[NZ] What's Waitangi Day?

[Scooter70]

My Dilbert calendar tells me that it's Waitangi Day in New Zealand. Can anyone tell me what it's all about?








(Yes, it's a slow day at the office today. Everyone must be off celebrating.)

[eboggs_jkvl]

All the guys go out and lay bait around to trap the Waitangi. It doesn't cook up well but it really is a challenge to trap. When they do catch one, they pluck a feather from it and add it to their ceremonial Waitangi headdress for the tribal dance on the full moon! All quite fun actually!

[Scooter70]

Mmmmm... tasty Waitangi. Have one for me.

Click here to see what a Waitangi looks like.

[Blacky]

All the guys go out and lay bait around to trap the Waitangi. It doesn't cook up well but it really is a challenge to trap. When they do catch one, they pluck a feather from it and add it to their ceremonial Waitangi headdress for the tribal dance on the full moon! All quite fun actually!

, But seriously.. its probably the opposite of Independance Day. Its the day NZ was overrun by the Pakeha (white man).

" Waitangi Day commemorates the signing of a treaty at Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by a group of Maori chiefs and the British Government, represented by Lieutenant-Governor Hobson. The treaty was subsequently signed by other Maori chiefs in various locations throughout the country. "

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/treaty/

Paul