EMPIRE DAY.
QUESTION OF FLYING THE UNION JACK. Received May 20, 11.27 p.m. LONDON, May 20. In the House of Commons, the Hon. H. H. Asquith, replying to questions, said he did not see sufficient reason to depart from his predecessors practice; on Empire Day with regard to the proposal to fly the Union Jack on various Government buildings. Mr Asquith recently declared that the Unioi) Jack would not be flown over English public buildings on Empire Day. Replying to a question recently in the Canadian House of Parliament by Senator Domville, the [lon. R. W. Scott, Canadian Secretary of State, said that if the Union Jack was not flown over English publie buildings on Empire Day, the only effect would be that it would be flown still more generally in Canada.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9094, 21 May 1908, Page 5
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132EMPIRE DAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9094, 21 May 1908, Page 5
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