It’s great that the Tino Rangatiratanga flag is fly alongside our dreadful national flag on Waitangi Day. Let’s hope it soon supplants that British hand-me-down and becomes the flag for all of us. Bugger the Pakeha naysayers. Bugger Shane Jones and the other Maori naysayers. We should have a national flag that is ours and ours alone. The Tino Rangatiratanga flag is a cracker, as I explained a few months ago here. Lets adopt it and get on with becoming a republic.
Today in NZ history- 21/02/1879 - Kaitangata mining disasterOn the morning of 21 February 1879, an explosion rocked the coalmine at Kaitangata, South Otago.
- 22/02/1902 - Kelburn cable car opensWellington's iconic cable car was built to provide residents of the developing hill suburb of Kelburn with quick access to and from downtown Lambton Quay.
- 22/02/2011 - Christchurch earthquake kills 185At 12.51 p.m. on Tuesday 22 February 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake caused severe damage in Christchurch and Lyttelton, killing 185 people and injuring several thousand.
- 23/02/1904 - First step in creation of Fiordland National ParkNearly 1 million ha of far western Southland and Otago was set aside as a national reserve.
- 21/02/1879 - Kaitangata mining disaster
