New Zealand Day - Independence Day?

Submitted by LJ Holden on 8 February, 2011 - 08:27

Following Waitangi Day, Peter Dunne has called for the day to be either renamed New Zealand Day or a new day found (such as 26th September, Dominion Day) for New Zealand's national holiday. Prime Minister John Key has rejected the idea. Of course, there's no rule that a country must have one national holiday - after all, the US has its "Flag Day" and of course Independence Day. Perhaps the solution in New Zealand is to keep Waitangi Day, but create a new public holiday when we become a republic. There's an obvious candidate for abolition so businesses don't need to worry about the loss of productivity.

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Submitted by David H on 2 March, 2011 - 23:04.

This has nothing to do, so far as I can see, with the Republican debate. Republican, monarchist, whatever - "Waitangi" Day is meaningful, distinctive, special and traditional.

"Dominion" Day? You cannot be serious. Pedestrian at best. Clodhopping at worst. What a lack of imagination and style!

No class, as JFK might once have said.

 

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Submitted by LJ Holden on 3 March, 2011 - 10:36.

Well, for what it's worth, I'm proposing a "Republic Day" as a second national holiday, on whichever day we attain republican status.

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