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===New Zealand=== In [[New Zealand]], Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September and it is not a public holiday. Father's Day was first observed at [[St Matthew's, Auckland|St Matthew's Church]], [[Auckland]] on 14 July 1929<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19290713.2.125|title=Father's Day Service. (New Zealand Herald, 1929-07-13)|last=Zealand|first=National Library of New|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref> and first appeared in commercial advertising the following year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19300612.2.208.1|title=Page 27 Advertisements Column 1 (Auckland Star, 1930-06-12) - Milne & Choyce|last=Zealand|first=National Library of New|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref> By 1931 other churches had adopted the day and in 1935 much of Australia moved to mark the day at the beginning of September.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article180633089|title=27 Aug 1935{{snd}}"Father's Day"{{snd}}1 September|newspaper=Telegraph|date=27 August 1935 |access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref> New Zealand followed this, with a [[Wellington]] advert in 1937<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19370902.2.36.3|title=Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 1937-09-02) Woolworths, Wellington|last=Zealand|first=National Library of New|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref> and a [[Christchurch]] Salvation Army service in 1938.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19380903.2.177.2|title=Page 25 Advertisements Column 2 (Press, 1938-09-03) Salvation Army, Linwood, Christchurch|last=Zealand|first=National Library of New|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref>
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