“FORERUNNER OF EMPIRE”
CAPTAIN COOK’S LANDING CELEBRATED Press Association. GISBORNE, Sunday. The 158th anniversary of the landing of Captain Cook at Poverty Bay, on his first visit to New Zealand, was celebrated yesterday, when the ceremony took place at the foot of the Cook Memorial on Kuiti Beach. In connection with the event the honorary corresponding secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute received from the chairman of the London executive the following message: “On the anniversary of Captain Cook’s landing in New Zealand the Royal Colonial Institute joins in thankful remembrance of the great forerunner of the British Empire in the Southern seas.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 171, 10 October 1927, Page 16
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