It wasn’t in the 1957 edition either.
This is from Carol Sawyer who comments: “Look, let’s cut to the chase here. Why change a longstanding name for the country, recognised everywhere, accepted without demur by generations, only to replace it with a fake Maori name, cooked up by a European? Where is the widespread demand for this? If the people who are pushing this are so confident of their case, why are they so scared of putting it to a referendum?”
davidwwyatt said:
Good post
Brian Johnston said:
Those that are pushing are a minority – think communists.
They would lose massively in a referendum.
The whole mess has to be reversed.
Waikanae watchers said:
Leftists in the Mainstream Media are pushing it hard too, not all are doctrinaire neo-Marxists, although the majority are.
K R Bolton said:
Not only neo-Marxists, but commercial interests, which intrinsically have no more sense of national identity than Marxists, and are far more subversive.
Gaire Thompson said:
well said