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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 14

Great Names in New Zealand History~No. 1 of a series Tasman S Ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen ABEL 3 TASMAN BORN 1603 DIED 1659 The enterprising voyage commanded by Abel Some of Tasman S crew were killed in a Janszoon Tasman in 1642-3 was organized by Maori attack at Golden Bay: He made no the Dutch East India Company from Batavia to attempt to land, but sailed north along the west find new countries with which to trade. coast, often out of sight of land finally naming Cape Maria Van Diemen (after the wife of the In the ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen he Governor of Batavia) and the Three King' S sailed westward to Mauritius where he refitted. Island, where they anchored on the eve of He then turned south to latitude 44 which he Twelfth Night: followed eastward until, after discovering Tasmania (which he named Van Diemen' $ Sailing north again; he discovered a number Land), he came upon the west coast of the South of Pacific Islands before returning to Batavia: Island of New Zealand on 13 December 1642. The Bank of New South Wales, which today This is called Staten Landt in the belief that it provides banking facilities at over 1,000 points in was part of the land discovered by Jacob Le New Zealand, Australia; Fiji, Papua and New Guinea, was the first- bank in this whole vast Maire in 1616. When, in 1643, it was proved to area: It is therefore fitting that it should pay be an island, the Dutch Government realized tribute to Abel Tasman and to all those whose that Tasman'$ belief was mistaken, and his names and deeds are part of the tradition of discovery was then re-named New Zealand. which New Zealanders are justly proud. BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES Oldest and largest trading bank operating in Australia and New Zealand HAS SERVED NEW ZEALAND FOR NINETY-FIVE YEARS N75706