Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:31:17 +1200
From: Margaret Trawick <trawick-AT-clear.net.nz>
Subject: Re: Cultural Landscape: renaming streets, [re]locating monuments


Colin - No offense taken.  So you lived in Palmie too, and you liked it too?
I love the big ferns and the little fantails and the windmills on the ridge
and the amazing views.
Best,
Margaret



----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Kenworthy" <c.kenworthy-AT-ecu.edu.au>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Cultural Landscape: renaming streets, [re]locating monuments


> Margaret,
>
> I did not mean to offend. You are right.  There is not one in Palmerston
North,
> whihc I think is one of the best places I have lived in.  But statues of
the
> great/little Queen do seem to be almost  everywhere else in NZ.  Even in
> cities that are quite small by Australian standards.  No you will not need
to
> eat your hat.
>
> Australia, of course, named two of its states after Queen Victoria. There
has
> not been and I do not expect that there will be any attempt to change
these
> names.
>
> Margaret Trawick wrote:
>
> > >
> > > A trip to New Zealand will show a statue of Queen Victoria in almost
> > every
> > > city.
> >
> > I strenuously object to this slur on the fair country in which I live!
If
> > there is a statue of Queen Victoria in Palmerston North, I will go out
and
> > buy a hat and eat it!   And I am lucky to be able to see Taranaki, as
well
> > as Ruapehu, from my office window on a clear day.  We all call it
Taranaki.
> > The name "Egmont" is just plain ugly.
> >
> > Margaret
> >
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> Colin Kenworthy
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