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Anniversary days celebrated, from as early as 1843, the first arrivals of settlers in each province. [4] By 1846 the Wellington Anniversary Day was described as having the appearance of an English Fair. [5] Half-holidays, or early closing days, were widespread from the 1900s to 1970s.
KapCon is a role-playing convention held annually in Wellington, New Zealand. [1] It is one of the largest gaming conventions in New Zealand, and the longest running, having run every Wellington Anniversary Weekend (the weekend closest to 22 January) since 1993. The con is small by international standards, attracting around a hundred and fifty ...
Aurora was the first New Zealand Company settler ship to arrive in Wellington, landing at Petone on 22 January 1840. The date is commemorated as Wellington Anniversary Day, and the ship is memorialised in a sculpture at the Petone Settlers Museum.
The sesquicentennial anniversary of the capital moving to Wellington was celebrated on the weekend of 25 and 26 July 2015. A concert organised by Wellington City Council [38] was held in front of Parliament House and a light show depicting the history of Wellington projected onto the front of the building. [39]
Wellington Province's new eastern boundary followed the main divide of the eastern ranges, and cut across from just south of Woodville to the east coast near Cape Turnagain. [1] Thus Wellington lost about a third of its area, [2] leaving it with a territory roughly the same as the combined present-day Manawatū-Whanganui and Wellington regions.
Auckland Anniversary Day is a public holiday observed in the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand, being the area's provincial anniversary day. It is observed throughout the historic Auckland Province , even though the provinces of New Zealand were abolished in 1876.