1999: Westland Industrial Heritage Park
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Westland Industrial Heritage Park, Hokitika, was established in 1999. When I visited I was humbled by the beautiful old machines and the welcoming and informed staff. However, I was also blown away by the embarrassingly large and modern warehouse space this little club was sitting on. A few old Boomer blokes who will likely keel […]
Read more..July 20, 2025
1993: Habeas Porpoise?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Generations of Cantabrians once proudly showed the world one of the masterpieces of the Canterbury Museum collection: A huge blue whale skeleton. Born some time in the 1810s, the great leviathan washed up in 1908 at Okarito and after much trial and expense was fixed for display at the museum from 23 March, 1909. The […]
Read more..July 18, 2025
2017: Open Plan Classrooms
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In the race for the 2017 General Election the Labour Party promised what they called ‘modern open-plan learning environments.’ Party Leader Andrew Little was just days away from being rolled by Jacinda Ardern and the party won, becoming Labour 6.0 in coalition with New Zealand First. Chris Hipkins, now as Education Minister, proceeded to replace […]
Read more..July 17, 2025
1868: The Greymouth Borrow Council
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 16 July, 1868, Greymouth was proclaimed a Borough. The title of the Crown land was shifted from Maori Reserve to the Canterbury Province which welcomed its newest 2 municipalities: Greymouth and Timaru. AHNZ, and Greymouth Punch, refer to this creation as The Greymouth Borrow Council. Ever since its creation it […]
Read more..July 16, 2025
1893: Maxim Gun in Greymouth
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Here’s a cool picture of a Maxim Gun on display in Greymouth. Most likely Greymouth Industrial Exhibition, December 1893. F. A. Moore brought the big guns to town on behalf of the Permanent Artillery Force that had been set up after the Russian Scare of a few years prior. “It possesses one barrel, which is […]
Read more..July 15, 2025
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
