The government officially observes its anniversary as a national holiday.

Don't we celebrate Thanksgiving every year and observe it as a national holiday?

After that time however, the traditional date of January 6 was restored and has since been observed once again as a national public holiday.

He noted that Christmas is widely observed as a secular holiday on which, for example, public employees get a day off with pay.

Easter Tuesday was also observed as a public holiday in Victoria until 1994.

The Queen's Birthday is observed as a public holiday in all states.

It was a public observed as a public holiday.

This has been observed as a holiday in some Commonwealth countries.

In 1971, the General Assembly recommended that member states observe it as a public holiday.

Yesterday being observed as a holiday, officials at several large private hospitals were not available to comment.