CAPTAIN COOK'S MONUMENT.
;■ ;:Sif,r-In yoiir issuo of tho' glst/matt'-; -account of Hip monument to bo erected;'' Cook on Motuara Island, voir- : say" this is where the great explorer' first;- • npistotl tho Union Jack ami took posv.;' ; se-ssum of Aow Zealand in Britain's' name?' slbis* is'* not correct, '.as it ivas/ 1 overly Bay, at iho mouth of tho Taura-'-iifranui. liivpr, where 1 the British flag was first carried. ashore and th© c 0 u utry • 1 nkc-u •• : m, : Britain's name, onj .October-.9, 17G9.;f 4% second occasion vras in..Morcury Bay,- 1 on November 15, Cook's says : - ..."After- displaying Hioi English "colours,-" jy I took.' a formnlV possession' of; it ' ■.iiarao of, his::.-Britariiiic..lli\iestv, : .'.-.' King 1 - the Third." Tho third plows \v«s. - 1 sin" : ;Qncon' (.'harlOttaVSonnd,;!on -January?: S3, liiO. ' This:'may apply to the .S<mth .. Island; 5 but:it' certainly- was' ; not. the. first . place' in' Now: Zealand, and it is to bo : , ■ t liopedi : ;;wli<!itv.i they iore" describing .. tW ;.ovnnt on-.tl}q',mrmiim-ent: that it will be in accordance, with fads.—[ .mi, etc., Vr G.J.B. yiGisbbrnß;o' ,, .f'i£v.'-'.; K/f
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1455, 1 June 1912, Page 6
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172CAPTAIN COOK'S MONUMENT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1455, 1 June 1912, Page 6
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