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Internet auction TradeMe, has pulled from its website a flag put up for sale by Tame Iti, who was convicted on firearms charges on Friday.
The Tuhoe activist was found guilty in the Rotorua District Court of unlawfully discharging a shotgun, after he shot the New Zealand flag on a marae in front of Waitangi tribunal officials last year.
Iti announced on Friday that he was selling the flag on the website, and that bids were well into the hundreds.
But TradeMe’s founder, Sam Morgan, says the flag has since been removed following a number of complaints.
He says the flag is obviously controversial, and the plan to auction it had offended a number of people.

Posted: 07|1|06 at 2:00 pm. Filed under: Auction News.