Flags and Coronation Week

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 192, 11 May 1937, Page 11

Flags and Coronation Week

Sir, —Various public bodies in Wellington, including the city corporation, also business houses, are using flags of various foreign countries for decorative purposes during Coronation Week. , Surely this is an occasion when British institutions and British firms should limit themselves to the bunting of their own nation? Let the representatives of other lands, who live among us, fly their respective flags—a welcome and friendly gesture—but let us fly our own. For the city corporation to drape the Stars and Stripes from its pylons, as it is doing, is quite ridiculous, and makes a laughing stock of symbolism. -! am, etc., Wellington, May 10. Sir, —One cannot but be gratified at. the extent of the Coronation decorations erected by the city corporation and the Government; the display is a matter for congratulation. However, one may be pardoned for inquiring why, on this purely British occasion, the flags of foreign nations should be so often displayed in company with the fla"s of the British Commonwealth. Is there a shortage of bunting?—l am, etC ” JOHN E. HUNT, President, The English Home Counties Society. Wellington, May 10.