1985: Termination of Westland Hospital
By AHNZ
Day of Shame protest, 24 July, 1985, Hokitika The end of Westland Hospital. Continuation of yesterday’s post about Reefton Hospital… On this day, Hokitika closes down as a town for half a day to protest the effective closure of their own hospital. As discussed in my previous post, technically the ‘hospital’ would limp along as an […]
Read more..October 5, 2018
1988: Termination of Reefton Hospital
By AHNZ
c.6 October, 1988: Reefton citizens form a human chain around their hospital. I would love to read more about this whole phenomena of towns being assimilated. And, to write about it too. Regions absorbed into the megalopolis, refusing to be assimilated. A continuation of the Abolition of the Provinces battle from 1876. New Zealand certainly started […]
Read more..October 4, 2018
1863: Affair At Mauku
By AHNZ
Today in history, 23 October, 1863, the Waikato War became a real kinetic engagement with the Battle of Titi Farm. Tensions had been growing for a long time and the Auckland Settlers were anxious. Insurgent Maoris had been picking off stock, murdering farmers and children, plundering farms, and threatening massacres and wholesale invasion of Auckland […]
Read more..October 23, 2023
1974: Abortion
By AHNZ
Today in history, 16 September, 1974, New Zealand Police raided the country’s first abortion clinic. These were days of furious ‘debate’ between Pro-Lie and Pro-Choice political factions. Our history of aborting pregnancies is full of mad people acting out their psychodramas, drowning out any sane voices. How else could it be around such a basic […]
Read more..September 16, 2019
1974: Kirk Out
By AHNZ
Prime Minister, Norman Kirk, ran his body into the ground and died today in New Zealand history; 31 August, 1974. Every politician is a sociopath, every Government a Mafia racket. Kirk’s short lived Labour 3.0 clothed itself in people-pleasing camouflage like The Ohu Scheme and I Care Year. Behind the scenes Kirk and his people were, […]
Read more..August 30, 2019
1300s: Game of Stones
By AHNZ
Otago University archaeologists have detected that our early stone age culture started off with better quality tools then stepped back to local retail grade rocks… “They started to use inferior grade local materials … which wasn’t what I expected. We don’t know why … but they weren’t looking at importing adzes. They were still importing […]
Read more..May 23, 2019
1883: Oamaru Courthouse
By AHNZ
Reopening of courthouse ‘a great day’ The 1883 Thames St courthouse was closed in late 2011 after being classed as earthquake-prone…A close to $900,000 project to earthquake-strengthen and refurbish the courthouse and its surroundings started in February and was completed this week”- ODT It’s a good question from a commenter on Facebook… Why do the […]
Read more..October 5, 2018
