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10 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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The Royal New Zealand Navy at Waitangi. 100 sailors fired 100 guns simultaneously. Photo / Sandy Myhre
The Royal New Zealand Navy at Waitangi. 100 sailors fired 100 guns simultaneously. Photo / Sandy Myhre
Northern Advocate
Traditions there for a reason
There are certain traditional protocols at Waitangi, the reasons for which aren t always immediately clear. Mostly, it s to do with the navy. For instance, when 100 navy personnel marched on to the upper Treaty ground the flag was carried in the middle of the marching troop and not out front as you d expect. Why?
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router failed. and preventing air traffic controllers from communicating with each other. we were informed while on the flight. we knew what was going on, you know? and i guess you want to make sure that you re safe on the skies so you have to kind of put up on it. reporter: and that meant the air traffic controllers had to enter the flight plan data that is a time consuming task that flowed the entire system. everything worged okay and we sat on that for about an hour. reporter: people getting off the flight from houston say that they were stuck. yeah, we were actually stuck on the air waves out there, waiting for about an hour. sitting out there, not knowing too much about what was going on and finally getting results when we got on our cell phones and we started check the news. many people missed opponents including them. and they were suppose to be at a meeting on capitol hill. but they are not upset with the airlines. and they made that very nicely. and the