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- 05/08/1914 - New Zealand enters the First World WarNew Zealand received the news of the outbreak of war just before 1 p.m. on 5 August. At 3 p.m. the Governor, Lord Liverpool, announced the news from the steps of Parliament to a large and enthusiastic crowd.
- 05/08/1988 - Cartwright Report condemns cancer treatment The report was triggered by the publication in Metro magazine of ‘An Unfortunate Experiment’, an article by Sandra Coney and Phillida Bunkle which alleged that cervical cancer patients at Auckland’s National Women’s Hospital were receiving inadequate treatment.
- 06/08/1936 - Lovelock wins 1500-m gold at Berlin Jack Lovelock won New Zealand’s first Olympic athletics gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in a race witnessed by 120,000 spectators – including Adolf Hitler.
- 06/08/2012 - Valerie Adams wins second Olympic goldValerie Adams won gold in the shot put at the London Olympic Games. It was awarded a week after the competition, when the intial winner was disqualified for testing positive for an anabolic steroid.
- 05/08/1914 - New Zealand enters the First World War
