PALMERSTON'S NAME.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 17

PALMERSTON'S NAME.

CHANGE WANTED. ' Pa]merston North (339 miles from Auckland, and 87 from Wellington)—the largest inland town in New Zealand—a spacious and beautiful provincial centre —is fast attaining the dignity of a city. Ihe only fault one has to find with this wide, spreading .place of fine buildings and parks, and bright flower gardens, is its inappropriate and meaningless name. Manawatu' has often been suggested as the fitting name for the town, and would become it exceedingly well. As the metropolis of the wealthy farming district of the Manawatu plain, It could bear no more convenient and euphonious name,"

So read an extract from a publication by James Cowan, copies of which were pjaced before a meeting of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce at its last meeting. The extract met with the full approved of members, the chairman, Mr. M. A. Eliott, remarking that the chamber needed no better backing in its effort to bring about the above change of name than that contained in those lines.

"Is any further action being taken in our endeavour to get the name changed?" asked a member.

Mr. Eliott stated in reply that it would not be long now before Palmerston would reach the status of a city, and then