WHAT'S IN A NAME? STREET NOMENCLATURE.
(Bt Telbobaph.— Speoiai to The Post.] AUCKLAND, This Day. "Another injustice to Ireland" was neaily being perpetrated at +he Mount Eden Borough Council meeting. A petition was p-esented fiw -the v si- edents "of ' lreland-street, asking that the name of the street should be changed as ti.ere was another Ireland-street in ©\irt,ence ip Ponsonby. Thi? proposal did not meet with the approval of a son of Erin, one Honlahan, a resident of the street in question, who waited upon last night's meeting, and wanted to know "what was wrong with the name at all." Ire'and-strppt was doomed to go, however, and Houlahan, after vainly pleading for its retention, was moving off disconsolately, when the. Mryor called him hack, with the question : "Is there any other name you v/ou'd suggest-?" Instantly the old man's face lit up, and, somewhat bashfully, he replied : "There's Woodford, that's my native town in county Galway." Councillors generally agreed that "Woodford-street" was not a bad name, and it was decided to submit it to tho other "-esidents of Ireland-street for their approval.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 125, 25 November 1908, Page 11
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WHAT'S IN A NAME? STREET NOMENCLATURE.
Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 125, 25 November 1908, Page 11
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