What Was The Meaning
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Of This Flag?
Letter to the Editor COULD any New Guinea reader en lighten me on the following matter: On November 26, 1884, I left Port Moresby by HBMS “Swinger” for New castle. on board I passed the house (a hut erected on posts on the water-edge) of Boi-Vagf, who had been appointed King of the Port Moresby tribe by the Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Rom illy, on the Rev. Chalmers’ recommenda r tion, and noticed that on Boi-Vagi’s hut was a small flagpole attached to which a flae was flying.
The flag was blue with a white square on the upper part near the pole and in this white square was a bird of paradise of a brown colour.
Was this flag an official flag (Royal Standard), or just a recognition of Boi- Vagi’s position?
Some old Port Moresby residents might be able to trace this affair. I have only this note about it in my day-book, which I came across recently.
I am, etc.,
F. T. Goedicke.
Lotofoa, Haapai, Tonga. 21/1/44.
Mr. J. A. Kirpal, of Suva, Fiji, formerly managing clerk to Messrs. Hasan and Hasan, barristers and» solicitors, who is at present in New Zealand, has joined the Auckland University College with a view to qualifying for the Bar.
Mr. R. Crompton, CBE, KC, has been appointed chairman of the Fiji National Arbitration Tribunal, in place of Mr. E.
E. Jenkins (Attorney-General).