CHANCING THE NAME.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 26, 31 May 1915, Page 4

CHANCING THE NAME.

The farmers of (.'ormnn liny, on Akaroa llarhonr, have vindicated their nationality and tln*ii loyally and have freed themselves from what most of (diem felt to he a reproach hy changing the name of their district, says the Lyttelton Times. Henceforth the pretty little hay whore they milk their cows and reap their. cocksfoot harvest will bo known as Colonists

Bay. The new name may hot display Hindi originality, but it as leu*t will not dash with any other postal !esibilation and it will not expose l!ie residents to the unkind remarks that the

ignorant were apt to pass upon iluni and their taste in plane names. ’1 he enlv virtue that eould be .claimed for

•‘German Bay” was that it pre-vnu J a memory of the first settlers, hut ■‘Colonists’ Hay will fill the hill well enough in this respect. It was here that some of the immigrants of the Comte <!e Paris settled in 1840, and a rt ference to the long-gone pioneers is appropriate.