WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3010, 22 February 1917, Page 6

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

"FRYATT" AND "CORNWELL" STREETS. I At the meeting of tho Harbqur Board last evening, it was decided to reply to the letter from the City Council asliing the board to reconsider the naming of two streets on tho Waterloo Quay reclamation, that tho board was willing to substitute Fryatt Quay for Arawa Quay, and suggested to the council that the name of Cornwall Street, Island Bay, he altered so that the name of Cornwell Street might bo retained by tho board. Mr. J. G. Cobbe said he thought that they had agreed some time ago to use native names. Ho did not see why they should not. Mr. A. H.- Hindmarsh said that the names Fryatt and Cornwell were as important as any native names. Mr. W. Hildreth pointed out why the names were chosen. Cornwoll was the name of the lad who behaved with such notable bravery in the Battle of Jutland, and Captain Fryatt was the gallant man whom the Germans shot. Mr. M. Cohen: We won't have enough streets to go round if you honour all the brave men in this war.

At this juncture tho secretary (Mr. H. E. Nicholls) read a letter from the secretary of the Fryatt Memorial at Liverpool asking for a contribution to the proposed memorial. • The proposal was to erect a etatue to Captain Fryatt

in London, and the balance was to go to a fund for relieving distress caused by the war among members of the profession to which Captain Fryatt belonged. The chairman said that they might do something, if necessary, towards helping Fryatt's family of six or seven children.

Referring to that aspect of the case, the secretary read a communication from the Merchant Service Guild (which had sent £100), stating that the widow and family had been well provided for by the British Government's compensation scheme, arid the liberality of the company which employed Captain Fryatt. The widow's income amounted

;o £500 per annum. The chairman said that the question

was, should the board contribute to the memorial?

Mr. R. Fletcher said he did not favour spending money on statues. Mrs. Fryatt was well provided for, and it was a pure waste of money to spend money on statues. Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh did not think it was a waste of money. It was a good thing to have a statue of Lord Nelson, a reference to whom was made every year in the schools. He believed in raising a statue as a recognition of the man's worth. In his opinion, when a nation forgot to honour her great men, it would soon be out of the running. And if they were to take, a leaf out of Germany's book, she bclievejl in honouring her great men with statues. A member: And drove nails into them! Continuing, Mr. Hindmarsh said that Kitchener would havo a statue, and why not Captain Fryatt? Seeing that they were interested in the mercantile marine, to which Captain Fryatt belonged, they should be the first to honour the man. He would like to know where New Zealand would be but for such men —let the board honour all of them! If it did not they might as well blot all the men out. A statue was as a. page of history. He moved that £10 be donated to the fund.

Mr. J. G. Cobbe said that he believed in honouring men, and statues of them were an inspiration to the nation. He thoiight the amount suggested was too small. Mr. H. L. Nathan moved, as an amendment, that the amount be 25

guineas Mr Cable seconded the amendment, whieh Mr. Hindmarsh agreed to, and it was madjs the substantive motion, and agreed to. The recommendation of the committee regarding the names of streets was also agreed to.