NEW ZEALAND PLACE NAMES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17469, 1 June 1922, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND PLACE NAMES.

■ TO THE EDITOR Off "THE PRESS." Sir, —Mr Joyce in his letter of the 31st inst., asks how the name of Lyttelton came to be applied. In a work •vhich I have, published in 1818. the names of those who composed the Canterbury Association, which founded the settlement of Canterbury appear. Lord Lyttelton was one of those. Lyttelton thence derived its name. Amongst others are names which are household words m Canterbury, and have been applied to numerous places in Canterbury, viz., the.parts of Ellesmere, Harewood and Lincoln, Lords Ashburton and Ashley, Bishop Coleridge, the Beaji of Canterbury, _ Viscount Alford, Lord Courtenay, Sir W. Heathcote, Hon. Herbert Cusc Charteris, Messrs Adderlev, Forsyth, Halswell, Simeon, Stafford, the Revs. Coleridge, Hawkins, Hinds, Hook, Torlesse; Air J. H. Godley, Archdeacon Wilberforce, and the Bishops of London, Winchester, Exeter, Dublin, Ripon, St Da;vids, Oxford. The last-named t.re the designations of the principal streets in. Lyttelton. With regard to Port Victoria this was applied to Port Cooper in the early days, and I believe the present Mount Herbert •Road Hoard was so called, but cannot assign any reason why the name was dropped. In. a chart that was compiled from a survey and. published by A. K. Johnston in 1843, and a still later on© bv Capt. W. M. Smith, the title of Lyttelton shows as the proposed site of New Edinburgh. No mention is made of Port Victoria. Port Levy showed as Port Ashley. On the same map only two rivers are shown, the Waimakariri and the Putarekamutu, which I believe is the Heathcote now. Lake Ellesmere is styled,, Wihola, the three islands of New Zealand are> called New Ulster .'North K New Munster, (the Middle Island), and New Leinster, now Stewart TsLind. The southern part of the North Island was styled North Durham, the North of South Island SoutH Durham, and the Maori name of the Middle Island as "Tavai Prenanimo," or the Land of the Greenstone. —Yours, etc., LYTTELTON lAN.