A CHANGE IN NAME.
Thkrr is an agitation afoot in Palmerston North to change the name of the town to Manawatu. Our progressive neighbouring town has borne the name of Palmerston for upwards of 40 years and has progressed despite the fact that a small town down South is designated by a similar apellation, and the fact, according to a Palmerston contemporary, that there are at least a dozen other chunks ot earth so named in different parts of this small terrestrial globe. What a pity the gentlemen responsible for such an air-beating agitation do not devote their time to some subject of greater moment for the prosperity of their town. To change the name to Manawatu would, on the face of it, be dishonest, tor that mantle covers an area of country of which Palmerston rests on the outer hem, and the thousands of inhabitants within the coutry so named would refuse to allow their dignity to be guttered by being dubbed the “outskirts,” or suburbs. In any case we believe there will be a spirited and overwhelming opposition in Palmerston to a change in name.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 832, 28 April 1910, Page 2
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187A CHANGE IN NAME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 832, 28 April 1910, Page 2
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