"AUSTRALASIA."
It is interesting to learn that the movement in New Zealand against the use of the word "Australasia" . has had substantial results. The High Commissioner .in London reports that both he and his predecessor have done everything possible to remove the word from the British Press, and -Sir James Parr is able to say that its use in Britain is becoming rare. The New Zealand objection implies no hostility to Australia. It is simply that "Australasia" deprives New Zealand : of her separate identity. "Australasia" is sometimes a useful word, and, as Tennyson and William Watson have shown —"by the long wash of Australasian seas," and "the iris of the Australasian spray"—it can he used beautifully. Generally speaking, however, it conceals our independence and importance, and helps to spread the idea that we are an appanage of Australia. New Zealand objects to it, not from vanity, but from a proper sense of self-respect and self-protection.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1927, Page 6
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