1974 New Zealand Day

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		Cat.	Mint Unhinged	Fine Used
4c	Treaty House at Waitangi	196a	$0.65	$0.45
4c	Signing the Treaty of Waitangi	196b	$0.65	$0.45
4c	Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II	196c	$0.65	$0.45
4c	Parliament Buildings and the Beehive	196d	$0.65	$0.45
4c	Maori and Pakeha Children Studying Together	196e	$0.65	$0.45

	Set of 5	196f	$3.10	$2.15

20c	Miniature Sheet with five 4 cent stamps	196g	$2.70	$2.70
	… Five Stamps : 4c (196a), 4c (196b), 4c (196c), 4c (196d), 4c (196e)

	Miniature Sheet First Day Cover - 5 February 1974	196h		$4.25
	… 20c (196g)

After the 1972 election of Norman Kirk's Labour government, it was announced that from 1974 Waitangi Day would be a national holiday to be known as New Zealand Day. The New Zealand Day Act was passed in 1973.

The change signified that New Zealand was ready to move towards a broader concept of nationhood. At the 1974 celebrations, the New Zealand Flag was flown instead of the the Union Flag for the first time at Waitangi and a replica of the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand was also flown.

When National regained power in 1975, New Zealand Day was renamed Waitangi Day because Prime Minister Robert Muldoon did not like the name "New Zealand Day" although many Maori felt the new name debased the Treaty of Waitangi.

Bibliography

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume VI

Edited by D. E. G. Naish FRPSNZ and K. J. McNaught FRPSNZ FRPSL

Publsihed 1975 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated

Pages 191 - 192

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