WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 41, 20 March 1930, Page 7

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

JUST A FEW REFLECTIONS.

(By "Senex.")

"What's in. a name? That which we call a rose by any other, name would" smell as sweet." Thus said tihe immortal William Shakespeare, and while repudiating the very idea that there is any odour, rose-like or otherwise, about Hautana Square, it is suggested that the main principle in the Bard's sapient words,-is applicable. Of his own knowledge this scribe is innocent oi any information as to who, what ; and from what, .originated the mcllifLouoKS name which in the opinion of the resir dents would be desecrated were street naming vandals to be aliowetl to accomplish their "fell purpose, and-—hor-rible thought!—abolish Hautana Square which, mathematical contentions despite, is certainly not a. square as the< average sensible (if" not mathematical) individual knows it. Euclid was pei%haps not (horrible expression) up-to-date, but he laid it down that a square has four sides of equal length. ' And even though he did not have the privilege -of living at the- Hutt, his definition has been good enough for many hundreds of generations and millions of scholars to believe in,.and swear by

as axiomatic.

• But 3ia3 not the wonld-be poet who sends "Senex" the above lines nearly scored a bullseyeJAvhen ihe (or she) suggests that the underlying • cause of the deputation's protest was a ghastly fear least "WE" should, by the darkly mysterious machinations of a common or garden Borough Council, be compelled to leave our aristocratically designat ■ed "Square" and live "just like common people "in a ■' ' street,'' Perish the thought!But the whole matter would, appear to be a storm in a teacup, and as it doesn't seem to matter much anyhow, "Senex". thinks the Conhcil is to be congratulated on having secured a weird' and wonderfujl lesson on the shape of " squares'' and '' triangles'' and having tactfully solved to the satisfaction of the deputation, a dispute which might Jiave wrecked nations, and is .uncommonly, like the famous argument between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. ; . .