Gores Bay?

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31943, 21 March 1969, Page 10

Gores Bay?

Sir, —I read with interest the article in today’s issue of! your paper relating to place names in New Zealand associated with Captain Cook. I was surprised to see that the name Gores Bay was omitted. In the Treaty House Museum at Waitangi is a map of New Zealand—an original of Captain Cook’s, 1 understand—and among the few names marked (four) on the east coast of the South Island is Gores Bay. The Powers that be have decided it is to be known as Gore Bay, even though it was named after Lieutenant Gore, Captain Cook’s first lieutenant. — Yours, etc., E. A. WILKINSON, Gores Bay. March 11, 1969.

[Mr A. Evans, secretary of the New Zealand Geographic Board, replies: “Your correspondent is correct in that the facsimile of Captain Cook’s original chart of New Zealand shows the name, 'Gores Bay,’ on the east coast of the South Island. It also shows Cook’s Strait between the North and South Islands, Banks’s Island at Banks Peninsula, and Solanders Isle in Foveaux Strait. Early in the history of New Zealand the possessive ‘s’ was dropped from place names; maps published in 1866 show the same spellings as are used today, e.g., Cook Strait, Banks Peninsula, Solander Island, and Gore Bay. It is still the policy of the Geographic Board to omit the possessive ‘s’ wherever possible without destroying the euphony of the name or chahging its descriptive character. Some examples in the South Island which come to mind are Haast Pass, Harpers Pass, and Lewis Pass.”] Wages And Cost Of Living Sir,—Wage orders increase but result only id increased prices for goods, and therefore living costs at once catch up again. Why not try a new approach? Give a substantial increase in child benefit—maybe up to $1 a child a week. This money would flow to those who need it and who would spend it; money would pass into circulation promptly. But manufacturing costs would not be affected and so no prices would rise, Next make the child benefit taxable to the recipient. Those who could not afford it would not pay tax. This would apply to all young parents, and, in any case, tax can never reach 110 c in the dollar. Of course sometimes the benefit would be abused or ill-used. This is already so now sometimes. Nonworking pensioners would not have their pension value eroded. Of course the tax on the taxable folk would not pay for all the benefit given, but the containing of manufacturing costs would be wonderful for all bur export products. and that would bring its own return.—Yours, etc., TYRO. March 18. 1969.