1941: Auckland Mayor John Allum
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 28 May, 1941, John Allum became the mayor of Auckland. This portrait (left) has been mothballed for decades in the city archives. They didn’t even know who it was and that it was someone else! Only turned up because the archives were being shifted to the North Shore to (I […]
Read more..May 28, 2025
1922: Girdleston Peak War Memorial
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
World War 1 memorial destroyed by a Maori activist and a Feminist writer. New Zealanders owe a great debt to the contributions of its early surveyors as well as the ANZAC soldiers. Sergeant Hubert Girdlestone (1879-1918) was both of these in one. Hugh, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, had the misfortune to be killed […]
Read more..May 27, 2025
1968: Inangahua Earthquake
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Most of New Zealand felt the earthquake (7.1) that struck the settlement of Inangahua today in history, Friday May 24, 1968, at 5.24am. Three people were killed and 14 counted as injured. Great video here from Nelson Provincial Museum showing the damage and hurt. 70% Of the dwellings in the town were made uninhabitable. Aftershocks […]
Read more..May 24, 2025
1914: St Kilda Community Library
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In St Kilda, Dunedin, a perfectly good Anarchist library is about to be replaced by a government one. The 1914 St Kilda Community Library didn’t tax anyone. It was run by voluntary effort for 110 years. “The library has been run and kept open by volunteers since its inception.” “The library originally opened in April […]
Read more..May 24, 2025
1988: Fencing of Swimming Pools
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 20 July 1987 the Fencing of Swimming Pools Act gained assent and commencement. It came into force the following year on 1 May and applied to everyone with an existing swimming pool, 1 September for new pools. New Zealanders who wished to keep their property, their pools, would now have to fence them off. […]
Read more..May 16, 2025
1988: Richard and Judy
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Worship the anthropocentric hardware of the teleprompter… “Much of the attention focused on newsreaders, their jobs being about as simple as any known to mankind. A stop-go sign holder at roadworks literally has more intellectual demands placed on him or her than someone robotically reading the lines from a screen. This celebrity treatment of newsreaders […]
Read more..May 11, 2025
Nathan Wallis Grift
By NZB3
It’s hard to know when mainstream media is putting out advertising or editorial content. As a rule, the show is propaganda/advertising and the ‘break’ for ‘advertising’ is the real news since it carries price and product information explicitly. The rest of the time they’re trying to sell you something subversively without you knowing. Take Radio […]
Read more..May 8, 2025
1980: Jones on Progeny
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The famous New Zealander, Bob Jones (1939- 2/May/2025) has just died. Businessman, writer, commentator, teacher, humorist, art collector. Only weeks ago he was writing articles and giving long radio interviews. He said he purchased books in triplicate for his 3 libraries in his houses around the world that he would flit between. He had a […]
Read more..May 7, 2025
1903: Canterbury Weka Wiped Out
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Amusing to see that a woodhen managed to hop a ride coast to coast. From an Inangahua campsite on the West Coast it jumped into the vehicle of some campers who discovered the bird when they returned to Christchurch. No weka, aka New Zealand hen, aka Maori hen have been in the wild in Canterbury […]
Read more..May 6, 2025
German Parents Arrested For Obeying Lockdown In 2025
By NZB3
Undies Undies Togs? German parents arrested in Spain for being in COVID Lockdown ‘too long’ and inflicting it on their 3 kids. The same behavior in 2020, 2022 was mainstream and illegal not to do. For the following years it was just normal. And as of mid-2025 it’s illegal behavior and they have been arrested! […]
Read more..May 3, 2025
Smart Cops
By NZB3
Might be an idea to put two news headlines about the New Zealand Police together. One from today, the other from yesterday. Police warned over shifting information to Microsoft cloud services, Phil Pennington, RNZ “Police have been warned that shifting their information to the cloud could have “severe detrimental impacts” if they are not careful. […]
Read more..April 30, 2025
1866: Engelbrecht’s Ending
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
With regret we read that the old Engelbrecht farm at Bennetts (Oxford) is being surrendered after being in the family since about 1866. This time it’s voluntary. The first farm was taken by the flooding Waimakariri. Engelbrecht was ruined and had to start over. Now his second property, Island Farm, previously known as Pine Tree […]
Read more..April 30, 2025
