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![[ Wellington, New Zealand ]](../images/n/nz-we-we.gif)
image by Jens Pattke, 6 March 2016See also:
The flag is yellow with a black St George Cross and the badge of the city
in the middle.
Source:
http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1329880862/827/6462827.jpg at
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/6462321/Flag-war-erupts
Jens Pattke, 6 March 2016
![[Wellington City Council]](../images/n/nz-wellcc.gif)
image by Jens Pattke, 10 November 2012
Based on:
http://www.wellington.govt.nz/news/display-item.php?id=5103
Source image located by Vanja Poposki, 10 November 2012
![[Wellington Harbour Board]](../images/n/nz~whb.jpg)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
The Wellington Harbour Board was formed 1.1.1880 and the flag was dark blue
with a white circle bearing the Arms in simplified form. These were - a dark
brown anchor with 2 vertical blue stripes towards either end of the cross bar, a
blue cod between 2 yellow stars and a yellow crown embattled of 4 points with
white lines of mortar and a red base and underneath a blue scroll with the white
motto "FIRME DUM FIDE" i.e. the colours from the actual Arms seen
above, though the fish seems to have got lost in the flap.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
![[Wellington Harbour Board]](../images/n/nz~whb-ensign.jpg)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
The ensign deletes the scroll and a larger image of the latter's charge where I have enhanced the colours with the details recorded from an actual
flag seen in the Wellington Maritime Museum. The "cod" has been described
elsewhere as being a "dolphin" but the company in correspondence have so
described it as "cod". The ensign was used by the Board's floating plant.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
![[Wellington Harbour Board]](../images/n/nz~powlogo.jpg)
image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
In 1988 the New Zealand harbour boards were turned into companies, in this
case it became Port of Wellington Ltd. Their logo from their letterhead represented the geographic shape of
New Zealand with Wellington as the hub of trade and the upper "North Island"
was coloured gold with the rest of the logo blue.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
![[Wellington Harbour Board]](../images/n/nz~w290.gif)
![[Wellington Harbour Board]](../images/n/nz~w431.gif)
images by Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
The logo appeared on a
white flag except that the North Island was also coloured blue. Two different
sized versions were made. For their building the flag had proportions of 1x2
and was flown 7 days a week between 0800 and 1700.
The 2nd "storm" version was 3x4 in accordance with
international standards on account of their not flogging themselves to death
so quickly in the wind and stiffening out better with less droop ion the fly
and thus being easier to read. This was flown by all vessels when manned
during daylight hours [information received from the company 11.11.1994 in
which their examples show the lettering being all in upper case whereas their
actual logo and all flags seen have been a mixture of upper and lower case so
I have assumed that the portrayals in their letter have made an error in this
point) and was sighted being flown by a tug in 5/1997.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
![[Wellington Harbour Board]](../images/n/nz~w291.gif)
image by Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
On 14.9.1995 I
took a photo of their flag flying at their gate entrance to the wharves which
appeared to be nearer the normal rectangle with the words reduced to "Port
Wellington". Another photo 17.10.1996 at the same
place showed the "long" version but that could be a case of using up old
stock.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
![[Wellington Harbour Board]](../images/n/nz~c823.gif)
images by Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
In 1999 the company rebranded itself to its current CentrePort
Ltd. with a new restyled logo [same origins of a representation of NZ, company
name and where they are located for anyone who is lost and which the company
itself used for a while until its new brand became better known] and flag again
with different colours between the logos and flag but the flag being confirmed
by a photo from one of the tugs as white with a blue and gold symbol and black
lettering. It would appear that the "storm" version was done away
with seeing that this a "long" flag but in fact over the period there were
very few occasions on which the tugs were seen flying a flag so the sighting
in 5/1999 was probably a lucky coincidence relating to their new name change
[previous day] celebrations.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 October 2010
In A-league football in Australia, in general, each club has one semi-official
fan flag, which is usually simply the team's badge places in the centre of a
background in the colour or colours of the team's playing strip. Not all of the
11 teams in the league seem to have these "unofficial official" flags, but many
do. Of the eleven teams in the league, the most organised supporters' club is
almost certainly the Yellow Fever, the supporters of Wellington Phoenix (the
only New Zealand side in the league). The yellow fever have their own
banner-like flag, and at all home games one section of the ground has quite a
large number of these "Yellow army flags". The flags are taller than they are
wide, and contain a fairly odd image in the centre: a moustache and hair. Club
manager, Ricki Herbert was - as a player - a member of the 1982 national team,
the first New Zealand side ever to qualify for the FIFA world cup. At that time,
he wore shoulder-length hair and moustache, as was common at the time. The flag
shows Herbert's hair as it appeared in 1982!
James Dignan, 18
February 2011
An article by Günter Mattern [mar87]: "Flags of National Life-Boat Societies",
issued in the [icv85] Communicaciones, XI Congreso Internacional de Vexilologia,
Madrid, 26-31 Mayo 1985, pp. 125-135 mentions the Wellington Sea-Rescue Service
- "uses an emblem, in orange a black wave with an emergency rocket emerging.
Probably the emblem is shown in the orange flag of the society." Not illustrated
by Mattern, and I found nothing on-line. It may have merged with NZ Coastguard
by now.
Željko Heimer, 29 August 2017
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