ANZAC OR TASMAN?
SYDNEY, August 12. (Received August 12, at 12.30 p.m-) Mr Andrews, secretary of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, supplies an extract from the_ minutes of the third session of the association held: at Christchurch in 1891, to the effect that the Lords of the Admiralty had been requested to adopt the name Tasman by entering it on their charts. . The Admiralty accepted the proposition.. _ Professor David, who favored the substitution of Anzac, thinks that the change could ho effected by an agreement between.the Commonwealth and the dominion, with the concurrence of the British Admiralty. He pointed out that there were plenty of procendents for a change of place' names. New Holland was changes to Australia, Mount Kosciusko and Mourn Townsend had been transposed during nr cent years, and St. Petersburg had beer changed to Petrograd.
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Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 7
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141ANZAC OR TASMAN? Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 7
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