Ōtorohanga mayor addresses 'Harrodsville' backlash
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Local controversy over a tongue-in-cheek promotion in Ĺtorohanga.
In 1986, the town renamed itself Harrodsville for a week - after the owner of Britain's famed Harrods, Mohamed Al Fayed, sued Palmerston North's Henry Harrod - to prevent him calling his business âHarrodsâ.
But some have complained, after Ĺtorohanga's town sign was covered with a 'Harrodsville' sticker, to mark 40 years since the stunt.
Mayor Rodney Dow says it may have been people too young to understand the joke.
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