ChCh Libraries - Anzac Day and Gallipoli: 25 April. Britannica school. Te Ara - Public holidays - ANZAC Day. Labour Day The first Labour Day was celebrated by trade unionists on 28 October 1890, as part of a campaign to have the eight-hour working day extended to all industries. Some New Zealand workers had enjoyed that right since 1840, when it was first demanded by Wellington carpenter Samuel Duncan Parnell. Tomato time New Zealand’s Labour Day occurs in mid-spring, when the weather is becoming warmer.
According to New Zealand gardeners’ lore, you should plant tomatoes on Labour Weekend to ensure the best possible crop. Although the government was reluctant to enforce the eight-hour working day across the board, it did pass the Labour Day Act 1899 to establish a public holiday on the second Wednesday of October. Early Labour Days were marked by big parades, with unionists marching behind banners and elaborate floats. Lest we forget The dedication read at dawn services on Anzac Day concludes with the fourth verse of Laurence Binyon’s poem ‘For the fallen’: We will remember them.1 Anzac Day.
AnyQuestions. Ngai Tahu -From the pā to the battlefields of the Great War - Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. Nā Kurt Mclauchlan Private George Skerrett. Tūhaitara. Maru. Tūhawaiki. These are our tīpuna, men and women whose names are immortalised in our legends and waiata for their actions in the defence and advancement of our lands and peoples. He Rau Mahara, a project being undertaken by the Whakapapa Unit of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, seeks to do the same for those Ngāi Tahu men who served in the Great War of 1914–1918. Although the project has yet to be completed, it has already received considerable praise, with the WWI Centenary Committee, 28th Māori Battalion, and the Canterbury Museum endorsing the programme of work.
Over the last year, the Whakapapa Unit has been working with the whānau of Ngāi Tahu soldiers, conducting interviews and poring over diaries, letters, and military records to uncover stories that have never been shared. Allanah Burgess, the lead advisor for this project, says she has been truly struck by the stories and materials that their research has brought to light. NZ History: ANZAC Day - The Gallipoli campaign. Each year on Anzac Day, New Zealanders (and Australians) mark the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings of 25 April 1915. On that day, thousands of young men, far from their homes, stormed the beaches on the Gallipoli Peninsula in what is now Turkey. For eight long months, New Zealand troops, alongside those from Australia, Great Britain and Ireland, France, India, and Newfoundland battled harsh conditions and Ottoman forces desperately fighting to protect their homeland.
By the time the campaign ended, more than 130,000 men had died: at least 87,000 Ottoman soldiers and 44,000 Allied soldiers, including more than 8700 Australians. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders, about a sixth of all those who had landed on the peninsula. In the wider story of the First World War, the Gallipoli campaign made no large mark. NZ on Screen - Anzac Day Collection.