The holiday, known as Waitangi Day, is held on Feb. 6 to mark the anniversary ... Several thousand people attended the event, with some reportedly holding signs splattered with fake blood, urging ...

Waitangi day is a non-working day just like any other ... This can be done with the display of signs detailing the surcharge, a message on the business's website, or by verbally letting the ...

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It's often a day marked by spirited politics and at times boisterous protest. But Thursday's anniversary of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi ...

Waitangi Day is celebrated every year on 6 February ... and use it as a tohu (sign) or a symbol of “how awesome we are as people when we come together”.

“Waitangi Day is a very important day in New Zealand for the very first time more than 24,000 deaf New Zealanders will be able to follow and understand the proceedings in New Zealand Sign ...

Waitangi Day is a day to celebrate being a New Zealander ... Te Arawa chiefs discussed the treaty and whether to sign it but did not sign the treaty. May 21 1840: Lieutenant-Governor Hobson ...

A Maori protester pokes out his tongue while marching on the Treaty Grounds during celebrations for the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand. Photo / NZPA Historian Buddy Mikaere imagines a Waitangi ...

As New Zealand commemorates 184 years since Māori leaders came together on the banks of the Waitangi River to sign a treaty with ... for the country's national day, which marks the anniversary ...

Thousands of people - and waka - gathered for commemorations to celebrate Waitangi Day today. Many had travelled ... Māori and Pākehā had come together to sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Prayers as dawn awakened for Waitangi Day...known as New Zealand's national ... In 1840, Māori leaders gathered on the banks to sign a treaty with the Crown. Today many of their descendants ...