1966: Kaipara Nuclear Power Station
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The National 2.0 Government (Dec 1960–Dec 1972) certainly were an energetic gang when it came to Statist projects! They gave us decimal coins, Rotorua Museum, and the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point. All of these things are living history and have been topical this week; I wrote about them all. Did you know they were […]
Read more..July 15, 2021
1905: Murchison Madmen
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 14 July, 1905, a frustrated South-Nelson settler ignited his dynamite vest. For Joseph Sewell it was instakill but everyone else gathered around Murchison Courthouse survived. The Sewell family had been going tough on their block since the 1880s. Migrating to New Zealand was no sweet deal and the life ended up killing […]
Read more..July 14, 2021
1934: Death of Kate Sheppard
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 13 July, 1934, Kate Sheppard died in her Christchurch home aged 86. By this time she was Katherine Lovell-Smith. Kate is remembered for being the poster woman of the successful campaign to give women the ability to vote in New Zealand central government elections. In actual fact, these women were re-gaining an […]
Read more..July 13, 2021
1860: Kohimarama Conference
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 10 July, 1860, the Treaty of Waitangi was ratified at the Kohimarama Conference in Auckland. Chiefs from all over New Zealand came to discuss and debate and reflect. How was this whole Colonisation thing working out anyway, these past 20 years? The conference went on for a month and served […]
Read more..July 9, 2021
1855: The Mackenzie Country Heist
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Jock Mackenzie migrated to New Zealand via Australia in 1847 where he became a freelance shepherd. Getting his own block of land wasn’t so hard but the terms required he stock it if he was to keep it. So, the wily Scotsman drew on his heritage: He rustled someone else’s sheep. Mackenzie had a cunning […]
Read more..July 8, 2021
1959: Keith Trek
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Keith Trek, 1959, was a successful attempt to start campaigning early for the General Election of 1960. “In the next two months I will trek through every part of New Zealand,” said Keith Holyoake, the once and future Prime Minister. Meanwhile, Labour 2.0 Prime Minister Walter Nash was lying and committing crimes in Nelson (Walter’s […]
Read more..July 5, 2021
1975: TV2
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 30 June, 1975, TV2 first aired. This state-run television station branded and re-branded itself with new logos and new names in order best to find and keep its audience. TV2 has also called itself South Pacific Televion, Television 2, Network Two, and Channel 2. Digital TV (2007) met a 32 year old […]
Read more..June 30, 2021
1843: Ovis Aries Canterbury
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 17 June, 1843, the first sheep ever in Canterbury arrived from New South Wales. Canterbury and sheep turned out be a winning combination. “Pioneering Scottish brothers, operating as ‘W & J Deans’, landed 33 Merino sheep – as well as 41 heifers, 18 bullocks, 1 bull, 2 sows & 3 Clydesdales – […]
Read more..June 29, 2021
2003: Test the Nation
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
TV1 delivered a “National IQ Test” on the night of 30 June 2003. Hosed by Simon Dalow and Lana Coc-Kroft. The findings are of less interest to the Anarchist Historian as relative audacity of asking questions like these at all. Those of the Tasman/Nelson/Marlborough region were found to top the IQ score helped by Nelson […]
Read more..June 28, 2021
Bureaucracy Handbreak
By NZB3
Bureaucracy is an egregore all of its own. Whatever it’s task de facto, it metastasize to grow and preserve its primary cause: self-preservation. This is the reason successive governments re-brand their departments. In other words, all human action that has been politicised (ministerially departmentalised by statism) cannot be commanded or summoned only destroyed and […]
Read more..June 26, 2021
1922: Eskimo Pie
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand has had Eskimo Pies, unchanged, since about 1922. So nearly 100 years now. It took Millennial Victimhood Culture to end it. “ESKIMO PIE—A NEW- SWEET “Eskimo pie” is the invention of an ingenious confectioner, C. K. Nelson, who a few months ago presided over a small shop in an obscure town in lowa. […]
Read more..June 24, 2021
1869: Marton
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The town of Marton came by its name on 24 February, 1869, when its Settlers met to make the big decision. The other names that were not chosen were: York, Edinburgh, Carleton, Cokham, and Stafford after the Premier of the day. Marton was picked in remembrance to the centenary year of Captain James Cook first […]
Read more..June 23, 2021
