Flag Goes Up
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In Nng
Netherlands New Guinea on December 1 officially hoisted a brand new territorial flag.
It was a public holiday, with flag-raising ceremonies every where and much singing of the new national anthem. The flag (one third red, on the left, with a white star in the centre of the red, with the remaining two thirds of the flag divided into blue and white horizontal stripes) will fly in future along side the Netherlands tri-colour.
The Government placed a rush-order in Holland for 500 flags for the ceremonies and a local sailmaker was kept busy in Hollandia.
The new change follows pro posals made by a NNG political party in November (PIM, Nov. p. 21). However, NNG has not yet officially changed it name to “West Papua”.