HONOURING CAPTAIN COOK

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1913, Page 3

HONOURING CAPTAIN COOK

■ "■ ■■■ ♦ — — - THE SHIP COVE MEMORIAL. On the 11th inst. will be performed, in Queen Charlotte Sound, a ceremony of national interest. That is the date fixed for the unveiling of the monument erected at Ship Cove to mark for all time Captain Cook's historic rendezvous. The act of disclosing the memorial to public view will be carried out by His Excellency the Governor, and the Ministry will bo represented by one or more of it's members. The gubernatorial party will bo conveyed to the famous spot by the Tulanokai. Additional importance will be given to the occasion by the presence of the trainiug-ship Amokura, which has been detailed to bo cfc the Cove eti <he day preceding the ceremony, so {hat the boya might assist m the arrangements. Residents of Wellington a.ro given the opportunity of taking part in the tunction by the running of an excursion steamer, the- Mararoa being timed to leave Wellington at 8 a.m. .The journey occupies about three and ahalf hours, and the steamer will bo enabled to return to Wellington at an early hour. It is anticipated that a large number of people will' travel to the Cove on the 11th from Blenheim and Picton, and that the full strength of the harbour fleet will have to be brought into operation to provide for the traflic. Mr. K. M'Nab, of Palmerston North, who conducted a lecturing tour throughout New Zealand recently on behalf of the memorial movement, will be one of the speakers at the unveiling ceremony, and ho will deliver a lecture in Blenheim on the, night of the previous day. The cost of tho Ship Cove monument is about £250. The Memorial Committee also has in band the project of erecting a larger monument on Motuara Island, in the vicinity, to mark the spot where the great circumnavigator proclaimed British sovereignty over tho South Island. The cost of "the bigger wovk h estimated at from £700 to £1000, according to height, and (including a Government £ for £ subsidy up to £400) the committee possess about £600 after paying for the Ship Cove column. "With theso two memorials in existence something substantial will have been done to perpetuate the memory of the .man to whom the New Zealanders owe so much of both moral and material value.