New Zealand picks new flag design to challenge current flag

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND:  New Zealanders chose a new flag design Tuesday that will be put up as a challenger to their current flag in a March vote.

The question of whether to change a national symbol that has endured for more than a century has raised plenty of passion, and skepticism, in this nation of 4.6 million.

People submitted more than 10,000 potential new flag designs, including bizarre ones like a kiwi, the iconic native bird, shooting a green laser beam from its eye.

In the end it came down to two flags by Kyle Lockwood that featured the same design of a silver fern and four red stars, but with different background colors.

Lockwood’s black and blue flag just edged his red an

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