Mayor Calls for Matariki to replace Queen's Birthday

Submitted by LJ Holden on 23 June, 2009 - 09:50
Mayor of Waitakere Bob Harvey has called for Matariki, the Maori New Year, to replace Queen's Birthday as a public holiday:
“I have long been a supporter of the Matariki revival,” Mr Harvey says. “This is an event that only New Zealand can celebrate. It’s our very own. It is a festival born of our unique heritage, our culture, our land. It is more ‘us’ than our June public holiday, Queen’s Birthday.”

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