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If the employee works on the weekends, then the holiday is taken on that day. [15] Christmas Day and New Years' Day have always been Mondayised holidays, and from 2013 Waitangi Day and Anzac Day are also Mondayised. [16] Waitangi Day and Anzac Day are always commemorated on the exact date, as they remember specific historical events. The ...
In 1920 the Reform Government of New Zealand passed the Anzac Day Act 1920 to make the day an official public holiday. This stated that the day was in "commemoration of the part taken by New Zealand troops in World War I , and in memory of those who gave their lives for the Empire " rather than only those who died at Gallipoli.
Public holidays in New Zealand in 2025 are as follows: [29] 1 January – New Year's Day; 2 January – Day after New Year's Day; 6 February – Waitangi Day; 18 April – Good Friday; 21 April – Easter Monday; 25 April – Anzac Day; 2 June – King's Birthday; 20 June – Matariki; 27 October – Labour Day; 25 December – Christmas Day ...
Public holidays in New Zealand in 2023 are as follows: [156] 1 January – New Year's Day; 2 January – Day after New Year's Day; 3 January – New Year's Day observed; 6 February – Waitangi Day; 7 April – Good Friday; 10 April – Easter Monday; 25 April – Anzac Day; 5 June – King's Birthday; 14 July – Matariki; 23 October ...
At dawn on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula ...
Pages in category "Public holidays in New Zealand" ... Anzac Day; Anzac Day Act (New Zealand) ... King's Official Birthday; M. Matariki; N. New Year's Day; New ...
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches Thursday to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day. New Zealand Prime Minister ...
Anzac Day was gazetted as a public holiday in New Zealand in 1920, through the Anzac Day Act, after lobbying by the New Zealand Returned Services' Association, [30] the RSA. [31] Anzac Day at Manly, Queensland, 1922. In Australia at the 1921 State Premiers' Conference, it was decided that Anzac Day would be observed on 25 April each year. [32]