New Zealand Ensigns

Last modified: 2005-05-13 by jonathan dixon
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• Civil ensign
• Government ensign
• Naval ensign
• Air Force ensign
• Civil Air ensign
• Police ensign
• Fire Service Ensign

See also:

• New Zealand
• New Zealand - Index of all pages
• Maroon ensign at Wellington War Memorial

The New Zealand Red Ensign, with four white stars, became in 1901 the correct flag for New Zealand merchant vessels. The statute also allows the Red Ensign to be used on land on occasions of Maori significance, continuing the long preference of Maori for the use of red in flags.
Stuart Park, 8 July 1997

In 1887 the British Board of Trade set up a committee to revise the International Code of Signals. Details of the revised code, due to come into use on 1st January 1901, were published in 1898. It continued the existing practice that, "A ship wishing to ma