COOK MEMORIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1545, 29 August 1905, Page 3

COOK MEMORIAL.

(To the Editor Gisborne Times

Sir, —Among others giving their opinion re commemorating the discovery of this our home by the intrepid navigator whom we should all honor by giving him the best niche in our midst, I would point out to the committee on whom devolves the duty of selecting the site for the erection of Such, to the memorial pages, No. 788, and the proposed statue on page 789 of this month’s Life to the founder of Adelaide, Colonel Light. In our case the memorial could be erected to mark the landing place with thp necessary tablets to the discoverer and the South African troopers, and I would suggest the crossing of Peel street and Gladstone road as the most suitable site for ereoting the statue, f<ji

tho following reasons : Tho loading avenues of North Gisborno and tlio main arterial roads of tho East Coast and tho inland country roads, as woll as tho railway approaoh to tho city, all convergo tlioro. In my mind there is not a moro suitablo position, with Mr

Bushnoll’s nice corner building, Mr Hall’s in courso of eroction, andjtho Bank of Now South Wales to bo, and I have no doubt our worthy Mayor ultimately will eclipse tho othor throe by orooting a more substantial and handsomo building than any of them. Don’t eroot your statue on Young Nick’s Head, or wait for tho feline quadrupod vaulting !—l' am, etc., T. J. Dickson.

l(To the Editor Gisborne Tlmeflj {■q ßi jo sooinH to mo that tho memorial committoo would like tp depart from tlio ‘stand thoy have tukon fn placing tho monument around tho Kaiti bench, but tho faot of breaking faith with tho " sohool children and outaido public ” would bo too great a burdon for their minds to bear. If tho seorotary OanDOt afford tho timo, 1 will only bo too.pleased to undortako to writo a circular letter and pay all necessary expenses (and at the samo time oxplain I tho absurdity in,throwing away TIOOO on I tho beaoh), asking thoir opinion as to I whether or not the spot tho committoo! have agrood on should bo adhered to, or a I moro auitablo site, bo choaon, on which to I plaoo tho monument. —I am, etc., I YOUNG NICK.