FLAGS
Sir,—For some time I have noted the erratic flying of the flag from the District Railway Office. Moorhouse avenue. The department does not entirely dissociate itself from this form of public observance, as the flag was flown on St. Patrick’s Day. St. Andrew, however, was not so honoured. Today, while other Government buildings acknowledge Dominion Day, the railway office remains aloof with undecorated flagpole. Others have doubtless noted this omission. Is it a matter of prejudice, laziness, or just plain departmental inefficiency?— Yours, etc., CURIOSITY. December 17, 1956. [“The flying of flags on Government buildings on Monday, December 17, was in honour of the Duke of Edinburgh and not for Dominion Day, which the fourth Monday in September,” said the district traffic manager of the Railways Department (Mr E W. Hayton). “As the only flag available at the Lyttelton station was a Union Jack, it was decided to forward the New Zealand Ensign from the District Office to that station as the Royal visitor’s headquarters were aboard H.M.Y. Britannia. An ensign was, of course, flown from the Christchurch station on this occasion.”!
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28159, 24 December 1956, Page 15
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