On 21 September 1863, John Grigg arrived in New Zealand on the Annie Wilson with his wife and three children. Following his wife Emma’s death in 1867, John moved from Auckland to Thames. He subsequently married his second wife Sarah, who also pre-deceased him, and some years later he
Redline rdln.wordpress.com Attitudes in this country have changed considerably over the past century and racism is far less overt than it once was. However, racism still persists and is most blatant when it comes to refugees and migrants who are still too frequently viewed as less worthy of
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “Fiat” means “let it be so”. Fiat money is token currency supplied and regulated by governments and central banks. Its value relies on a government decree that it alone must be used as “legal tender” in paying for anything in that country. Its value falls as
Hongi Hika learns that the Rotorua Maori had supported the Waikato, Auckland and Thames Maori. So he puts his warriors and his muskets in his war canoes and paddles south again to attack the Rotorua Maori, starting with their coastal forts at Maketu and Mount Maunganui at Tauranga. The fortress
Those were the last words of Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton as he jumped into the fray to support a wavering force trapped in an ambush at Gate Pa in the Tauranga campaign of 1884. He was felled by a Kingitanga bullet moments later. Like many British officers, he charged
I think we should start a “Socialists who are shit” series. Today’s face of the day Che Guevara is the hero of many a Leftie who proudly wears this racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, terrorist scumbag’s face on their T-shirts. In 1950s Cuba, inspired by Marxist communism, Argentinian-born Ernesto ‘Che’
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The great ‘Awokening’ is upon us. The mania for seeking racial justice by toppling statues of dead white men has spread to New Zealand. Gisborne’s statue of Captain James Cook was targeted on Friday with swastikas and inane sloganeering. Pure idiocy. The dropkicks who advocate this rubbish aren’t
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for
Alwyn Poole From being so long in education I tend to think about what we are saying to our young when adults make decisions and how much we encourage them to think deeply about issues. Apart from the stupidity of our current economics, I heard Grant Robertson regarding Olympic protests
So now Google has officially DELETED Churchill but kept Hitler and Stalin. Let that sink in. pic.twitter.com/qn6llQpUKX — Avi Yemini ???? (@OzraeliAvi) June 14, 2020
Boomers are a funny lot. Their grasp of history seems to begin in the 1950s and end in the 80s. The apex of history, of course, was the middle 60s. The founders of climate alarmism are all boomers. So it’s no surprise that they seem to imagine that the
