UNPOPULAR WORD.
" AUSTRALASIA " AGAIN.
NEW ZEALAND'S PROTESTS
[FROM our. OWN- CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON. July 10.
The Morning Post, London, publishes the following in its editorial columns, under the heading "A New Zealand Protest" :
"All proud peoples are properly touchy about being 'misnamed,' and having their individuality obscured in a generic title. Thus what Scot can endure the suggestion that the term 'England' includes 'Scotland' ? Similarly, the New Zealander resents just as deeply the use of the term 'Australasia' as including his own islands. New Zealand, he will point out, is as remote from Australia as London is from Petrograd or from Malta. "In the Concise Oxford Dictionary the word 'Australasian' is defined as 'of Australia and the adjoining islands.' New Zealand refuses to bo classed among 'the adjoining islands'; and we shall agree* that New Zealand deserves to have her wishes respected." Attention was first? drawn to this omission of any reference to New Zealand in the Oxford Dictionary by the High Commissioner, Sir Thomas Wilford, in welcoming the party of New Zealand dairy farmers last week.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 9
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