THE TASMAN SEA.
PROPOSED CHANGE IN NAME. PRECEDENTS QUOTED. Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney. August 12. Mr. E- Andrews, secretary of the Australian Asociation for the Advancement of Science, supplies an extract from the minutes of the third session of the asosciation. held at Christchurch in 3801, to the effect that the Lords of the Admiralty had been requested to adopt the name Tasman by entering it on their charts. The Admiralty accepted the proposition. Professor David, favoring the substitution of Anzac. thought the change could be effected bv agreement between the Commonwealth and Dominion, with the concurenee of the British Admiralty. He pointed out that there were plenty oT precedents for a change of place names. New Holland had been changed to Australia. Monnt Kosciusko and Mount Townsend had been transposed. During recent years St. Petersburg had been changed to Petrograd.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1922, Page 5
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141THE TASMAN SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1922, Page 5
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