THE UNION JACK
Lord Bledisloe and Special Flag London, July 21. Opening the Earl of Meath room at the Royal .Empire Society Building, Lord Bledisloe remarked that the Union Jack was much more revered than when the Earl of Meath, who founded Empire Day, had to fight to get it flown. The South African Government had proposed when Lord Bledisloe was Governor-General of New Zealand that Governors-General should fly a special flag, replacing the Union Jack. Lord Bledisloe said that he adversely commented on the proposal to tlie King, but that the arrival of the new flags anticipated a reply. Lord Bledisloe put them in the cellar and told the Prime Minister, who said that Lord Bledisloe might expect a mutiny if he flew any other flag than the Union Jack. “As far as I am aware,” he said, “that bundle of flags still lies unregretted in the cellars at Government House at Wellington.”
Inquiries at Government House yesterday elicited that the bundle of flags no longer lies in the cellar there. All Governors-General. to-day fly the special flag referred to by Lord Bledisloe, and ever since the present Governor, Lord Galway, arrived in the Dominion, the appropriate flag lias waved over Government House, instead of tlie Union Jack.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 254, 23 July 1937, Page 11
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209THE UNION JACK Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 254, 23 July 1937, Page 11
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