Captain Cook.

Manawatu Herald, 20 September 1902, Page 3

Captain Cook.

We have received from the Committee formed to raise a National Memorial to the late Captain Cook a subscription list, a copy of which has been sent to all public schools, on which * subs ’ of one penny upwards will be thankfully received. We have been requested to advise all schools that the addressed envelopes enclosed with tbs lists are franked and are returnable free of postage. It was on the evening of Sunday, Bth October, 1769, that Captain Cook landed on New Zealand, in Poverty Bay. The Bay got its name from Captain Cook being unable to obtain provisions and he says, “ I gave the name of Poverty Bay . . . as it did not afford ns a single article that we wanted, except a little wood.” The inhabitants of this colony have, at last, awakened to the fact that to the great navigator Cook no memorial marks his first landing place in New Zealand. This movement is an attempt to rectify the omission, and we will take charge of any small contributions desired to be made, and will duly acknowledge them in our columns. Many shillings make pounds, which are necessary to carry out the worthy object of the Committee.

His Excellency the Governor says, “We cannot afford to leave unnoticed the name of Captain Cook.” Sir W. R. Russell says, “ Cook was in every essential a great Englishman and typical of the race.” The Hev Canon Fox: “ The landing of Captain Cook in New Zealand was an event memorable even in the great history of the world.”