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- 25/10/1971 - End of the line for steam railwaysThe Christchurch–Dunedin overnight express, headed by a JA-class locomotive, ran the last scheduled steam-hauled service on New Zealand Railways (NZR), bringing to an end 108 years of regular steam rail operations in this country.
- 25/10/1949 - Foundation of IHCA meeting in Wellington set up an interim committee for the Intellectually Handicapped Children's Parents' Association (IHCPA), the forerunner of IHC.
- 26/10/1942 - Women Jurors Act allows women to sit on juriesThe Act provided for women aged between 25 and 60 to have their names placed on the jury list on the same basis as men – if they so desired.
- 27/10/1943 - First opposed New Zealand landing since GallipoliNew Zealanders of 8 Brigade, 3 New Zealand Division, helped their American allies clear Mono Island in the Solomons of its Japanese defenders. Forty lost their lives in weeks of fierce fighting.
- 25/10/1971 - End of the line for steam railways
