STATUE OF CAPTAIN COOK UNVEILED IN LONDON.
Mr Mackenzie, High Commissioner, Points Out Our Loftiest Peak Everlasting Memorial to Cook's Work.
AUSTRALIA'S DEBT.
(Per I'ress Association —Copyright.) London, July.7 Mr Herbert Samuel, President of the Local fJoverumen«- Poard, preat the unveiling hv Piince Arthur of Connaught of I'rooks' statue of Captain Cook on the Mai!. Prince Louis of ISattenbcrg, Mv Winston Churchill, Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, and Mr T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, were also present: also the Agents-General and numbers of prominent colonials. Mr Mackenzie said that New Zealand's loftiest peak was an everlasting memorial to Captaiu Cook's work. Xew Zealand's external trade was now equal to the total import and export trade of Britain, Germany, and France at the time of Cook's visit.
Sir George Reid eulogised Australia's debt to Cook.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6134, 8 July 1914, Page 5
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