"FREE FROM STAIN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 236, 6 October 1930, Page 10

"FREE FROM STAIN."

CAPTAIN COOK'S MEMORY.

MONUMENT AT HAWAIIAN ISLAND. Having completed his work for the Australian Government in respect to the Captain Cook memorial at Kaawaloa (Hawaiian Islands), Sir Joseph Carrutliers is returning by the Aorangi. In referring to the memorial, Sir Joseph said to-day that the Australian Government had spent £500 in the erection of a jetty to make it easy for tourists to land. In the past those who wished to visit the -spot where Cook died had to go ashore in canoes. On the jetty there would be a granite tablet made from stone taken from Canberra. He understood that New Zealand had voted £'200 as a contribution to the cost, and he considered i.t would be a graceful act on the part of the Government if that sum were now forwarded. The monument Avould then .be truly representative of the Empire. He suggested that the £200 should be spent on a drinking fountain made from New Zealand stone. Australia and New Zealand had benefited most by the discoveries of Capt. • Cook. Sir Joseph expressed pleasure that his book oh Capt. Cook had been favourably reviewed throughout the Empire. "I am not glad for my own sake," he said, "but because it has placed Cook's memory in its rightful place, free from all stain."