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Flag of Panama to fly on Auckland Harbour Bridge

Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 3:34 pm
Press Release: Transit New Zealand

Transit New Zealand
Auckland Regional Office

2 November 2005

Media Release

Auckland Harbour Bridge will fly the flag of Panama tomorrow in recognition of the Panama National Day. The flag will fly from dawn until dusk on Thursday 3 November.

Transit considers requests from nations wanting to commemorate their country’s national days. Recently the flags of Turkey, Austria and India have been flown from the bridge.

ENDS

To see a picture of the Panama flag, please go to: http://flagspot.net/flags/pa.html

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