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Shaw Savill Line :[Postcard]. The ceremony of choosing the first National flag of New Z...
Date: 1958
By: Shaw, Savill & Company
Reference: E-278-q-114
Description: Depicts the ceremony of choosing the first National flag of New Zealand by the Maori chiefs from one of three designs, witnessed by a grathering of missionaries, settlers, commanders of 10 British and 3 American ships. The ceremony took place at the house of the British Resident, Mr James Busby at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands on the 20th March 1834 with a salute of 21 guns from HMS Alligator (in distance). The flag that was chosen is being pointed at by a chief holding up a greenstone mere. The design chosen was the red cross of St George on a white background and a small red St George's cross in the top left hand corner on a blue background. In each of these quarters is an 8 pointed star. An enlargement of the flag is in the bottom lefthand corner of the postcard. The flag was called the Flag of United Tribes of New Zealand (1834-1840) The flag was adopted by Shaw Savill & Company as its house flag in 1858 it having ceased to be the national flag when New Zealand came under the British sovereignty Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 85 x 128 mm
Transparencies of Northland scenes
Date: February 1956, January 1958
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: PA12-7614
Description: Transparencies of Northland, taken February 1956 and January 1958 by Whites Aviation. Comprises views of Waitangi Falls, the Treaty House, sheep being unloaded from a barge, and Williams Memorial Church of St Paul in Paihia. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
Transparencies of Paradise Bay and the Treaty House
Date: February 1956, January 1958
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: PA12-7612
Description: Transparencies of Paradise Bay and the Treaty House at Waitangi, taken 1956 and 1958 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
Transparencies of Waitangi and Opua
Date: January 1956, January 1958
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: PA12-7594
Description: Transparencies of Waitangi and Opua, taken January 1956 and January 1958 by Whites Aviation. Includes views of Whare Runanga, waterfall, and memorial commemorating the Treaty of Waitangi. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies