THE BLUE ENSIGN

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 8

THE BLUE ENSIGN

(To the Editor.) . Sir,—lt may interest you to know that a motion to adopt the Blue Ensign (with a maple leaf in the fly) as the national flag of' Canada has already been presented in the Canadian House of Commons, and is to come up again later in the. session. Without wishing to discuss the right. o£ Canada to take liberties with the Ensigns of the Royal Navy, I would respectfully ask that you use all your influence to cause a protest to be made against this piracy of what has so long been regarded as the national flag of New Zealand. : If this is permitted it will create confusion on sea and land wherever your flag is flown. I spent the_ happiest years'-of my life in your country and appreciate the honest loyalty of your peoplej and I resent this interference with your flag.— I am, etc;, ..-'.-•■:., ;'.... .. . ; •■'CHARLES SAYXAN. Ottawa, Canada; Feb. .26. : ■ ' [The present. Canadian flag is a red ensign witli; the .armorial '.bearings of the •Dominion von'the- fly. The New Zealand flag is \a blue .'ensign\'with; >the Southern Cross's.;-'.(red 'stars witli' -white border) on the "fly. 'The Australian^flag is' also a/iblue ' '.ensign with a large' six pointed star,'emblematic of the-six States, immediately under the union, and an additional small star' in the ■; device; •■ of the Southern Cross. The stars on the Australian flag,-are -white.- The proposed Canadian flag will result' in greater, confusion th'an'tUat which, might: exist between the flags of New, Zealand' and Australia.]