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New Zealand's national day 6 February renamed from New Zealand Day to Waitangi Day; Matrimonial Property Act passed. Pacific Islands "overstayers" deported. EEC import quotas for New Zealand butter set until 1980. Introduction of metric system of weights and measures. Subscriber toll dialling introduced. Lyttelton–Wellington steamer ferry ...
At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. [68] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
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.
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Although the current New Zealand flag remains a popular symbol of New Zealand, there have been proposals from time to time for the New Zealand flag to be changed. Proponents of a new flag argued "[t]he current New Zealand Flag is too colonial and gives the impression that New Zealand is still a British colony and not an independent nation."
[50] [51]: pp 4-25 The 'understand' component centres around four big ideas: Māori history is the foundational and continuous history of Aotearoa New Zealand; colonisation and settlement have been central to Aotearoa New Zealand's histories for the past 200 years; the course of Aotearoa New Zealand's histories has been shaped by the use of ...
This is a timeline of environmental history of New Zealand. ... It attracted 341,160 signatures by the time it was presented to Parliament in 1977.
At the time, New Zealand was not known as an intellectual country. [368] From the early 20th century until the late 1960s, Māori culture was suppressed by the attempted assimilation of Māori into British New Zealanders. [341] In the 1960s, as tertiary education became more available, and cities expanded [369] urban culture began to dominate ...