Waitangi Day Nz 2025. In partnership with whakatu marae, founders heritage park, and nelson city council, this special event honours aotearoa’s. Waitangi day is celebrated annually on february 6 to commemorate the signing of the treaty of waitangi, new zealand’s founding document.

190 years ago, chiefs from northland through the hawke’s bay and waikato signed he whakaputanga o te. Come together this te rā o waitangi and visit he tohu at the national library to see the nine original sheets of 1840 te tiriti o waitangi and the treaty of waitangi.