1985: Free Market Honey
By AHNZ
I don’t know when The State first took over honey in New Zealand. Never tried to find that out. If I had to guess I’d say the Liberals were to blame back in the 1890s. It’s the sort of dirty job Jock McKenzie would do. Well, it happened to honey just as most any other […]
Read more..May 15, 2019
1955: New Zealand Honey Marketing Authority
By AHNZ
Political corruption over control of produce has a long, long, tradition in New Zealand. We’re a land of milk and honey and both of these are the prize in a never-ending mafia turf war for oligopolistic control. The New Zealand Honey Marketing Authority (HMA,) Established 1955 The HMA ruled honey for 30 years until Roger […]
Read more..February 3, 2019
1991: Kiwiburger
By AHNZ
The Kiwiburger was the idea of franchisee Bryan Old and deployed in his five Hamilton McDonald’s restaurants. It was added to the national McMenu in 1991. According to his 2022 obituary, Old had a reputation for badgering upper McManagement with new ideas to the point where the best way to handle him was to let […]
Read more..December 20, 2023
1899: New Zealand’s First Aviation Fatality
By AHNZ
Today in history, 2 November, 1899, at Christchurch’s Lancaster Park, 25yo Captain Lorraine blew out to sea in his balloon never to be seen again. I’m delighted as a freedom lover that a man could take his life in his own hands without being stopped. And, that he could be ‘captain’ without some government or […]
Read more..November 2, 2023
1939: The First State Babies
By AHNZ
New Zealand’s Labour 1.0 Government is infamous for setting out to take over the lives of citizens “from the cradle to the grave.” As of the stroke of midnight on 16 May, 1939, the ‘cradle’ part of this controlling calculation was in force. Just 7 minutes later Mrs Elsie Sharp of Matakana gave birth to […]
Read more..May 8, 2023
1989: Kavanagh College
By AHNZ
The Catholic school in New Zealand’s most Presbyterian city, Dunedin, dates back to 1989 but has much deeper roots. Kavanagh College is an amalgamation of other Catholic schools from the 1870s and 1890s. The College was named after the fourth Catholic Bishop of Dunedin who had died earlier that decade. Kavanagh’s values: Respect, Justice, Truth, […]
Read more..March 19, 2022
1853: Oamaru Ferry Theory
By AHNZ
Oamaru had been a wasteland until Hugh Robison and his brother built and lived in a muster’s raupo/flax/sod hut in 1853. Here they created a sheep station called the Oamaru Run. The North Otago settlement became a thriving town thanks to its port that served pastoralists and the great Otago Gold Rush. By the mid-1880s […]
Read more..December 28, 2021
1936: The Ministry of Marketing
By AHNZ
Incredible the socialist bullets we’ve dodged as a country… and the ones we haven’t. For example, from 26 May, 1936, The Ministry of Marketing. Labour 1.0 created The Marketing Department in 1936 which locked in complete Government control of primary production in our country. Under the Minister, Walter Nash, Labour 1.0 now had the power […]
Read more..November 23, 2021
1997: The Death of Mat Rata
By AHNZ
Today in history, 18 July, 1997,…. Matiu Rata was a Labour 3.0 Minister and one of the many men who helped launder millions of dollars of taxpayer money using the cover story that it was owed to Maori plaintiffs. He wasn’t as good as Doug Graham (National 4.0) or Chris Finlayson (National 5.0) but was […]
Read more..July 17, 2021
1430: When Eagle Was Sovereign
By AHNZ
The Mighty sky predator: Haast’s Eagle. Speciality: bi-pedal prey. 600 years extinct due to running out of moa to prey upon. By First Contact, Maoris had only the vaguest knowledge that either the eagle or the moa had existed. The people who were in New Zealand before, the Moa Hunters, would have known both of […]
Read more..December 30, 2020
1941: New Zealand Standards Council
By AHNZ
The New Zealand Standards Institute, today known as Standards New Zealand, has had three ‘Standards Mark’ logos that I have been able to find. It is, and has always been, an attempt by Central Government to control those who may be productive in society by being the arbiter of whose goods and services meet “standards.” […]
Read more..December 21, 2020
Between 5G and an Ancient Tree
By AHNZ
Victimhood Cultures prosper by discovering and exploiting the cracks and hypocrisies in Moral Codes. It’s like cracking a shell or defusing a beehive to get to the value inside. Members of this culture are praised and esteemed, celebrated, for discovering and sharing the exploits and vulnerabilities that grant access to the DC honey pot. I […]
Read more..April 10, 2020
