Only THURSDAY – seems like a long week

Today is Waitangi Day – New Zealand’s National Day. It is a holiday held annually on February 6th to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi – New Zealand’s founding document – on February 6th 1840.

The Treaty made New Zealand a part of the British Empire, guaranteed Māori rights to their land and gave Māori the rights of British citizens. The treaty was signed in Waitangi, a town in the Bay of Islands, by a group of Maori chiefs and the British Government, as represented by Lieutenant-Governor Hobson.

In February 1840, it was at Te Tii marae where Ngāpuhi (the largest Māori iwi – tribe) hosted around 10,000 Māori to debate the agreement for several days. On February 6th, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed by around 40 Māori rangatira (chiefs) and representatives of the British Crown outside British Government Representative James Busby’s house (now known as Treaty House) on the Waitangi grounds.The treaty (‘te Tiriti’) was subsequently signed by another 500 Māori chiefs in various locations throughout the country.

There are significant differences between the Māori and English language versions of the Treaty, and since 1840 the question of what obligations the Treaty of Waitangi placed on each side has been a subject of contention ever since.

Chihuahua or Blueberry Muffin?

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Bilbo has raised the National Stupidity Condition to DumbCon -2

Today is the birthday, in 1944, of Georgeanna Tillman American singer, famed for her tenure in the Motown all-female singing group the Marvelettes who scored the 1961 US No.1 single ‘Please Mr Postman’. She died on 6 January 1980, of complications from Sickle Cell Disease and Lupus, one month before her 36th birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us18AUBM2RI