Ready to go out for Chinese New Year's / Waitangi Day

Cocktails and reading (my two main activities here)

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February 11th 2008
As promised, the continuation of the blog I wrote last night. Last week my flatmates and I went out a couple of times for cocktails, and one time for Chinese New Year’s on the 6th of February. Coincidentally, it was also Waitangi Day, the national (but in reality Maori) holiday. The Octagon in the centre of town was closed for traffic and there was a stage and some stands for Chinese New Year’ ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more