Whee. The Government is lining up a slew of happenings and occasions to be …
To be celebrated, we hopefully thought for a moment.
We were disabused on reading further into a press statement headed Government announces refreshed Commemorations Programme 2023-2027.
Commemoration does not necessarily mean celebration, but rather we are being advised of
‘… a programme of historical anniversaries to be acknowledged by the New Zealand Government over the next five years.”
The announcement was included in a mixed bag of press statements from the Beehive.
Others informed us that –