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Waitangi Day – 6 February

This day commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and a number of Maori Chiefs at the residence of the official British resident at Waitangi, James Busby, in the Bay of Islands. At this time there were about 2000 Europeans and 200,000 Maori residing […]