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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 9

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“PACIFIC PARADISE” NEW ZEALAND OR HAWAII (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. “Would take from us our Paradie,” is the pathetic heading of a recent leading article in the Honolulu "Advertiser.” The Americans appear to be very displeased at the publication by the New Zealand Government Publicity Office, of •the illustrated booklet, “New Zealand, Paradise of the Pacific,” and they claim that this title belongs to Hawaii and not to New Zealand. The article states: “It is something of a shock to discover this attempt in one fell swoop to rob Hawaii of a most appropriate name for her heavenly atributes. “We have been to some trouble to look up the reports and records bearing on the exclusive right of Hawaii to this phrase. The earliest we could find appeared in an article in the New York ‘Observer’ of March 19, 1572, by William R. Bliss. In ‘A Trip to Hawaii,’ he refers to Hawaii as a ‘Paradise in the Pacific.’ Also, ‘There are so many things to see in this Pacific Paradise.’ “In 1887 the ‘Paradise of the Pacific’ magazine was founded. King Kalakauna proposed the name, which was adopted. The magazine celebrated its half-centry birthday with a presentation Christmas number. “New Zealand can profit little by the use of this phrase. Whatever right it may claim to it as having been casually used to describe that country, Hawaii long ago had it stamped deep into its character and individuality. As well try to filch ‘Aloha’ from us as ‘The Paradise of the Pacific.’ It is a title no other spot on earth can fill to completeness. New Zealand must seek further to be so properly christened.”