CAPTAIN COOK STATUE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 17

CAPTAIN COOK STATUE.

THE FINAL WORK. BLOCK OF MARBLE REACHES CHRISTCHVRCH. fts huge block of Carrara marble, 11 tons 18 cwt, in which Mr VuTretheive/'s statue of Captain Wall bo carved, was landed at iiisiffl yesterday morning from, the 'tisjjiti and transported later in Sijto the sculptor's workshop in tiooi avenue. The final work will w begin, and the statue should be MM within 12 months. typd by methods a century old faa its resting-place in the hills to &p«tof Leghorn, Italy, it was sliipPto Sydney and thence, by the to Lyttelton. The land--s*u accomplished by the use of kt ships heavy lift derrick. The ,**•* brought to Christcliurch by Jm taken'on to the workshop on J?? town by a motor-lorry. ' j> m good condition—a lovely , ble '" said Mr Trethcwcv, h J™*" superintended its landing , He expects that Vi ® f hewing the statue will -teat L, months. Although his 3tr Can 0 rough shaping, 186 " ffiust carry out

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