BATTLESHIP'S BELL.
A LITTLE DIFFICULT*.
; : : ;Some"; 'time ! throughout -the'' Dominion -.contributed; of 1 their:penpe;tb purcbise^a^silver-'bfeJT and-i. shield . for;. presentation;: to'the, battleship.:. New-Zealand.; At' •thec'samo :time:£sUo -was .invested,;'the interest to !be devoted to: providing a'shooting fund on: the-battleship. ..Recently it.' ; was de-< ,'oided that theVname -of. .thisv-battleship' should bo-'changed' to\-"Maori,'?;;; ;th© name'■:"'."New; Zealand"'.being' reserved for: the-new' Dreadnought.-..-The' ques-;, tion ■ now; arises:... whether the • bell j and shield:.should;'be;-retained;;byithe VoidNew Zealand or transferred -.'to'-:the : new, New: Zealand.;: Mr. : Craigie,: member for Tiinaru, who was' largely':instrumental in /inciting ; the; school children to:make the .presentation to the:battle-' ship,- asked ihe.'Prime ; Minister, yesfer-.: day to express an opinion-on; the point. ■■Sir, Joseph. Ward .; said; he,-..foresaw' .some .difficulty..in .transferring .the. prer,-sen-tation.: from one. vessel to'.', the. other. It had distinctlj'. been made to the vessel then, named the. New Zealand. '.{Jy
.Mr. J. Allen-suggested adding a, 6ec'ond. inscription,to the:-presentation to 'coyer the change in. the name of the ship.; '.''■;--'■';■: -•'The Prime Minister:promised to communicate with the .Admiralty on the point.':. '.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19101005.2.43
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
163BATTLESHIP'S BELL. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 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