Replying to . a ".._ protest'' from tho Ngairo factory dircctors'j'the 'Secretary of the Postal Department'.regrets 'that the old spelling cannot, bo reinstated as Ng'acre is the correct spelling of ./tho Maori word ■ (says the .' 'Taranaki Herald's" StratfqrcU correspondent)'. Tho directors ore not satisfied,, and. are now, tackling the for Thoy aek what-authority, exists for the spelling of Maori words,- arid whcthor thirty- years. , use of the word "Ngaire" is not' enough to establish. it as the name of. the place against any other combination- of letters, even supposing it-docs - hot tally with someone's idea of the correct spelling of a Maori word from which it ia supposedly-derived.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 19
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106Untitled Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 19
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