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Auckland Anniversary Day - 26 jan

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February 14th 2009
Monday 26th January 2009 AUCKLAND ANNIVERSARY DAY Today is a public holiday (not that is matters as all days are holidays to me right now) to commemorate the arrival of some dude up in the Bay of Islands in 1840 (?) who later became the first Governeor of New Zealand. Its seems to me that the Kiwis do like any excuse to shut up shop and head to the beach for a long weekend (they are barely ... 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