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fix(nz): add Matariki, King's Birthday#154

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The New Zealand public holidays are not up-to-date.

Matariki (the Māori name for the Pleiades star cluster) is a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar.

Matariki was made a public holiday in 2022. The formal definition is the Friday closest to the 4 days of the nights of Tangaroa in the lunar month Piripi in the Māori calendar, but practically, the Matariki Advisory Group determines the exact dates for the years ahead. In this PR I used the report published by the Matariki Advisory Group and hard coded the dates until 2052.

Another small change is that the Queen's Birthday is now the King's Birthday.

(Also missing are the regional holidays, which I'm planning to address in a separate PR)

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Thank you!

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