Editing Union Jack (section)

===New Zealand===
[[File:1888-1889 Natives Tour.jpg|thumb|The [[1888–89 New Zealand Native football team]] pose in front of the [[flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand]] and the Union Jack, 1889]]
The Union Flag became the flag of New Zealand after the [[Treaty of Waitangi]] was signed in February 1840, replacing the flag used by the [[United Tribes of New Zealand]].<ref name=nzflag>{{cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/flags-of-new-zealand/union-jack|title=Flags of New Zealand Page 3 – Union Jack|website=nzhistory.govt.nz|publisher=New Zealand Government|date=11 May 2015|access-date=7 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122030429/https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/flags-of-new-zealand/union-jack|archive-date=22 January 2020}}</ref> The issue of flying the flag of the United Tribes alongside the Union Jack, as a symbol of their equal standing with the colonial government, was a factor that led to the [[Flagstaff War]], led by [[Ngāpuhi]] chief [[Hōne Heke]].<ref name=nzflag/> British maritime flags were used by New Zealand vessels until 1865.<ref name=nzflag/> After the passage of the [[Colonial Naval Defence Act 1865]], vessels of the New Zealand government used a defaced [[blue ensign]] issued by the colonial government.

The [[flag of New Zealand|current national flag of New Zealand]] was given official standing under the New Zealand Ensign Act in 1902, replacing the Union Flag.<ref name=nzflag/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scoutingtorlesse.org/Scouts/Resources/The_New_Zealand_Flag.pdf |title=The New Zealand Flag |website=Scouting New Zealand |access-date=9 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728005107/http://www.scoutingtorlesse.org/Scouts/Resources/The_New_Zealand_Flag.pdf |archive-date=28 July 2011 }}</ref> However, the Union Flag continued to see tandem use with the national flag of New Zealand into the 1950s.<ref name=nzflag/>