Territory of Papua and New Guinea 1949-1965 (Australia)

Last modified: 2006-06-09 by ian macdonald
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• Customs Service Flag

See also:

• Historical Flags (Papua New Guinea)
• Papua New Guinea
• Australia

If one takes Papua New Guinea as having come into existence in 1949, the only flag that was not purely Australian and had the Union Flag in the canton was the flag of the Customs Service. This was the Australian Blue Ensign with the addition in the fly of a white disc bearing the letters 'T.P. & N.G.C.' in bold black characters. Source: The Flag Bulletin, no. 130, 1989, which has an article on the flags of eastern New Guinea in general.
David Prothero, 21 April 1998