A GREAT EMPIRE-FOUNDER.
In a iettev to the press, Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, 'formerly Commander-in-Chief of. the Australian Naval Station, appeals-i'or support for the British Em T pi re League's memorial in London to Cap-, tain Cook, who discovered and proclaimed, as British territory' both Australia and New Zealand. "The" erection of a memorial in London to Captain Cook," | writes Sir N; Bowden-Smith, "should no longer be delayed. It might induce many a lad to read the account of his life, and learn how he, a boy of humble origin,, educated himself at .a time, when education was not available to all as it is now, and who not only raised, himself to a place of great distinction, but did more than almost any other Englishman to lay the foundations of the British Empire." The. address of the British-..Empire League is Norfolk House, Laurence Pountney Hill, E.G., and the lion, treasurer is Lord lirassey, 21 Park; Lane, W. ■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 23
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157A GREAT EMPIRE-FOUNDER. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 23
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