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When New Zealand celebrates its national day on February 6, its governments have been known to treat the day with nervousness, if not outright dread, writes Michael Belgrave.

Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's founding document: The Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Māori. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon bucked tradition by choosing not ...

Kaihoe (waka paddlers) warm up with paddle drills ahead of this morning's Waitangi Day waka display. Photo / Michael Cunningham Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other politicians have gathered ...

Trading restrictions don't apply to Waitangi Day in the way they would for Easter holidays, Christmas, or the first half of Anzac Day - but you may have to pay a surcharge.

New Zealand Maori activist Tame Iti gestures at the Waitangi Treaty House grounds ahead of Waitangi Day celebrations in Waitangi, northern New Zealand, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.

The Waitangi Day national holiday celebrates the signing of the treaty of Waitangi on February 6, 1840 by Maori chiefs and the British Crown, ...

14 September 2010. Press release: Perth visit by top New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi Pakeha activist, author & educator – Robert Consedine. One of New Zealand’s most experienced Treaty of ...

Waitangi Day is considered to be New Zealand’s national day and has been observed as a public holiday since 1974. Read More New Māori queen, 27, crowned in New Zealand as her father is buried ...

If Waitangi Day was to fall on a Saturday or Sunday, (which is not a working day for most employees), then the public holiday would be treated as falling on the following Monday. “If you ordinarily ...

Eventually, a national holiday was granted from 1974 onwards, but it was called “New Zealand Day”; however, only a few years later, the Waitangi Day Act 1976 reinstated the name to Waitangi Day.