1844: FitzRoy’s Pole
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Taranaki War in the 1860s over control of land has its roots in conflict long before Western Settlers came to New Zealand. Maori tribes had been treating each other to cruelty back into antiquity over the territory around Mt Egmont. After the Maoris became British citizens in 1840 their historical conflicts and feuds became […]
Read more..December 26, 2022
1928: Race Realism
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This text book for 9 year olds at New Zealand schools is scandalously Politically Incorrect in the 2020s for its Race Realism. The book was published during a Fourth Turning/Crisis which is to say a time in our history where great emphasis was placed on the placing of boundaries. At other times our mainstream culture […]
Read more..December 23, 2022
1901: Hawera High School
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Hawera High School celebrated it’s 100th year in 2019 but has a continuity going back to 1875 or beyond. The end of this legacy is 27 January, 2023, replaced by a new educational paradigm on 28 January, 2023 under the name Te Paepae o Aotea. All of New Zealand itself is currently being edited, redacted, […]
Read more..December 22, 2022
1984: The ICI Fire
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Nasty disaster today in history, 21 December, 1984. Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) had a chemical warehouse just down to road from where Sylvia Park megamall is in Auckland today. A warehouse of compounds and mixtures and toxic fumes raging in a blazing fire is not what the residents in and around Mt Wellington wanted for […]
Read more..December 21, 2022
1830s: Shag River
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
There goes another one. Otago’s Shag River now to be re-named with Maori branding. To colonise New Zealand with state-sponsored neo-Maori, to ultimately change this country’s name to “Aotearoa” it is necessary to make lots of little changes building up to it. Shag Mouth site was occupied only briefly, about 50 years in the late […]
Read more..December 20, 2022
2000: Big Mouth Billy Bass
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand, and the West, flows through 80 year saeculum cycles made up for 4 sub-cycles of 20 year generations. Each generation is composed of 4 cultures of 5 years a piece. Anarchist History of New Zealand finds and documents each of these saeculums, generations, and cultures. In the year 2000 we were in Stackhat […]
Read more..December 10, 2022
1952: The Grand Interplanetary Hoax
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
By 1952 ripples of neo-superstitious beliefs rippled over the New Zealand cultural membrane. Mainstream Kiwis pushed back satirically at first but the fascination with UFOs in particular kept gaining ground. The Bayswater-Auckland ferry had a flying saucer joke hanging on a string. An Auckland University student theater advertised themselves with cardboard flying saucers. Others, though, […]
Read more..December 6, 2022
1877: The Greymouth and Kumara Tramway
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Kumara gold rush of 1876 opened up a new source of wealth which the nearby port towns of Hokitika to the south and Greymouth to the north obviously wanted form a supply line with. To the east of Kumara, to this day, is the much longer road all the way to Christchurch so that […]
Read more..December 3, 2022
2008: Martin Jetpack
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The premise of the Mel Brooks film The Producers (1967)is that a producer can make more money out of a play that is a flop than one that is a success. So, the sure-to-fail script of ‘Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden’ was born. Books’ film has been made […]
Read more..December 2, 2022
1971: Turangi Information Centre Museum
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand has many Ghost Towns but in Turangi it has a Ghost Museum. Now derelict, the 1970s buildings are still there as evidence and so are a couple of monuments to what used to be an exciting history destination with the very latest form of exhibit presentation. Everyone who takes the highway east of […]
Read more..November 29, 2022
1967: Opepe Canoe Rescue
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In Taupo History news this week we see that Taupo Museum is congratulating itself for re-mounting the Opepe Canoe for the third time. Goodness knows how much it cost the taxpayer. Whereas, the first time the ‘waka’ was conserved and mounted it was all done by the community for free. The Opepe Canoe appears to […]
Read more..November 27, 2022
1503: Frenchman’s Gully Rock Art
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
There are hundreds of pre-Maori rock art sites in South Canterbury, including some very special ones at Frenchman’s Gully at Pareora Gorge near Timaru. Here we see some of the few (only) pictures of the long extinct moa. No Maori ever saw a moa. The giant bird was the primary resource of an earlier culture […]
Read more..November 21, 2022
