COURTENAY PLACE
To the Editor, "The Listener" Sir-Following the intriguing article by your vivacious contributor, " Thid,’ on the above metropolitan area of Wellington, it may interest your readers to learn one suggested derivation of the name. Mind, I do not vouch for its accuracy: ’Tis but a legend, after all. and you know how nebulous these traditions are. Well, here’s the story. One day, in the long ago, when a stream ran down the middle of what is now Kent and Cambridge Terrace, 2 man was fishing in it. "Hullo!" said a passer-by, " fishin’, what? Had any luck?" "O, nothin’ much," was the reply. " Jest a few flat fish." "Ah! CAUGHT-ANY-PLAICE?" asked the curious one-and somehow the question became » byword and, finally a title.
This may prompt your readers to supply. other alleged origins of place-names, Yours, etc.,
L.D.
A.
Lyall Bay, January 18, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 10
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