New Zealand

New Zealand Public Holidays

2012 New Zealand Public Holidays

Waitangi Day       6 February 
Good Friday 6 April
Easter Monday 9 April
ANZAC Day 25 April
Queen's Birthday 4 June
Labour Day 22 October
Christmas Day 25 December
Boxing Day 26 December

 

 

  

 

 

 

New Zealand Regional Anniversary Holidays

Each province of New Zealand has a public holiday on its particular anniversary day. The anniversaries relate to the former provinces in the 19th Century, and not related to today’s districts and regions.

Southland 16 January
Wellington 23 January
Auckland 30 Janaury
Nelson 30 Janaury
Taranaki 12 March
Otago 26 March
South Canterbury 24 September
Hawkes Bay 19 October
Marlborough 29 October
Westland 03 December
Chatham Islands 03 December


 

 

 

About The Public Holidays

 - Waitangi Day celebrates the historic Treaty of Waitangi that was signed on 6 February, 1840.

 - ANZAC Day marks the 1915 landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli. 

 - The Queen's Birthday is a public holiday as she’s not just Queen to the UK but also in New Zealand.

 - Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. 

 

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