THE DREADNOUGHT.
TO BE' NAMED NEW ZEALAND.
The name of the Dreadnought is to be "New Zealand," not "Zealandia," as was announced by the Prime Minis* ter a short time ago (states Sir Joseph Ward in the Financial Statement). The change is consequent upon a suggestion from the Admiralty that the new Dreadnought should be named "New Zealand," they at the same time expressing their willingness to change the nomenclature of the present cruiser of that name. The Government rondily acquiesced in the suggestion, and upoa its recommendation the existing cruiser of that name is to he renamed the "Maori."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19100720.2.25
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 873, 20 July 1910, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
100THE DREADNOUGHT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 873, 20 July 1910, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in