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image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008
Flag adopted 1924 (coat-of-arms adopted 4th July 1908), abolished 1970
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A letter dated 8th May 1924 informed the Colonial Office that instructions to remove the white circle had been issued by the governor. (ADM 116/1847B). Admiralty Flag Book 1930 [hms30], plate 35; under Fiji, notes that there is no white circle.
David Prothero, 22 December 1999 and 24 October 2002
image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008
I am not persuaded that the Fiji blue ensign, badge without disk ever really
caught on from a popularity standpoint. It may have existed on paper, but I
believe that the badge on disk version was used regularly right up to
independence. I once saw a yacht in Hawaii was flying both the blue and red
ensign and both had badges on the disk. And, the only other colonial Fiji
ensigns I saw around independence time had disks as well. They were not old
ensigns at the time. They were new.
Clay Moss, 10 December 2008
image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008
image by Clay Moss, 17 December 2008
image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008