By 1946, eight years after the change, the council was forced to send the SPA a letter asking them to commit to using the new Seaview name. But the following year, the association s secretary, J Gibb, wrote to the Mercury accusing the council of having bypassed residents wishes in their original decision. Gibb said 59 residents had petitioned for the town to be renamed Pan Bay. My association uses the name Bucasia in all matters appertaining it the post office and telephone, which is the only place on which the name was bestowed, Gibbs said in a letter published on February 22, 1947. We have fallen in with the council s wishes so far, but we deny the council s right to dictate to us ⦠what name we choose to call the locality in our private conversations.