Waitangi Day
Sir, —As an English-born resident of New Zealand who considers herself now to be a New Zealander, I felt deeply humiliated by the televised Waitangi Day broadcast. On this, New Zealand’s national day, we saw the Union Jack run up the flagstaff as New Zealand’s flag, and heard “God Save the Queen” as our national anthem. Are we a selfgoverning nation or still a colony? We have our own national flag, which retains the Union Jack in the most important quarter, for those who like to demonstrate their allegiance to Britain, and we have our own national anthem. Did the people who designed the flag and who wrote “God Defend New Zealand? do it all for nothing? I fully realise that the Queen is nominally the head of our country but I feel that we are carrying our servility to the extent of ridiculousness. —Yours, etc. J. M. TAYLOR. February 7, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31598, 8 February 1968, Page 10
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