FLAGS FOE THE FLEET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18706, 12 May 1924, Page 12

FLAGS FOE THE FLEET

TATTERS IN, WELLINGTON. MANY BLOWN TO' SEBEDS. ; si " Thanks to ', the gentle,zephyrs,' which V have been almost incessant; during , the■■;; v stay the I Special ?. Service. Squadron in Wellington/' says'; the ; Post, "few 'of the .;;,-: ■ flags which have been hung ; qufc to ; honour I§jp the naval visitors are now intact;' The ; paper >. remarks that in bursts of patriot- , ism, ; schoolmasters and politicians are ' < sometimes ; wont- to refer, to the Union Jack as the flag that has braved a "thousand years the battle and • the " breeze." .-, Most of < the,-;bits of bunting flaunting from the tops of flagpoles on high herd- ; ing. in' Wellington • certainly bear 7 out : s :-| Campbell's beautiful sentiment, ■ for many \ of them appear as if they had been thron .1 a thousand battles already. ,-•--- , • ■ - <; ;i < -The southerly gaje of the previous week-, •' end•?'played- havoc with the Union Jack l£ and the New Zealand Ensign-on - niosf Vi ,-Wellingtonian flagstaffa, but, although almost; torn; to shreds;;; they, throughout list week, continued to-bid' defiance to any suggestion -of more '<>■ stormy winds which -.- might feel inclined to blow. Some purists in the correct use of flags have* seen some remarkable misplacements at the halyards.