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Rangitikei carried this funnel at Lyttelton in May 1992. Advice of a later change came from Australia around 1993.

The photographed flag is yellow with a narrow blue border and an unusual SPS design, the two S forms lying horizontally. Its proportions are about 1:2.5. Ranginui’s February 1997 funnel has a more compact emblem than the flag; emblem placement varied, sometimes nearer the lower band. Rosanoski suggests a possible intention to evoke a Maori design, without establishing it.

The Log shows the flag as an ordinary rectangle with blue bands only at top and bottom and the funnel without a black top. Rosanoski questions the proportions: the original observer later explained that the flag had been wrapped round a halliard with only occasional movement. Wellington Express in May 1997 carried the borderless-at-hoist-and-fly version as a band below its Tasman Express markings under a slot-charter agreement.