Ohiro Home
Sir, —-As a New Zealander I was very disturbed and disappointed to read in this morning’s “Dominion” that the general purposes committee of the Ohiro Home had decided that, in future this institution shall be known as Hie Central Park Hospital. The question as between the term “home” or “hospital” does not interest me as much as the change from Ohiro to Central Park. The name of the old survey district of Ohiro has much to commend it. in sentiment, brevity, old associations, etc.; whereas the term Central Park is comparatively new and ambiguous. Let us also remember the noble race who inhabited this land for centuries before the pakeha arrived, by the sensible and reasonable use of Maori names, especially where the euphonious and descriptive brevity of the name has so much more to commend it than the longer and double name.—l am. etc., KARORI. Karori, August 4.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 265, 5 August 1937, Page 13
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151Ohiro Home Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 265, 5 August 1937, Page 13
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