Romanian flag to fly on Auckland Harbour Bridge

Thursday, 30 November 2006, 4:44 pm
Press Release: Transit New Zealand

Auckland Regional Office

30 November 2006

MEDIA RELEASE

The flag of Romania will fly from the Auckland Harbour Bridge tomorrow Friday 1 December, in recognition of their National Day. The flag will be flown from 6:30am until 6:30pm.

Transit considers requests from nations wanting to commemorate their country’s national days and significant occasions. Recently the Scottish, Albanian and Lebanese flags have all flown on the bridge.

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