The New Dominion.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43114, 6 July 1907, Page 2

The New Dominion.

(By Telegraph) —Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, This Day.

Captain Tucker, who was the seconder in the Legislative, .Glduncil of the motion that an Address-iq-Reply be presented to the Governor, ■ made some rather humorous remarks in reference to the change in the colony’s title. He said he did not no 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 name for penal settle' ment. 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 or 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.