Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country's national day.

Waka are hitting the water at the Treaty Grounds while the prime minister is welcomed onto Ōnuku Marae in Akaroa.

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And while tensions between Māori and the Crown had calmed down relative to previous years, there was no shortage of protesters this Waitangi Day, Smith remembers. According to the news reports at ...

Prayers as dawn awakened for Waitangi Day...known as New Zealand's national day, which drew the biggest crowd in three decades. It was an early start at the ...