A BIG RISE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10405, 28 August 1911, Page 5

A BIG RISE.

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- < ;the eryw-pan to the fire, **' -' vTh© Masterton. A- x afid £• V* -iioar rooemtly asked; <tfc» BqSWay DeA t vpfcrinbeitf tp raaane off the fltaitdom.' to Sat " <f way,"'«> that #K£Tstation waukl toe *- with the new ShowgnoumxiS' upon whicVib abutted, ana V■* Hho " ata.v«oi«a«iei of fatqicik-owiiieTa would be Abetter ooneerved. The f oillowing tuaexpeoted neply was • read at (the meeting of tite Oomanit<tee of tihe Assocaartion. on Saifanrday : ""Ws)BtT«feiien69 to your letter of (the '2o£h ultimo, urging thaifc (the inairne of ifche fiitaition. at Kuripuni should (be ' changed *o 'Solway,' I have rtihe han- * " our to inform you. that, after giving -the matter eviery consideration, I ire- , » grait ithaifc I cannot ,Boe any -way ih> ao'oede to th© irequest. As, howevier, ''Ktt^ipuni , ia not a, proper Maori name, it has beear decided to change the name of the atartaon to "Punakau' in iaccordanoe with tie pokey of * adopting Maori names- iwhier© prao; ' . T. RONAICNE, <3«neral ' "" Manager." The chainmam, «rpnessed the opin-1 Sim. ttiha* they had got out of ribe foyi, iaarpßia. into the fire. • , ' L Mr Summerell timfc the' now naane, "PuTaloau," meant "a hdg ris©." A member aieniaTked that this naim© was very appropriate—a "big rise" lad been taken out of the Associa- " 'tion* On thei motion of Mr Vaßanoe, aeoonded by MrSutmm«rell>it vfaia decided * -*bafc tlbe I>epaitmientfc be iwrittiein to, aaking that the niame "Ktiripuni" be -Ketaiiwd in the event of "Solway" not being adopted.