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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 7, 19 April 1901, Page 4

THE NATIONAL FLAG. TB« national flag, or Union Jack, of old England, is composed of a union of the .a-osses of St. George, of St. Andrew, and of St. Patrick respectively; hence the Pnton Jack. Bnt why Jack? Some writers suggest that the word Jack arose from the fact that James I. was the first to blend the red cross of St. George with the cross sallire of St. Andrew, and that this flag was called a Jack from the Latinised form of the King's name Jacobus. This hypothesis is everruled by the fact that Charles 11. Issued a proclamation charging the merchant ships that they " do not hear his Majesty'* Jack (commonly called the Union Jack) without special warrant, but that they must keep to the flags, Jacks, and ensigns heretofore worn by them." It is evident from this that some kind of sma!! flags were known as iacks previous to the time of James I. It A*s been suggested that the name arose from tfie fact that when the army of Richard 11. Invaded Scotland, that King ordered that " even man, of what estate, condicioc, or nation thet be, if so that he be of cure partie, beare a signs of the arms of St. George, large, both before and behind." And as the upper part of the dress of a horse-man was called a Jack, it came to pass that small flags for the use of sailors, which bore only the •ymbol of a cross, came to be called jacks Interaldic language the English flag is thus described:—Azure, the crosses saltire of St. Andrew and St. Patrick quarterly, per 9altire counter-changed argent and gules, the latter fimbriated, and the second surmounted by the cross of St. George of the Third, fimbriated as the saltire." In plain language the three national flags seem to have been blended as follows: First, the Scotch flag was taken, blue, with a white diagonal cross; then the red cross from the English flag was placed over this; then upon the union with Ireland, the Irish flag, a red diagonal cross on a white ground, had to be com Dined, and this was done by what is called counterchanging. Although the present arrangement of the flag has been described as •' false heraldry," yet the combination has a very picturesque effect, and I we should deprecate any alteration of the brave old flag, " the flag that has braved a I thousand years the battle and the breeze," and' which we hope may bmv* thwn for a thousand yean mom.

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