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Tuesday 15 November 2016

Kiwi Christmas

Did you know that Kiwi Christmas is less about snow and sleigh bells and more about sun, sand and barbecues in the backyard. At Christmas we tell stories about Christmases in the past or what we think it will be like in the future!  

 Beat you didn't know this fact that In 1642, Abel Tasman's crew celebrated the first Christmas dinner in New Zealand – freshly killed pork from the ship's menagerie washed down with 'extra rations of wine'. In 1769 James Cook's crew marked the occasion by feasting on ‘Goose pie.

What about this The Christmas Day service given by Church Missionary Society representative Samuel Marsden at Oihi Bay in the Bay of Islands in 1814 is often cited as the first in New Zealand, but did a French priest travelling with Jean François Marie de Surville in 1769 beat him to it?


Come late December and thousands of Kiwis get ready for their annual holidays. They look forward to lazy days at the beach, games of backyard cricket, food on the barbie and the holiday uniform of shorts, jandals and T-shirts.


I hope you have enjoyed learning about a Kiwi Christmas!

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