THE SCHOOL FLAG.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 26, 19 November 1898, Page 6

THE SCHOOL FLAG.

(to the editor.) Sib, — Ever since this flag was unfurled, I have been endeavouring to find out what it meant; for even when it first felt the breeze several people looked askance *t it, and opined it was not " the correct thing." Having arrived at a satisfactory solution of the puzzle, I should like to impart it to those who have not yet fathomed it. The flag is not the Pilot Jack, as an old Land Marine wanted to make you believe. The signal for a pilot is a plain blue, and the pilot displays a red and white flag. The school flag is the old Union Jack of England »nd ScotJand from James I to 1801, and is intended to symbolise the present state of our educational system, the school being composed in the main of the progeny of English and Scotch, whilst the Irish progeny go to "the E.G. school. I have heard it suggested that the flag was ordeied heart and scorned to acknowledge the Union, but I cannot think that the well-informed of an Irish manufacturer, who was a Fenian at men who compose our school committee, andthe school staff, and the Mayor, and the cleric

patriot of '98, could be •' got at " like that. No, the fiist explanation you may depend upon it is correct, and when the Irish element accept the State system, the quaiteiings to repiesent the Cross of St. Patiick will be added and make the Jack complete. — I am, etc.,

Tommy Atkins.

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