Waitangi commemorations in Paihia will also have their share of fun. The week-long commemorations culminate on Waitangi Day. Despite the often hot and sticky February weather, people bundle up in ...

More of RNZ's Waitangi Day coverage: From Tangata Whenua to Tangata ... could experience the atmosphere here - the passion, the fun, the colour, the kotahitanga. It is a very special thing." ...

Prayers as dawn awakened for Waitangi Day...known as New Zealand's national day, which drew the biggest crowd in three decades. It was an early start at the ...