THE NEW DOMINION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13482, 5 July 1907, Page 5

THE NEW DOMINION.

|[BY TELEGRAPH. — SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

Wellington, Thursday. Captain- Tucker, who was the seconder in I the Legislative Council of the motion that | [an Address-in-Iteply be presented to the! Governor, made some rather humorous remarks in reference to the change in the! colony's title. He said lie did not know I much about the term " dominion." He, however, argued that unless some benefit was to be gained from the change such a change would never have been suggested. The term colony, had in the past only been another mime for penal settlement. He admitted that the change in name would not make much difference in the colony itself. Mr. Witty's contribution to the dominion question caused a good deal of laughter. After stating that the change of name, at all events, could not mean any loss to us, he said the colony " had been in short clothes, but it was now in trousers." He suggested that it should be called the Dominion of Maoriland. He objected to " New Zealand" because it was a foreign name, and did not belong to the British nation. It was a Dutch name.