Communication Hijack
By NZB3
New Zealanders no longer recognise communication as the transmission of information. Instead, the word has come to refer to baffling and dazzling and diverting and deflecting. That’s on us, it’s epistemological. Now with the (expropriated) term well in hand we award praise to the Prime Minister for being a master “communicator.” We lower our boundaries […]
Read more..June 8, 2021
1960: Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Two Ministers of Labour from the same political party had radically opposed views on how to help the disabled. From Labour 2.0, Fred Hackett. From Labour 5.0, Ruth Dyson. Hackett sponsored the Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act (1960): An Act to make better provision for the employment of disabled persons.1 Dyson sponsored the repeal of […]
Read more..June 7, 2021
Maori Currency Inflation
By NZB3
Maori are not to blame for what is done in the name of their culture but they are taking the flack. For example, Stuff: Tauranga man arrested after video posted making threats to Māori. For another, Eagle Brewer’s outburst. People are getting angry about it. And because that anger tends to be suppressed as politically […]
Read more..June 6, 2021
New Ahaura Bridge
By NZB3
Are West Coasters afraid of Maoris? Worse, are they afraid of taniwha? Since I first migrated across the clapped out old wooden single-lane Ahaura Bridge I found Coasters to be refreshingly non-Politically Correct. Especially so when it comes to Environmentalists and the Department of Conservation. Nobody minds being vigorously against 1080 poison pellets or Woke […]
Read more..June 5, 2021
1840: Dissolving the Port Nicholson Settlers’ Council
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 4 June, 1840, the free settlers of Port Nicholson were deprived of self-government by an invasion from the north. As the settlers sailed and then set up their new home in future Wellington, a gang of military officers plotted to install themselves as the masters of this and all the […]
Read more..June 4, 2021
1867: The Wanganui Herald
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 3 June, 1867, John Ballance owned his own printing press and released his first newspaper edition – The Evening Herald. It was later re-named The Wanganui Herald. Ballance went on to be Prime Minister in the most horrible Liberal era. The Wangnui Herald went on until 1986 when it was ended but […]
Read more..June 4, 2021
1941: Operation Mercury
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 1 June, 1941, New Zealand’s warriors surrendered the island of Crete to the Germans. Really it was all over by Day 2 of the Nazi’s invasion which they called ‘Operation Mercury.’ We called it massacring-lots-of-Germans-as-they-floated-down-to-earth-in-parachutes. The Krauts earned their victory with blood but they were always going to win. The […]
Read more..June 1, 2021
Waikato DHB Hack
By NZB3
The State demands personal information from us from contact information to where we live to who we are related to to when when got sick and how we got sick… “As the crippled Waikato District Health Board scrambles to resurrect its hacked IT systems, there is little clarity about how damaging the cyberattack was – […]
Read more..May 26, 2021
1932: Rainbow Springs
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Rotorua’s Rainbow Springs is out of business due to the hospitality-crushing re-set of our current Labour 6.0 Government. Likewise, Rotorua’s Agrodome is agrodone. Rainbow Springs opened in December 1932 after entrepreneur Ted Bruce converted it out of a swampy dairy farm. Later, it was joined together with the neighbouring Fairy Springs which is older still. […]
Read more..May 24, 2021
1967: Burt Munroe, Downright Arthurian
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
It’s anachronistic what that man did. Like some H.G. Wells fiction story leaping out of the book. A child of the Age of Steam who learned in childhood that airplanes had been invented and could fly. Burt Munroe came of age during the Great War and that makes him one of what is called ‘The […]
Read more..May 21, 2021
1929: Primitive Economics of the NZ Maori
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Raymond Firth’s The Primitive Economics of the NZ Maori was published on about 29 May, 1929. I have the second edition, printed in the 1970s. Firth made a comprehensive study of Maoris and of course he did it from a particular point of view and it was a new and different one for its time. […]
Read more..May 17, 2021
1846: Almon Boulcott’s Farm
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Almon Boulcott left his very wealthy English father and his estate to come to settle the Wellington area with his older brother in 1842. Today in history, 16 May, 1846, his path crossed with the raiders of Te Rangihaeata. Te Rangihaeata was driven out of his home territory at Kawhia by a stronger tribe. He […]
Read more..May 16, 2021
