THEIR NATIONAL COLOUR.
1 Has ever struck you which colour is most often seen in the flags of the "world? Probably it hasn't, because there are not many people who can recognise more than half a dozen flags at.the outside. Well, the most popular colour is red, which is found in the standards of no fewer than nineteen countries out of twenty-five. Practically every one of the European states, together with Mexico, Venezuela, Chilij and Cuba boast the colour red in their national flags.
Blue is found in the emblems of the JJnited States, Russia, France, Great Britain, Holland, Ecuador, Sweden, Chili, Portugal, Venezuela and Cuba. Black ia not at all popular, being found only in the cases of Germany, Belgium and China, while Germany is Noticeable for having black and white together. Nine countries boast of a flag partly yellow^ viz., Austria, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, Persia, Sweden, Egypt, China, and Venezuela. To Ecuador belongs the distinction of having a standard nearer white than any other country.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 May 1913, Page 7
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