import\articles\204\What%27s in a name.html indexed_doc HTMLPlugin 936 What's in a name.html What%2527s in a name.html en iso_8859_1 What's in a name? HTML http://articles/204/What's in a name.html http://articles/204/What's in a name.html -35.715716 35W 71 715 7157 -35.715716 174.334487 174E 33 334 3344 174.334487 HASH68c4e1f995694b97b702b5 1360633628 20130212 1360633634 20130212 HASH68c4.dir <h2>What's in a name?</h2><p>What's in a name?  Shakespeare may have had his own ideas, but the subject of whether Whangarei's Mt Parahaki should in fact be named Mt Parihaka caused a strong and often bitter debate in 2005.  </p><p>While many local residents - and also the owners of businesses which had named their companies after Parahaki - clearly supported retention of that name, iwi believed it was wrong.  Kaumatua Te Ihi Tito had approached the district council in 2003 about the name returning to its original Maori, Parihaka (name of another famous site in Taranaki).   The then mayor, Pamela Peters, had announced in June that the proposal to correct the name was being recommended by the NZ Geographic Board on precisely that basis. The final decision was eventually  made in favour of Parihaka by the minister of land information. </p><p> </p><p> </p>