New Zealand Poll Suggests Growing Support For ANZAC Day As National Day

Sources: Radio New Zealand and New Zealand public holidays. A recent poll by Research New Zealand shows that 38% of those questioned supported Anzac Day (April 25) being marked as New Zealand's national day, while 52% favoured keeping Waitangi Day as the national day.

This is the first confirmation of the generally felt, but hitherto unmeasured, sentiment against Waitangi Day, as a reminder of the February 6, 1840, Treaty of Waitangi, which is held in low regard by Maoris and by increasing numbers of the younger generation of New Zealanders of European origin.