"POVERTY” BAY.
THE PREMIER’S ADVICE. Referring to the address presented to him on Thursday night Mr Seddon said : “ There is only one discordant note in the whole address, but to mo it sounds very harsh.” The committee here looked in blank astonishment at one another, wondering after the care they had taken and everything having gone so well up to that moment what dreadful blunder had been made. “ I refer to the name of Poverty Bay. I detest that name (applause), and do not see why ■ the place should be branded with such an odious name through a little disappointment of Captain Cook a hundred years ago. It was a libel on the place, and they should try to remove it. Indeed, said Mr Seddon, “I would almost carry through an Act of Parliament to blot out that name—stamp it out of existence, so much do I abhor it.” “ Strike it out,” he again vociferated, “ strike it out of my address at any rate.” (Loud applause and cries of “Right you are.”)
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 29 March 1902, Page 3
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