Otago (pronounced oh-tah-goh, with emphasis on the middle syllable) is a large region in the southern part of New Zealand. It was a phonetic interpretation of the dialectical pronunciation by contemporary local Maori in the 1840s of the name of a prominent coastal settlement which, under standardised spelling, is now known on maps as Otakou.

Almost exactly half of the references for ‘Otago’ call the pollen parent ‘Minuette’ and half call it 'Minuetto'.
On the flimsy research of reading the references and noting that ‘Otago’ sounds like ‘Minuetto’ (also a mini and orange red); plus the fact that McGredy used ‘Minuetto’ four years later in his ‘Benson & Hedges Special’, I have therefore changed the pollen parent of ‘Otago’ from Minuette (floribunda, Lammerts 1969) to ‘Minuetto’ (mini. Meilland 1971)