The Hutt City

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 13

The Hutt City

Sir, —I have read with considerable interest the various names suggested for the renaming of Lower Hutt. While I have a full appreciation of Maori names I must confess that many of . them are not only difficult to pronounce correctly, but very difficult to spell, particularly to overseas visitors and sometimes present quite a problem iu overseas correspondence. The Lower Hutt is- now assuming such importance due to a rapid increase in population and industrial' activity, that the choice of a name calls for most careful consideration, ami accordingly I submit that no more appropriate name could be given to the city of the Lower Hutt than that associated with Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in that he was the founder of Brittania, the first British settlement on the shores of the Hutt Valley. Recently we have commemorated the centennial, and in the process paid great tribute to the name of Wakefield. Taking all these facts into consideration apart from the euphonious nature of the name suggested, I suggest that, consideration be given by the authorities to permanently perpetuate the name Wakefield, by renaming the Lower Hutt accordingly.—l am. etc.. R. H. NIMMO. Wellington, November 15.