Do people in New Zealand celebrate Halloween?

It does have its roots in England, as All Hallow's Eve.

We do celebrate Halloween to a certain extent; it's certainly not on the same scale as it might be in the US or UK. The advertising for crap merchandising starts about a month in advance.

Then, of course, we have Guy Fawkes on November 5, which is even more pointless, I reckon. I don't particularly like it due to the noise. And certain people seem to like letting off fireworks during the graveyard hours (such as 2 AM).

I reckon we ought to shift fireworks from Guy Fawlkes to Matauriki (Maori New Year) - at least then there would be little risk of fire and you wouldn't have to wait till 10pm for it to be dark enough to see anything!

Heh I'd go down that street. But now that you mentchion it back where I used to go to get lumber when my father had his fence co. There was a street sign called Fox st.

We've got towns called Foxton and Bunnythorpe... and they're not far from Bulls, either

The primary purpose of Bulls is to furnish tourists with god-awful puns - for example, the local police station is labelled "Const-a-bull", shops are labelled "Afford-a-bull" and the local bank branch is "Bank-a-bull".
Apparently the town of Bulls is twinned with... Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK

That's just Remark-a-bull. *snickers and runs.*

So Predict-a-bull

Aint it always good lookn. *smirks.*

*laughs*

That's the perfect street to trick or treat.

I wonder if many kids go trick-or-treating up Baldwin St in Dunedin...that'd be a hell of a climb.

No problem...just grab a stake, some garlic, and a cross and you'll be fine! XD

... including the town of Te Puke (pronounced "Teh Puh-keh", would you believe).

But we've got weird things as well - birds with no wings, mountain parrots, and ground-dwelling insects the size of mice...

The "huge-ass ground bugs" are called [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta]wetas[url], ecologically speaking, they fulfil the role of mice and rats in the native New Zealand ecosystem as until human colonisation there were practically no land-mammals (apart from bats).
Wetas are harmless, but look like a cricket designed by the guy who came up with the xemomorph in "Aliens" :)

I posted an example of the latest weird-assed NZ name story here in the FA foraums, it's worth a giggle :)

The "huge-ass ground bugs" are called wetas, ecologically speaking, they fulfil the role of mice and rats in the native New Zealand ecosystem as until human colonisation there were practically no land-mammals (apart from bats).
Wetas are harmless, but look like a cricket designed by the guy who came up with the xemomorph in "Aliens" :)

I posted an example of the latest weird-assed NZ name story here in the FA foraums, it's worth a giggle :)

(Apologies for the double-post, mucked up the weta link)

..... That street looks rather ominous....

That's cool and a little creepy at the same time.

well, that is that... and it has no exit, too.

but my hometown has a Hack Street. I guess it could be more dangerous in times. :)

If it's not weird-assed landbugs, it's thieving parrots like me. Heyhey, shiny things.