Bill renaming Waitangi Day stopped in tracks
NZPA | Friday, 23 February 2007
United Future leader Peter Dunne says he will draft new legislation after learning his bill that proposed renaming Waitangi Day as New Zealand Day was being stopped in its tracks.
A parliamentary committee has examined Mr Dunne's New Zealand Day Bill which proposes renaming Waitangi Day and creating a new public holiday to be observed on the Monday of the week in which February 6 occurred.
His bill also proposes repealing the Waitangi Day Act 1976 which would remove any separate celebration of Waitangi Day.
Parliament's justice and electoral select committee received 22 submissions on the bill, most of which opposed it.
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