1975: The Parihaka Industry
By AHNZ
“Parihaka would become a thriving industry,” observes Radio New Zealand in their 2018 interview The Shame of Parihaka is so Great it can Never End. Which kind of industry do they mean? It’s not agriculture, not forestry, not energy, not steel. The thriving Parihaka industry is shame and business is good. Maoris who live at, […]
Read more..November 1, 2022
1881: Wait A Minute Chester! (or, After Parihaka)
By AHNZ
It’s become a regular repetitive refrain that history revisionists such as the Race Relations Commission preface their propaganda with. “Know your history – Kimihia ō kōrero tuku iho”…. “Chester Borrows: Learn your history, no matter how unpalatable it might be”- 1/June/2018, NZ Herald Perhaps Borrows in this piece is interviewing for a seat on some […]
Read more..June 29, 2019
1881: The Critic (or, After Parihaka)
By AHNZ
We’ve had a visit from the editor of Otago University Students’ Association magazine, Joel Macmanus. His magazine, Critic (est 1925,) has broken camp for the year along with Joel’s editorship, ready for the new kids of 2019. Joel’s major and most public contribution as editor was a puerile cover story on menstruation back in May. This […]
Read more..November 6, 2018
1881: Bloodless End to the Affair at Parihaka
By AHNZ
Today in history: 5 November, 1881: ‘Members of the Armed Constabulary preparing for the march on Parihaka’ The Parihaka terrorist cult had been building for about 14 years and was becoming a serious danger. The New Zealand Parliament was called early in 1880 to try to solve the growing crisis. Finally, in November 1881, the armed […]
Read more..November 5, 2018
1879: Parihaka Cult sends in The Ploughmen
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Activist arm of the Parihaka Cult c23 June, 1879, Activist arm of the Parihaka Cult, The Ploughmen, terrorise Taranaki settlers. They literally plough disputed land, and beyond it into settler’s crown grant land. The first to be affected was The Waipapa homestead of James Livingston and family. It must have scared the hell out of […]
Read more..November 3, 2018
1881: The Children of Parihaka (2012)
By AHNZ
The Parihaka incident occurred on 5 November 1881. Considering it was a State police action it was humanely and patiently carried out and something for which New Zealanders can be proud. It is not remembered that way at all… “Today in 1881 saw an attack on a pacifist settlement at Parihaka, revisited in documentary Tatarakihi […]
Read more..November 2, 2018
1865: Native Rights Act
By AHNZ
Today in New Zealand history, 26 September, 1865, the Native Rights Act became law. It is seldom, or never, mentioned in government history books yet has huge significance to our constitutional history. “An Act to declare that the Maoris shall be deemed to be natural-born subjects of Her Majesty and to declare that the jurisdiction […]
Read more..September 26, 2024
1873: Softness of Brain
By AHNZ
Today in history, 11 September, 1873, the father of the New Zealand Police Force died. I’ve named an era after him called Branigan Honor Culture. He was St. John Branigan and that would have been pronounced ‘Sinjin’. New Zealand’s top policeman in his day. Otago’s gold diggings were attracting a great many Australians. Logically this, […]
Read more..September 11, 2024
1873: When Auckland Took Fright
By AHNZ
Today in history, 17 February, 1873: The Kaskowiski Hoax was perpetrated on the people of Auckland by the new editor of the Daily Southern Cross newspaper, David Luckie. New Zealand is prone to periodic Russian Scares like this. Two others by 1885 led to significant investments in harbor defense forts like the one (image, left) […]
Read more..February 17, 2024
1852: From Patriarchy to Potted Plants
By AHNZ
For the nation of New Zealand to survive we must reproduce or else, as obvious as it is to have to say, we will perish. A rate of 1.61 births per woman (2020) is below replacement rate which, again, obviously, means we have a declining population. Unwilling to let our economy shrink (and their tax-take […]
Read more..August 19, 2023
1989: The Republic of Whangamomona
By AHNZ
Whangamomona, Taranaki. First settled in 1895, the name means ‘Fertile Valley’. These people were Taranaki settlers and they sent their young men to die in two world wars as Taranaki men. The Alexander Turnbull library has a photo of a World War 1 trench, probably at Gallipoli, named after the home of the Whangamomona ANZAC […]
Read more..January 30, 2023
1901: Hawera High School
By AHNZ
Hawera High School celebrated its 100th year in 2019 but has a continuity going back to 1875 or beyond. The end of this legacy is 27 January, 2023, replaced by a new educational paradigm on 28 January, 2023 under the name Te Paepae o Aotea. All of New Zealand itself is currently being edited, redacted, […]
Read more..December 22, 2022
