I'm not really bothered either way, I think it would be a good thing, and certainly more inventive than north and south, also Moari never refer to the islands on Marae as N & S in their greetings, always as the proper names.

As for Michael Laws, although I enjoy his talk back, sometimes he is a bit over the top, but thats what keeps him in council i suppose...

I wonder who it was who discovered that there were no official names for the islands. I'd love to have seen their expresion as the realisation dawned.
"yeah sorry team, those are the wrong names..." my bad...