CHANGE OF NAMES TO ATTRACT OVERSEAS VISITORS
That a greater number of visitors from overseas would come to the South Island if its name were changed to the Middle Island was contended by Mr R. S. Thompson at a meeting of the Otago Harbour Board last night. Some visitors, he said, thought that the South Island was the south pole. Action should be taken to prevent visitors from forming such ideas or gaining the impression that they were going south. The Cold Lakes should be renamed the Great Lakes, Mr Thompson added. The name “cold” would not attract visitors; little did they realise that the weather there in the summer was the best and warmest in New Zealand. The chairman, Mr W. R. Clarke, and other members supported Mr Thompson’s suggestions, and hoped that other organisations would also support them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26777, 21 May 1948, Page 6
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