Why do we celebrate Waitangi Day?
Why do we celebrate Waitangi Day? We celebrate Waitangi day because it is the day that the treaty was on the 6th of February 1840 and the people who had signed that treaty was William Hobson and James Busby and the Maori chiefs.The treaty was signed by James Busby’s house.
Waitangi day is a day where everyone takes a day off because it is a public holiday.The first day of Waitangi day was on 1957 by the labour party. After their election, though, rather than create an entirely new public holiday, Labour passed the 1960 Waitangi Day Act.
This allowed individual localities to redesignate an existing public holiday as Waitangi Day. For instance, in 1963 Auckland Anniversary Day became Waitangi Day for Northland.
In 1971 Matiu Rata, Labour shadow minister for Maori Affairs, introduced a private members’ bill to make Waitangi Day a national public holiday in its own right. This bill failed, but after a successful 1972 election, Labour announced that from 1974 the 6th of February would be a national holiday called New Zealand Day. and thats why we celebrate Waitangi day.
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