1935: Pickering Follows Cosmic Rainbow Home to New Zealand
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
William Pickering, who died yesterday in history (b. 24/12/1910, d. 15/3/2004) was “New Zealand’s greatest gift to America.” Like fellow physicist Ernest Rutherford, Bill was also from Havelock in Marlborough. When Bill’s father started at Havelock School, Rutherford was already a student there. Young Bill’s pathway led him from New Zealand to gain his PhD […]
Read more..March 16, 2020
Greenstone Takeaway
By NZB3
The day after I took this photo in Hokitika there was a theft nearby. The German guy who sells Thai food to the international tourists (go figure) by the beach had his greenstone menu-holder stolen and wants people to know… “Today we had a nice Lady, she came with an old Man and she steal […]
Read more..March 13, 2020
1889: Te Kooti- Sainted Old Santa?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 4 March, 1889, Te Kooti was released from Mt Eden Jail to make his return to the Waikato. The old Maori ‘terrorist’ has lately caused a crisis on the threshold of Poverty Bay (Gisborne.) Some of his followers clearly wanted him back to the place of his birth but many […]
Read more..March 4, 2020
Another Trained Racist
By NZB3
Like Auckland and other centres, Wellington’s Metlink contrives to pay their skilled staff less than New Zealanders are willing to be paid by importing immigrant workers. No wonder they keep going on and on about diversity and anti-racism! It’s branding, self-preservation. (This is also why Auckland’s bus services are on strike today. The migrants brought […]
Read more..March 3, 2020
Slave Culture and Abortion
By NZB3
What’s the Slave Culture approach to abortion? What some see as murder the psychology of the SC views as commonplace as discarding chewing gum or having a haircut. It seems one of life’s mysteries. The Theory of Moral Cultures predicts that K-selected kids are always wanted and r-selected kids are not. The two K-selected cultures (Honour Culture […]
Read more..March 2, 2020
1950s: Sons of Sargeson
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Human communities seem to require one man to be a bolt of lightning at least one time to coalesce their latent primordial brilliance around. Some leader who, if nothing else, models for others how to take themselves seriously. “Critics began to use this term ‘Sons of Sargeson.’ They were referring of course to this series […]
Read more..March 1, 2020
1960s: The Second Great Migration
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This is an interesting way of thinking about modern Maori history, The Second Great Migration. For a long time, Maoris continued to live a separate existence and by the turn of the century almost became extinct. By the 1960s the survivors decided to exit their settlements and join the cities Western New Zealanders had built… […]
Read more..February 28, 2020
1963: New Zealand Labour Party Leadership Election
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 26 February,1963, Arnold Nordmeyer replaced Walter Nash as Labour Leader and Leader of the Opposition¹. Highly similar to the way Jacinda Ardern switched out for Andew Little in the run-up to to the 2017 election. Bit less sudden though. However, Nordmeyer was quite unable to lead his party to victory in the […]
Read more..February 26, 2020
Slave Culture Going Hungry
By NZB3
Rangiatea Church, est. 1851, was burned down 144 years later by Francis Shaw. Rangiatea had been built at Te Rauparaha’s initiative, an emblem of putting the old hostilities to rest between Maori and Maori and Maori and Colonist. It was a very special place that featured in the architectural annals of New Zealand until 1995 when […]
Read more..February 25, 2020
1889: Te Kooti’s Homecoming
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Te Kooti’s 1868 Matawhero Massacre of 30 defenceless New Zealanders at Poverty Bay (aka Gisbourne) was remembered in 1889 when he tried to go back there twenty years later. Today in New Zealand history, 24 February, 1889, Premier Harry Atkinson put an end to “Te Kooti’s Little Spree” by having him arrested and jailed in […]
Read more..February 25, 2020
1953: HMS Tactician
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
It was not until August 1953 that New Zealand was first officially visited by a military submarine. That boat was HMS Tactician, a World War II T Class model. Of course, New Zealand had been unofficially visited by German and Japanese subs prior to this in an unfriendly way. The first submarine in our waters […]
Read more..February 24, 2020
1949: Meeanee Rodeo
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On October 22nd, 1949, the week of the Hawke’s Bay Show, the Meeanee Young Farmers Sports Club organised a day of rodeo at their domain. A clever idea to have some fun and tap in to a bit of existing traffic already attending the larger event. Whoever these clever young men were, they also had […]
Read more..February 20, 2020
