AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1922, Page 3

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f AG&TRAUAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. i _____ ' ANZAO. ! (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) j SYDNEY, August 9. 'The “Dally Telegraph” commenting on tac suggestion for a change of name frem Tasman to Anzac Sea, says of all the n opo-als to commemorate appropriately tie Anzac name this is comparably tile best. The Tasman Sea unites the sister Commonwealths which together built up the fame which the 1 word “Anzac” represents. We believe the Anzac tradition will he immortal ' and in order to assist to keep it eonstantlv before us, no grander memorial could he imagined than to call this geogtaphiciiUy Australasian sea by this inspiring name. It will be surprising if the suggestion does not commend itself to all Australian' and Now Zealanders by its signal fitness. There need lie no fear that we should be commemorating the war spirit, which everybody hopes may yet be banished from eveiy sea. We should only he commemorating a superb comradeship of a kind which the world has always admired and will admire always. \ deputation will wait on Mr Hughes on the latter’s arrival at. Sydney requesting that the name “Anzac Sen” lxl substituted for “Tasman Sea”. The Returned Soldiers Congress passed a resolution that the glory of Australia and New Zealand would he immortalised by naming the waters washing both countries Anzac Sea and the civ operation of New Zealand soldiers should be sought with tliat object. MELBOURNE, August 9. Mr Hughes referring to Anzac Sea proposals, asked what can he do. Tasman is an international highway along which travel the commerce of all nations. It was an international question. The colonies cannot alter a map at will.

WHEAT SOWINGS. BRISBANE.’ August 9. Queensland’s wheat sowings Ibis year are twenty five per cent above the previous one and are expected to yield five million bushels, which is a million above the previous highest. Government has approved of a scheme extending advances to cotton growers in order to encourage to develop the industry SATINET’S MAYOR. SYDNEY. August 9. Tile City Council by fourteen to ten, refused to rescind the resolution of rejection of the Lord Mayor’s minute recommending the dismissal of the city surveyor. Mr McElhone subsequently stated he desired to investigate a number if matters, before resigning.