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How many working days in year 1987?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1987 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 1987.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 1987
2. Day after New Year's Day : Friday, 2 January, 1987
3. Auckland Day : Monday, 26 January, 1987
4. Waitangi Day : Friday, 6 February, 1987
5. Good Friday : Friday, 17 April, 1987
6. Easter Monday : Monday, 20 April, 1987
7. Anzac Day Observance : Monday, 27 April, 1987
8. Queen's Birthday : Monday, 1 June, 1987
9. Labour Day : Monday, 26 October, 1987
10. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 1987
11. Boxing Day Observance : Monday, 28 December, 1987

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Anzac Day : Saturday, 25 April, 1987
2. Boxing Day : Saturday, 26 December, 1987