SOUTH AFRICA’S FLAG.
CAUSING WIDESPREAD PROTESTS. BILL MAY NOT GO ON. Capetown, May 23. The agitation against the proposed South African flag is growing and protest meetings are being held throughout the country, the largest of which was at Durban, where since the agitation started there has been an outburst of Union Jacks outside shops and on motors, besides being worn personally. The Town Hall was packed, the attendance inside and outside being 10,000. Great intensify of feeling was evident from the speeches and messages from mayors in other towns and various patriotic societies. The meeting culminated in a lengthy resolution protesting against the proposed flag as entirely ignoring the sentiments of a very large proportion of the wliiie race in South Africa and an affront to the British section. The “Cape Times” Parliamentary correspondent affirms that the Government has decided not to proceed with the Bill this session.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3040, 25 May 1926, Page 2
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149SOUTH AFRICA’S FLAG. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3040, 25 May 1926, Page 2
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