Waitangi Day

Prime Minister John Key has told iwi the Government could yet agree to a Treaty of Waitangi clause in legislation on the partial sale of state assets.

Prime Minister John Key said it would be disappointing if the traditional politicians' visits to Te Tii marae before Waitangi Day were halted.

About 100 people gathered in the Octagon, Dunedin, yesterday to share music and education, and celebrate Waitangi Day.

The Queenstown Gardens came to life yesterday afternoon with hundreds of people lounging on the grass in the sun during the resort's first official Waitangi Day celebrations.

New Zealand's 172nd birthday is celebrated at Waitangi and around the South.

Photos by The New Zealand Herald and Otago Daily Times photographers. ODT photo prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

Waitangi Day is what we make of it, says Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres.

Summer may have been mixed - to say the least - but it's looking good for a fine Waitangi weekend for most, the MetService says.

Prime Minister John Key has snubbed the idea of introducing a "New Zealand Day".

If there is much that is to be admired, albeit sometimes grudgingly, about that rather large and self-professed "lucky country" across the Tasman - and from which on days like today we could learn a thing or two - it is the way in which it celebrates Australia Day.

Prime Minister John Key will use his first annual Waitangi Day address this morning to tackle extremists on both sides of the race relations divide, saying they cynically damage the goodwill needed to put an end to grievance in New Zealand.