Tarara Day

{{Short description|New Zealand national holiday}}

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Tarara Day is held every year on 15 March in New Zealand. It is the day when Tarara—descendants of Croatian men who arrived in the 1890s to dig gum and of Māori women—celebrate their combined heritage.{{Cite book|last=Božić-Vrbančić|first=Senka|title=Croats And Maori In New Zealand: Memory, Belonging, Identity|publisher=Otago University Press|date=1 July 2008|pages=268|isbn=978-1-877372-09-4}}{{Cite web|url = http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30253/tarara-day|title = Tarara Day|accessdate = 11 August 2013|publisher = Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}{{cite web|url=http://croatian-archive.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/tarara-day-2009.html|title=Tarara Day 2009 |date=6 May 2009|publisher=Croatian Archive Association of Australia|accessdate=11 August 2013}}