THE FLAG IN AFRICA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1926, Page 7

THE FLAG IN AFRICA.

"JACK" AKB VrERKIXTTO. (Received 10.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, June 8. la the Assembly, Dr. Malan announced that the Governor-General had sent to London for His Majesty's information the details of the national flag design, also the clause dealing with flying the Union Jack and the national flag on official occasions. The Minister added that advice had been received that these matters had been laid before the King.— (Reuter.) A JUDICIOUS BLEND. MINISTERIAL APOLOGIST. (Received 2.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, June 8. In a letter to the Labour party, Colonel F. H. D. Creswell, leader of the party, defends his attitude on the flag question. He declared it is untrue that the Union Jack will be hauled jown aa a symbol of South African nationality. South Africa should have flags for both sections of the people or neither. The Union Jack would recall painful memories to the Dutch section, therefore, both sections could not stand, before it on an equal footing. The flag bill maintains the Union Jack as a symbol of relations with the Empire, but establishes another flag as a •ymbol of South African nationality without any reminder of past differences. He admits at first he thought a combination of the British and Republican flags •beet, but he is now convinced he had to recognise the feelings of the other jFde. He concludes by denouncing the agitation as engineered by the South African Press and politicians.—(A. and Jf.Z.)