1914: Westland Goldfields Jubilee
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Westland Goldfields Jubilee started up on 7 January 1914 and ran for about a week. Those gathered were commemorating fifty years since the opening of the Westland Goldfields. Gatherings and events were centered on Hokitika which temporarily swelled with an estimated 8000 people as visitors poured in. This included c.800 pioneer senior citizens themselves… “The […]
Read more..July 8, 2020
2002: The Governor’s Stolen Diary
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Dormant diaries will appear sometimes, erupting like volcanoes to shake up or even replace what we thought was New Zealand’s history. The revelation of in Edward VIII’s mistress’s diaries in 1996 were a minor tremor. On the other hand, the diary of Ensign Best, discovered in 1955, represented an earthquake in our understanding of the […]
Read more..July 7, 2020
1868: Jailbreak
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Jail Break, 1868. Today in New Zealand history, July 3¹, 1868, Te Kooti captured his captors and seized control of the schooner Rifleman. The crew of convicts manage to escape their island prison of the Chatham Islands. Heartbeats They were racing Freedom He was chasin’ Spotlights Sirens Rifles firing But he made it out – […]
Read more..July 3, 2020
1847: The Colonial Bank of Issue
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Back in 1847, Governor George Grey’s Government got its fingers into the business of banking. Grey created something called The Colonial Bank of Issue which was a colonial version of the latest State bank we have: Kiwi Bank (est 2001.) Private New Zealanders, of course, were perfectly capable of supplying their own banking services and were suspicious of the […]
Read more..July 2, 2020
1939: New Zealand Listener
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 30 June, 1939: The first edition of the New Zealand Listener magazine was published. A major magazine in this country for just over 80 years, it expired in April 2020. How did it become such a prominent publication? First the Government took over the radio waves. Then, it prohibited anyone from reporting […]
Read more..June 30, 2020
Free Dignity
By NZB3
Here’s an interesting premise: The Welfare System “lacks dignity” according to Green MP Golriz Ghahraman. The hidden premise of that statement is that dignity itself is a welfare product and it ought to be distributed by The State. They’re already handing out free food, free money, free houses etc. These are material things. The Green’s complaint […]
Read more..June 29, 2020
Historical Report on Hamilton Street and City Names
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This month, June 2020, Hamilton City Council famously tore out tore out the statue of the man their city was named after, Captain John Hamilton. They did this because they understood that the temporary flare up of Black Lives Matter protestors had the agenda of vandalising the statue themselves. The city wanted to get in […]
Read more..June 28, 2020
“Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group”
By NZB3
In July 2018 Chester Borrows, former National MP, started opening up publicly, quite out of the blue, all about past Maori injustice. It was a confessional moment that made headlines. Something fishy was going on. When an old used-politics salesman or academic starts randomly sounding off like then it’s not actually news at all. It’s […]
Read more..June 28, 2020
1817: The Murders Abroad Act
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 27 June, 1817, the country was first mentioned in statute. The occasion was, for one thing, to make it quite clear that New Zealand was not part of British territory. The Murders Abroad Act became law in 1817. Continents Suspected Deep in the South Almost 50 years before, Captain Cook […]
Read more..June 27, 2020
1989: Ancestors of the Mind
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
My name is Jim Traue. I was born in Auckland; as a child and young man I lived in Palmerston North, Hawera, Rotorua, Frankton Junction and then back in Auckland; but I have lived most of my life in Wellington. By birth, by domicile, by loyalty I am a New Zealander. I have no other […]
Read more..June 26, 2020
Generational Accretion
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
As each Western Generation (eg. Boomers, Gen X, Millennials,..) comes of age they begin to mark their territory by memorialising their attitudes and deeds onto our landscape. After an event, such as someone’s death, a battle, a war, a discovery, a road, or even a decision, there is frequently an occasion marking it with some […]
Read more..June 25, 2020
US Relations
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Fair test- what’s New Zealand’s history of accepting the United States of America’s proposals on NZ foreign policy? Do Kiwis prick up their ears to listen and thank Uncle Sam for his friendly tips about how they ought to govern? The short answer: No. Longer answer: Hell no! Longer answer with evidence below. But, first, […]
Read more..June 24, 2020
