Waitangi day, the national day of New Zealand, marks the anniversary of the initial singing on the 6th of Febuary 1840 of the treaty of waitangi. Waitangi Day was first celebrated in 1934, and it was made a national public holiday in 1974. The anniversary is marked annually on the 6th of February, and a public holiday is observed on the day, or if the date falls on a Saturday or Sunday then the following Monday is observed. Waitangi day is one of New Zealands most significant historic sites.
Waitangi day was created because it was to celebrate the formal handing over of the Bledisloe’s gift of land, with around 10,000 Māori from across New Zealand attending to honour and celebrate the gift. This became the first official celebration of Waitangi Day. The reason of Waitangi day is because it marks the date on which the representatives of the British Crown and over 500 Rangatira (Māori chiefs/leaders) came together to sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi in a place called Waitingi.
For Waitangi day, personally I dont do anything for it. I just sleep in and do what I would normally do on a holiday. Some people do stuff on Waitangi day like eat traditional food which would most likely to be Maori food, some people do Maori dances and some people watch waka canoe races. Lots of people do different things.