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- 30/07/1979 - Carless days introducedCarless days for motor vehicles were introduced to combat the second ‘oil shock’ (petrol shortage) of the 1970s. They did little to reduce consumption and were scrapped in May 1980.
- 31/07/1843 - Foundation stone laid for New Zealand's first purpose-built theatre Laying the foundation stone for the Royal Victoria Theatre on Manners St, Wellington, Alderman William Lyon welcomed the new amenity – ‘a theatre [was] a necessary concomitant of an advanced state of civilization.’
- 31/07/1976 - John Walker wins gold in MontrealFollowing in the footsteps of Jack Lovelock and Peter Snell, Walker won gold in the Olympic 1500 m. Black African nations boycotted the Games in protest at the All Blacks' tour of South Africa
- 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.
- 30/07/1979 - Carless days introduced
