Manawatu-Wanganui Public Holidays

Manawatu-Wanganui Public Holidays is a Smart Calendar Feed covering the public holidays observed in New Zealand's Manawatu-Wanganui region, where national statutory dates are combined with a regional provincial anniversary observance. The calendar follows New Zealand's public-holiday framework, including weekend substitution rules for some holidays and the annual sequence of fixed civic and movable religious dates. That makes it a practical record of the non-working days that shape schools, government offices, transport timetables, and business operations across the region. It also distinguishes the regional holiday pattern from a New Zealand-wide summary that would omit the local anniversary date. The entries are single-day observances rather than timed events, so the focus stays on the holiday name and the day it is observed. National holidays such as Waitangi Day, King's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, and ANZAC Day sit alongside Easter observances, Matariki, and the region's own Provincial Anniversary Day. The sequence also includes the paired early-January holidays and substitute observances that appear when New Year's Day, Boxing Day, or Waitangi Day fall in a way that shifts the day off. Because New Zealand does not use the same regional anniversary date in every part of the country, the Manawatu-Wanganui list has a different planning value from a national-only holiday calendar. It is particularly useful for leave planning, payroll, and local service scheduling where substitute days can alter the normal weekly pattern. For organisations, schools, and households that need the regional holiday pattern in the same place as other commitments, the feed is free to subscribe in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Keeping the dates in a calendar app helps make school breaks, reduced trading days, and public-service closures visible without manual re-entry. That matters for employers operating across more than one New Zealand region, where anniversary days and observed substitutes do not always line up. When observance rules, substitute dates, or official corrections change for the region, regular updates carry those revisions into the calendar automatically.