CHANGING TASMAN'S NAME.
PLENTY OF PRECEDENTS. ADOPTION OF THE TITLE. SYDNEY, August 13. Mr. E. Andrews (secretary of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science) supplies an extract from the minutes of the third session of the Association held at Christehurch in 1891 to the effect that the Lords of the Admiralty had been requested to adopt the name of Tasman by entering it on their churls. The Admiralty accepted the proposition. Sir Edgcworth David, favouring the substitution of Anzac. thought, the change could be effected by agreement between the Commonwealth and the Dominion, with the concurrence of the British Admiralty. He pointed out that there were plenty of precedents for change of place names. New Holland was changed to Australia. Mount. Kosciusko and Mt, Towtistnd had been transposed, and during recent years St. Petersburg had been changed to Petrograd.— (A. and N.Z. Cable I
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 191, 14 August 1922, Page 5
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