Southland Anniversary Day in New Zealand
Southland Anniversary Day in New Zealand is held on April 22. Date for 2024. Holiday is actually the 17th of January but it is observed on Easter Tuesday. This was decided in December 2011 by the mayors of Invercargill, Southland, and Gore districts. This event in the third decade of the month April is annual. 
Help us
Help us 
Southland, on New Zealand's South Island, is a land of rugged coast and rolling plains.There is plenty to see and do in Southland. From early Māori heritage, to the legendary Burt Munro, to the petrified forest on the Catlins Coast, you will find evidence of New Zealand's history everywhere in Southland.
The first Europeans on the South Island's southern coast were the sealers of the late 1700s. Māori had arrived over 600 years prior to the first Europeans and bountiful fish and birds attracted seafaring Māori to Bluff.
If you look at an aerial map of New Zealand, you'll see how the North Island resembles a fish. Māori believe the far north to be the tail of the fish and Wellington Harbour the mouth.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
NZ Army Day on March 25
Kapyong Day on April 24 (Australia, Canada, New Zealand);
Anzac Day on April 25 (Australia, New Zealand, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Western Samoa. It commemorates the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - ANZAC - on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915);
International Sculpture Day on April 26 (Held on the last Saturday of April);
Mother’s Day on May 11 (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe);
National Chocolate Fish Day in New Zealand on May 11
Gospel Day in Palmerston, Cook Islands on May 25 (commemorating the arrival of Christianity on this atoll)