Presented to the Dominion Museum for safe keeping, the white ensign flown by the battle-cruiser New' Zealand at the Battle of Jutland was originally 4ft. b’y Sft., but about one-third of its length is now missing. The ensign w r as presented by Admiral Sir John Green, w’ho commanded H.M.S. New Zealand at Jutland, to Mr. R. S. Hunter Blair, a New Zealander now living at Lothianburn, Edinburgh. In a letter to Mr. R. Darroch, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Navy League, Mr. Blair said the missing portion of the ensign had been blown off by gunfire and not by stress of weather as had previously been thought.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 July 1937, Page 7
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