer property rights over miners’ claims. They ran all the way up to late March 1973. Kirk’s Labour 3.0 Ministry abolished them. By this time the main business would have been granting mining and prospecting rights and collecting the applicant’s fees. “..the amount of work before […]
Read more..June 3, 2023
1925: Ratana Church Goes Public
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history (31 May 1925) Wiremu Ratana publicly proclaimed his church: Ratana Church. The Anglican Church that Ratana had broken away from responded by excommunicating him and his followers. On this day Ratana Church went public but had been up and running since William’s (Wiremu’s) delirious stage in his influenza fever of 1918. Ref. […]
Read more..May 31, 2023
1991: Edmund Hillary in Orewa
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Visit Orewa and you’ll soon find this 1991 statue of Edmund Hillary (left.) But if you’re like me you’ll wonder what possible business this very non-mountainous seaside town has to do with him and….you’ll be disappointed. Zip’o. Maybe Hillary’s father visited and performed some landscaping tasks for money at some stage. That’s the lot. Hillary’s […]
Read more..May 29, 2023
2022: Whiria te Tangata
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand has recently funneled $5.8 million of your money toward “sustainability of the library sector” and in particular produced 12 “sustainability champions.” Now fully trained in “dismantling White privilege” and “colonising the library” the Champions take their freshly galvanised indoctrinations back to our local communities. For example, you are going […]
Read more..May 27, 2023
1859: The Christchurch Press
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 25 May, 1859, the first ever edition of the Christchurch Press newspaper. First Lyttleton Times editor, James FitzGerald, had come back to the colony from England to find his old paper had been captured by undesirables. So, he started up his own today in a small cottage: The Press. That’s more competition […]
Read more..May 25, 2023
1922: First Traffic Signals
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in Auckland history, 22 May, 1922, New Zealand’s first traffic signals were put to use. Prior to this the state of the art technology would have been the pair of white gloves a police constable on point duty wore to draw attention to his hand signals. The “ingenious” signal poles were placed at the […]
Read more..May 22, 2023
1860: The West Coast Purchase
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 21 May, 1860, 100 or so Ngai Tahu sold the entire West Coast of the South Island to the Crown. James Mackay paid the natives just $40,000 (£300.) The gold alone mined from these lands would be $2.8 billion. It was a sweet deal and Greymouth’s main street to this day is […]
Read more..May 21, 2023
1972: Ruth Ross Redux
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Typical of many left-wing white alpha females Ruth Ross was an accademic government bureaucrat and she had a special interest. Ross, years ahead of her time, was interested in Treaty of Waitangi revisionism which these days has become one of New Zealand’s major industries. In 1953 Ross was given the plumb job by John Beaglehole […]
Read more..May 19, 2023
1884: Gore Gospel Temperance Society
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand has had several waves of temperance and, believe it or not, they’re far from finished. The Wokesters of their day also created the ‘Me Too’ of their day, the Suffragettes. They persecuted the working folk by going after their drug of choice. This banner (image left) comes from the Gore Woman’s Gospel Temperance […]
Read more..May 15, 2023
1918: Great War Debating Chamber
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 9 May, 1918, the House of Representatives started using their new debating chamber. The seats have changed but it is much the same today and so are the grounds. The parliamentarians (aka leading gang members in this country) lost their old club house to a fire. The replacement was a creation of […]
Read more..May 9, 2023
