THE KURIPUNI STATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 5

THE KURIPUNI STATION.

[To The r. ltor.}

Sir,— The General Manager of the New Zeadamd' Railways, according to this imioirtniiing'ia. Age, ha® been taking a "rise" out of the Comam'titee of the A. and P. Association, an ooinauection with rewnaming the. station at Kuripuni. Mr Ronayne may foe a : Maori sicholai" for aught I know, and "Kuripuni" may not be proper ' Maoiri, but i® that any reason why' 1 the Gtemieral Manager ishould •showf his laointempt for the W'aiLrarapa iirue in general, and Masterton in particular, by altering tlite .rfamo of the station at all if he'" oould not agree to the name suggested? If the Railway Depsuntmeaiit is so enamoured of. Maori , names, why not alitor the name of the Wellm'gtoni&tatk>n>B, Auckland, Ohri-stclMiroh, Dunedin, and all others not poisa&Eising Maori ■ nannies?" There- is another <ferifling . matter which iMr. Ronayine isoams to have overlooked in hfi» diesire to be jocular, and it is this—the duplication of names, even, 'though they be Maori, is one that all Government Departments should discountenance, and -seeing that there is already a, "Purakau" in the. North Island, it is quite out of place tan .the part of the General Manager to autocratically fix that iiatae to any other I am, etc., \ A PAKEHA.