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Police Museum Collections Curator Jessica Aitken recounts how white supremacist and murderer Lionel Terry began drawing the detective he obsessed over, Edward Eade.
It’s a strange collection of items in the cabinet as you walk through the front doors of the New Zealand Police Museum in Porirua. A caricature, an artwork and a sword. At first glance, nothing connects them. But together they are reminders of Detective Edward Eade, the murderer who became obsessed with him and the Chinese man who was shot in the street.
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Police Museum collections curator Jessica Aitken with the strange collection of items from Detective Edward Eade’s life.
The Human Rights Commission launched the Racism is no joke campaign in July 2020.
The inclusion of a poem by an anti-Chinese extremist in an NCEA level 2 history exam has students calling for better sourcing from the people making the exams. Cadence Chung, 17, sat her end-of-year history test which was about examining “sources of a historical event that is of significance to New Zealanders”. The exam focused on mental health facility, Seacliff, and included people s experiences there. A poem by Lionel Terry – an English man who handed out pamphlets on racial purity and is known for murdering Chinese man Joe Kum Yung on Wellington’s Haining St in 1905 – called Emotional Insanity was included.