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"It's something I've grown up with," Mr Maguire said.
As a keen judo sportsperson, Mr Maguire had always aspired to represent New Zealand under the flag.
"That's always been the goal, to see that flag flying," he said.
"I don't mind the new option but why are we changing something that has worked for so long?
"I think it's a bit of a waste of money."
However, 73-year-old Ross Crow wanted to change it for his father, a World War I veteran.
"The reason I really want it, my father was a life member of the RSA and he never fought under the flag.
"Dad never saw a New Zealand flag at all, and he fought at the Somme, Passchendaele and caught the tail end of Ypres," Mr Crow said.
Instead, Mr Crow said due to being subservient to the British, they were fighting under the Union Jack.
"He said, 'one day son, you might be able to have a say and to get a new flag'. And I'm having my change," Mr Crow said.
"I'm thinking of the future, I want my two grandchildren to look up at it."
Julian Paul, 28-year-old board member of New Zealand First, has been touring tertiary campuses taking photos of people who want to keep the flag.
They went to Bay of Plenty Polytechnic this week to see what the students of Tauranga were wanting their flag to be.
"There were way more people in favour of the status quo," Mr Paul said.
However he found from his visit around the country that university campuses were closer in the amount of people who wanted to change the flag and who wanted to keep it.
However, "in the polytechs, a huge amount of people want to keep it as is".
Mr Maguire said a lot of his friends "didn't really care" about what would happen to the flag, just as Mr Crow said a lot of his friends "don't want to rock the boat".
Both would be disappointed if their preferred flag was not chosen, with Mr Crow saying "I've just got to wear it", and Mr Maguire saying there would be "not much one can do" if it changed.
