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This is a project page for Waitangi Day 2025 at Ōnuku Marae, Akaroa Harbour (the usual Okains Bay celebration is just a family fun day instead). From the Ngāi Tahu news page: "Every year Ngāi Tahu commemorates Waitangi Day at one of three locations where iwi tīpuna signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi – Ōnuku, Awarua and Ōtākou.
There have been two Waitangi Day acts passed by the New Zealand Parliament: the Waitangi Day Act 1960 and the Waitangi Day Act 1976. Neither made 6 February (Waitangi Day) a public holiday; this was done by the New Zealand Day Act 1973. The first Waitangi Day act acknowledged the Treaty of Waitangi.
The document ends with, "Done at Waitangi on the 4th Feb 1840". [4] The text is virtually identical to the English text of the Treaty that James Reddy Clendon , the United States Consul to New Zealand, dispatched to the United States on 20 February 1840, except for the date at the end, which Clendon's copy had as 6 February instead of 4 ...
In December 2023, activist group Te Waka Hourua defaced the English version of the Treaty of Waitangi at the "Signs of a Nation" exhibition at Te Papa Museum in Wellington. The group accused the Museum of "perpetuating a lie long used by the government to trample Māori rights and enforce colonial rule on the land and its people."
At 9.30 am on 6 February 1840, missionaries set out from Paihia to Waitangi. There they found some 300 to 400 Māori “scattered in small parties according to their tribes” – a smaller gathering than the day before, but still a fair number. However there was no sign of William Hobson.
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed between many, but not all, Māori tribes and the British Crown at Waitangi on 6 February 1840 - giving both parties certain rights and privileges.
Waitangi Day (Māori: Te Rā o Waitangi), the national day of New Zealand, marks the anniversary of the initial signing—on 6 February 1840—of the Treaty of Waitangi.The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement towards British sovereignty by representatives of the Crown and indigenous Māori chiefs, and so is regarded by many as the founding document of the nation.
Section 9 read, "9. Treaty of Waitangi — Nothing in this Act shall permit the Crown to act in a manner that is inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi." [4] Section 27 concerned land transferred under the Act which was subject to a Waitangi Tribunal claim prior to the Governor-General's assent of the Act, 18 December 1986. [5]