TRUE BLUE.
People who display national flags on special occasions need to be very particular if they would escape criticism. In not a few instances the plain Union Jack is flown upside down. Now a distinguished antiquarian, in a letter to the Edinburgh Scotsman, writes that the flags, "are almost invariably incorrect in an important respect, viz., that those parts of them which ought to be blue are not blue; they are usually of the dark colour known as navy blue, or of what may as correctly be called a blue-black." He points out that a flag of correct colour has a special brightness which makes it very appropriate to occasions of popular rejoicing. The real blue intensifies the red, whereas its dismal substitute appears to absorb a proportion of the red. Evidently correct coloured flags are obtainable, and people probably only need to have attention called to the fact to induce them to insist on having the true blue when they place an order for a new flag.
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Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3089, 14 December 1929, Page 2
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