DUPLICATED NAMES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 650, 29 October 1909, Page 3

DUPLICATED NAMES.

y ■;.;■.■•; A., SURPRISING. LIST,; ;.h/ ■:'; Sir,—l see.that at Inst "the powers'that be" .are bestirring themselves by informing' some of the councils that have duplicated names for their: towns, that they must find, some'other. . The wonder is that in a litthv country such as this such a number of names should be so tluplicated. I presume that there is (or should bo) some method of registering'names.when given to a now township but it is very evident that the existing .list,(if. any)-can never-be gone through /before granting such application. . I saw a paragraph in a HawkeY'Bay paper the o her evening that Havelock has been noti-' imist rechristen their township, as,there is another of the same name :in/ the South Island. V, hereon a resident here wrote to 'the papers «ug<jesting .that it should "in tbo fnture be called "Ittverslea," evidently not knowing that there is a post office of that name on- the ; coach,,;road between . Kapong'a- and Opunake. I have taken the trouble of wading through a directory that I-find'on' the table, and noto-that there-is an Alro Ako and an Aka Aka, both in-the Auckland province; an Alfredtonand nn Alfriston; an Allantbn and an Allenton, and /Ashleybank (Canterbury), Ashley-Clinton (Hawke's Bay), and Ashley, downs- (Otago); an Awarua (Invercargill) and an "Awaroa (Auckland); an -Awatuna, in Auck land, Taranaki,. and-Westland: (3).! ' There is a 'Claremont' and' Clarcville: and:a. Clarkville. There are .seven: towns. whose first syllable is 'T?air," j six; commencing with "Fern.".- There isia ."Glenary" anda "Glenavy," a Havelock North, and'a , Havelock .South; therofs a Haywards . (Wellington), : . and - Haywards •' Point (Otago); an .Inglewbod in Southland -and 'ono in; Taranaki; an Island Bay, an Island Block, nnd an Island Cliff; 1 a-Kaikora (North) and a Knikora..(South)j a. Kaikoura in Marlborough and a Kaikoura Island in Auckland; a Kaitara, a Kaitawa, and a Kaitaia; two Kaitunas in : the Sonth'lsland;-a"Kensington in Otago, aid also one", i n Auckland; : a Konini (Wellington), and one in Otago. iTheroiare no fewer, than iprtyfonr. (4A) places commencing with ''Manga''! There is. a "Maitai" each. in ■ Westland, S6nth ; land, and. Nelson, a Mount Pleasant'in Marl-, borough and_ in Otago,,' and also in Aucldand ; I a Newton in . Auckland and a/ Newtown:. in AVellington, and a Newton Flat in the Nelson province; a'Palmerston. North and a :Palmer-ston-South; a .Paroa in.Auckland j.and one. in Westland;, a 'Pulcaki in 'Auckland" and ,-cn'o in Canterbury. . Tliere is a Eichmond in Nelson, one, .in; Auckland, ono in Otago, a.Richmond\ Brook..'. in -. Marlborough-! A.: Eimu in Westland and'one in .Southland; V:a( River'-' dale' in Nelson, a' Riverhead in Auckland, a Eiyerlea.in Taranaki, and aEiyersdale.in Souths land; there is also a.Kiyerside each in Canterbury and Southland, a. River-Terrace in Nelson,' , and a Eivertqn in Southland (we : are certainly: great \oh rivers, but -therej are five towns' beginning with Sea.and "ten with:. Spring; we, are not bad on Saints/either, for thero are no fewer than 13 thus beginning); a Roundhut inV Otago and one in Southland; a' Southbridge in Canterbury and also in Otago;. a, Tah'ora in Otago and ono in Taranaki; a Taita in Wellingtbn and one'in' Auckland;.a ; Tahi in Taranaki, and a Tatna in Auckland; a Te Arai each in Auckland- and Gisborne; a Te Aararoa,- a Te Aro, and a TeAraho; and there are (in all) seventy (70) towns .commencing with the. work Te.': A ■Wai Iti in Nelson and one in Canterbury; a WaikawaVeach in ' Nelson and > Southland; ■ a Waimate eachin Canterbury and Auckland; a Waipapa, Auckland, and' a ditto., Southland; a.Waipara (Canterbury), andaWaipara (Auckaud); a'Wairoa in Hawke's Bay and one in Nelson; a Wallacetown">and a,Wallaceville; a Wallsend in ■ Westland and and Wallsend in Wellington; a Walton in Auckland and a Walton Park in Otago'; a Wangiuiui in .Wellington , and also one .in.the Nelson, province;: a, ,Waver,ley (Wellington) anda Waverley (Canterbury); a Westport in Auckland and.ono in-tho'Buller';: a; Willoirbank, a Willowbridge, a..Willowbv, , arid a'Willows.; Tliere are three Woodsides.(one: each in , Auckland, Canterbury, and Otago), .'to sify' nothing of :■ Wooflbury, Woodcopke,,;, Wood-', end,,Woodgrove, Woodliaugh,.Woodhill r '.Wood.-' hope, Woodlands,. Woodhw, ■Wobdleigh, and, ■WoodvilleV I; think this- lot; of duplicated ,'and similar names .is.not's'o had, for. , a. small country. snch : .as .ours.' , ?—Lam, etc., "' v r - : 'f'v : Xv.:-:- -.■;'< HOUSE: 23. -. ■■"; ■'. ■■■ ' . / ~.' .-?