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- 13/11/1896 - Mount Tongariro eruptsAt 12.40 p.m. on 13 November 1896, Te Maari, a crater at the northern end of the Tongariro range, erupted spectacularly. It continued to erupt sporadically for nearly a year.
- 13/11/1990 - David Gray kills 13 at Aramoana The small seaside township of Aramoana, near Dunedin, was the scene of what was then the deadliest mass murder in New Zealand history when David Gray went on a shooting spree that left 13 people dead.
- 14/11/1973 - DPB legislation enactedThe passage of the Social Security Amendment Act introduced the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) to New Zealand’s social welfare system.
- 15/11/1861 - First issue of Otago Daily Times publishedDunedin became the first New Zealand centre with a daily newspaper on publication of the first issue of the Otago Daily Times.
- 13/11/1896 - Mount Tongariro erupts
