1917: The Runanga Payroll Robbery
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Whenever an historical narrative is cemented into the earth with a monument it makes a statement that brands as an instant deviant anyone who challenges it. After a dozen or so consultations of what really happened on 9 November, 1917, to the Rununga miners’ payroll all I can find are agreement with the mainstream handed-down […]
Read more..November 9, 2022
1875: Abolition of Provinces
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand’s Provincial System was broken up by Central Government using the Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875. Since then the Unitary State has grown more and more influential. The Governor General was reduced to a figurehead, the Legislative Council “temporarily” abolished entirely. The Prime Minister and their Ministry have become supreme and I don’t think […]
Read more..November 7, 2022
1929: Bessie Lee and the Brewery
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 5 November, 1929, with heads held high, shining eyes, and an air of strong resolution and purpose, over 80 women marched from the Baptist Church at Otahuhu, Auckland, to invoke Divine intervention against the opening of the new Waitemata brewery. They were led, as per usual, by a bourgeoisie woman of independent […]
Read more..November 5, 2022
1975: The Parihaka Industry
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
“Parihaka would become a thriving industry,” observes Radio New Zealand in their 2018 interview The Shame of Parihaka is so Great it can Never End. Which kind of industry do they mean? It’s not agriculture, not forestry, not energy, not steel. The thriving Parihaka industry is shame and business is good. Maoris who live at, […]
Read more..November 1, 2022
1835: Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 28 October, 1838, a contrived ceremony took place at Waitangi. Maoris had no input into it and didn’t really know what was going on. In theory they had picked a flag the year before but in reality they didn’t even understand the concept of what it meant to vote for one preference […]
Read more..October 28, 2022
The Primacy Effect
By NZB3
All the best for a thorough recovery to all involved at Westport last Friday who got into a car vs. motorbike crash outside my preferred cafe on the main street. Mike Jax shared this photo (left) of himself with a post to the West Coast community about the circumstances and his condition. It’s all public […]
Read more..October 26, 2022
Black Adam
By NZB3
The DC Comics film Black Adam is out and continuing the same very basic level cinema as all of the other attempts in the DC Universe. In a nutshell the criticism others have also made is apt. The Protagonist Dwayne Johnson has played the same character in the same movie yet again. Instead of creating […]
Read more..October 24, 2022
1867: Tuahiwi
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The remains of the Ngai Tahu tribesmen in Canterbury made a great alliance in 1848 with the Kemp Deed though it came much too late to avoid their destruction. The natives had been beaten and scattered by the Ngati Toa invasion at the hands of Chief Te Rauparaha (See 1830: Slaughter by Surprise) and only […]
Read more..October 21, 2022
1942: Tarawa Massacre
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 15 October, 1942, seventeen captured New Zealand Prisoners of War and five civilians were beheaded by their captors. They were the first Japanese prisoners of war from New Zealand and several did not even know they were soldiers. To keep watch on the Germans sixty two little Coastwatch Units were set up […]
Read more..October 15, 2022
1976: Wanganui Computer Centre Act
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Also known as ‘the Kremlin’ and ‘Big Brother,’ Wairere House is where National 3.0 created ‘The Wanganui Computer’ as per the provisions of the Wanganui Computer Centre Act (1976.) New Zealand had never had a centralised national database like this before, and certainly not a computerised one. The data pool drew from Police, Ministry of […]
Read more..September 26, 2022
1955: Tasman Glacier Airstrip
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 22 September, 1955, Harry Wigley made aviation history with a grass take-off and a snow-landing using his retractable-ski plane. A man who looked at Tasman Glacier and saw an airstrip! Wrigley designed the wooden skis himself and was justly rewarded in tourism revenue for the resulting Mount Cook Air Services […]
Read more..September 22, 2022
1873: New Zealand Excessive Legislation Mania Prevention Bill
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 20 September, 1873, the Otago Witness proposed a new law: THE NEW ZEALAND EXCESSIVE LEGISLATION MANIA PREVENTION BILL “PREAMBLE. Whereas the members of the Government, and also: private members of the General Assembly of New Zealand, have all alike been seized with a dangerous mania for crude, needless, or injurious legislation, which […]
Read more..September 20, 2022
