1985: Placing Mt Egmont in the Shade
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Mt Egmont (discovered 1770¹) was given a new bilingual name by the New Zealand Geographic Board on August 6th, 1985. It wasn’t popular with all Taranaki locals, but The State decided a combination name was best for the mountain. From 29 May 1986 the peak would be ‘Mount Taranaki’ and ‘Mt Egmont’ on the books. […]
Read more..August 5, 2020
1954: The Queen and The State
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand was fortunate back on 12 January, 1954, that Queen Elizabeth II herself was here to open Parliament. After 113 year since becoming a British colony New Zealand’s Head of State paid their first ever visit. The Queen of New Zealand was in New Zealand. From a pragmatic standpoint my own Anarchist opinion is that […]
Read more..August 4, 2020
2010: Supercity
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
As of November 2020 it has become a a full decade since Auckland became a “Super City.” At this clip shows, not so very long ago, there were 27 Mayors of Auckland! One big push and they could have all been dunked in the drink! What an opportunity! The further back in time we go, […]
Read more..August 3, 2020
The Wanker and the Nurse
By NZB3
Two remarkable judgements were made last week which teach us about the New Zealand we live in. It’s not good! One on trial was the West Wave Wanker and his sentencing was so light we don’t even know his name. The second was nurse Deborah Kathryn Hugill whose career has been terminated and everyone knows who […]
Read more..August 2, 2020
1926: Henderson Town Hall
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 30 June, 1926, the Henderson Town Hall burnt down. Curiously to my Anarchist eye, it was again destroyed by fire 41 years and 1 month and 1 day later. State History does not remark on how strange or similar these two events were in the history of West Auckland so it’s about […]
Read more..July 31, 2020
1994: The Free Radical
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Free Radical (1994-2009) was a libertarian journal that ran for 81 editions. After Dignity Culture New Zealand was turned out in favour of a new Victimhood Culture (c.1990) the libertarians and conservatives were left high and dry and disenchanted by the march of the new Politically Correct culture. This magazine, TFR, was part of […]
Read more..July 31, 2020
1904: Wallace Troopers Memorial
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Wallace Troopers Memorial was unveiled down Palmerston Street, Riverton, on 3 May, 1904¹. These days The State usually commissions and pays for (with your stolen money) monuments and memorials but back then it was done privately. Erecting the memorial signals that the Riverton people had moved beyond the warrior’s phase (Honour Culture) and into […]
Read more..July 29, 2020
1906: Nelson’s 1906 Darwin Awards
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Without The State who would accidentally commit suicide by blowing up privately-funded monuments? Today in history, 28 July, 1906, two Government employees did just that in Nelson. From 1880, Nelson had a very nice drinking fountain that also lit the the corner of Trafalgar and Hardy streets. This was a monument to John Symons, a […]
Read more..July 28, 2020
1890: Whakarewarewa Rugby
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
c.1890, Whakarewarewa’s local (Maori) rugby team. I think we forget that, for most of our history, Western and Maori New Zealanders grew up in parallel worlds. The Maori’s world stumbled along in comparatively low productivity, the population nearly becoming extinct c.1900. The Western New Zealanders became highly productive and thrived. By the 1960s the survivors […]
Read more..July 24, 2020
Lepidoptera Zealandia
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The history of New Zealanders and their culture is also the history of their language, English. New Zealand English is a special offshoot of what I refer to as the same ‘Mothership’ the Americans, Canadians, Australians, South Africans etc exited during different times and circumstances. Each colony was a photocopy of the original Mothership, Britain, […]
Read more..July 23, 2020
1700: The First Christchurch Gondola
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 24 October, 1992, The Mt Cavendish Gondola was open for business and is still running today under the name Christchurch Gondola. You can be seated in a gondola basket on a return trip to visit the cafe at the top and take in amazing views. What few realise is that this was not the […]
Read more..July 19, 2020
What is English language really?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The history of New Zealanders and their culture is also the history of their language, English. It has come to my attention that ‘educators’ today have been telling their ‘students’ that “for white people being interested in the history of Aotearoa is a hobby, but for maori it is life or death.” Or, “unfortunately being […]
Read more..July 18, 2020
