DOMINION FLAGS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 3

DOMINION FLAGS

“It is a little difficult at this distance to understand the gravity of the crisis in South African politics that has resulted from the proposal of the Government to devise for union a national flag which does not include in its design the Union Jack. The winder, indeed, is that none of the selfgoverning Dominions has done this already. So far they have contented themselves with placing the Jack in. the left-hand top corner of a flag which*, bears elsewhere the arms or deviceof the particular Dominion. New JSC'St-'-with her four red stars and Australia with her six white one round a tiny Jack have made a neat design of it. 'Canada’s minute quarterings on a little shield, on the other hand are rather out-balanced ly the Union emblem. But if any of them chose to adopt a national flag for use on purely national occasions there could 1 be no severe criticism from the rest of the Empire..”—“Manchester Guardian.”