#Pommie bastard origin free#

My observation of Western Communists is that they are reactionary toward parents who put their own wealth and career ahead of family. He constructed nets and smoking rooms to feed the camp with fish.”- Story Tellers Guide “He was living in a conscientious objectors prison camp by the Tongariro river that was running out of food. He was locked up for four years in a Conchi Camp. As the likes of future Prime Minister Peter Fraser or Archie Baxter had famously done during the First World War, Smith became a Contentious Objector to the Second World War. At this point, Smith fell in with the Communists. The acclimatisation did not work on this one, it was a horror. The poor beast had bitten Smith after being caught in a trap and he could see no alternative.”- ODT “He quit after having to destroy his dog with a fence batten. “Unable to afford to keep his sons, he sent them to New Zealand, a land desperately looking for cheap farm labour.” The 15yo Joseph Stewart Smith (and his little brother) were probably selected for one of the above institutions³. Waitaki High School (image left) and Flock House both had acclimatisation programs for juvenile Britains. This same logic applied to the idea of growing the New Zealand population by importing young men from Britain. The message was clear: Take a wife, have more babies, grow this nation’s population! Coates would go further later, creating a ‘Bachelor Tax’ by providing a special tax threshold for the unmarried man.

#Pommie bastard origin free#

Coates followed up on his 1925 election promise by creating a family allowance for children Have more babies, pay less tax! This impulsive gesture to meet the fear of falling birth rates² flew in the face of what the free market was right to ‘desire’ (less breeding) as the challenge of the Great Depression was coming up on the horizon. Joseph Coates’ Government worried about population decline and employed their usual modus operandi of trying to stimulate it with State interference. How young Joseph came to be here was the doing of another Joseph, the Prime Minister. By this act, Stewart had projected his own unfelt feelings of violation and anger into New Zealanders and re-written the fresh water environment in the process. For some 50 years, Smith devoted himself to plucking British fish out of their natural environment and forcibly acclimatising them to the strange wilds of New Zealand. What we repress, we act out unconsciously.

All his long life Smith would look back upon his happy life growing up in London’s East End, “…a happy playground where he had mastered the art of catching tiddlers in the sandhill ponds by the age of 5, and this play developed into a lifelong passion” for recreational fishing¹. The final cut with home was being rejected at Southampton Dock by his father, posted like sea freight with his brother to be a Boy Farmer on the other side of the world.

Without any doubt, this was traumatic to young Stewart but he repressed it. Joseph Stewart Smith was a British boy of 15 in 1928 when he was plucked out of his native environment and forcibly acclimatised to the strange wilds of New Zealand.