THE TWO PALMERSTONS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 252, 19 July 1920, Page 6

THE TWO PALMERSTONS

Sir,—ln Notes of the Day your issuQ of July 13 contains a rather disparaging . reference to nn obscure lit'.lo township in North Ota go." A 6 an ex-resident, I enter a modest protest. According to your nrtiijCle,. Palmenta was constituted a borough in 1872, five years before Paliuerston North had tile honour. Circumstances over which Palmereton residents, past and present, had no control have predestinated their town a non-progres-sive one "fomnolent" if you like. On the othei Jiar.il, liie -arly residents of Palmerston North electcd ,to name their borough with a name similar to another New Zealand borough.' Thus they, and their successors who will'not agree to a change, are-the ones responsible for so much confusion. Why not Manawatu? In this,obscurg littlo township the Attor-ney-General of Sir Joseph Ward's Government practiced his profession, as did also Mr. Massoy's first Attorney-General'. Sir John Mackenzie hailed from the immediate locality, _ Sir Thomas Mackenzie represented it in Parliament, and thero are others, of note; but paper is scarce. Palmerstori may be its citizens.—l am., etc., ONCE AN OBSCURE ONE.