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received that taken in any particular designing a styling care has been Flaq which must vide secy of be liable to much criticism hereafter when made the distinguishing emblem of a Colony annually frequented by, many
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Grate thousand tons and several millions of 1/3/4 - 65° tons. I have also reason to suppose that the design was ever submitted to and approved by Your Lordship's Department. As however I send one of the Flags herewith Your Lordship can judge for yourself how far my Council is borne out in the opinion which they have recorded that the flag is extremely defective both in design and execution.
3.
Nevertheless as the design seems to have been compiled by an artist at Wapping for about £3, a specimen of the highest art could not well have been looked for. Apart however from the abstract merits of the flag, it is the wish of the Council and of every one who has expressed an opinion here on the subject that Your Lordship should direct some suitable design to be fresh and substituted more. It has been suggested that in lieu of the gentleman in an evening coat who is purchasing tea on the beach at Howlcom, an unusual place for such transactions, it would be more agreeable to the feelings of the community if the foreground were occupied by the well-known figure of Britannia
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received that
taken in
any particular designing a stling
care has been
Flaq
which must vide secy of
be liable to much criticism hereafter when made the distinguishing emblem of a Jealony annually fequented by,
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No. 117. of 22.00 July 1868.
478 5908-68,
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thousand repels and several millions of 1/31/4 - 65°
tons. I have also
that the design
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reason to suppose
to suppose agents
was ever
submitted to
and approved by Your Londohip's
Department. As however I send one of
the Flags herewith Your Lendship
can
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judige for yourself how far my Cannil is bome out in the opinion which they have recorded that the flag extremely defective both in design and
execution.
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as the design seems
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to have been compiled by
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an
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specimen of the
Wapping for about £3 highest art could not well have been looked for. Apart however from the
abstract merits of the teagis is the wish of the bouncil and of every
one,
who has
expreped an opinion here on the subject that Your Lordship should direct some
suitable design
fresh
and
substituted
more
to be
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of the gentleman
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evening coat who
is purchasing tea on the beach at howlcom, an unusual place for such transactions,
it would be
more
agreeable to the feelings
were
of the community if the foreground
the well known figure of Buiten occupied by the
Britannia
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