NOMENCLATURE.
At a meeting of the Gisliorne Chamber of Commerce the other day, a suggestion was made that the whole district be known as Gisborno. and that the name "Poverty Bay" he dropped. Members objected on the ground that there were historical associations connected with the old inline We cannot (iuit:. l iullow thi*. i
reasoning. There were historical associations attached to Van Dieman's Land and Botany Bay, but- the Tasmanian and New South Wales people had no compunction about dropping these inappropriate names. For a flourishing district like that around Gisborne, the na'iie "Poverty Bay" is singularly inappropriate, and the residents would be conserving their own interests in abandoning it as speedily as possible. By the same token, there are many objectionable Maori names applied to townships, livers and lakes in New Zealand, that should be substituted by womething more appropriate. Some of the names are positively obscene, while others are meaningless.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 November 1913, Page 4
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