Cook Celebrations Open In Whitianga
(New Zealand Press Association)
PAEROA, June 10.
The celebrations marking the bicentenary of the arrival of Captain Cook in New Zealand in 1769 have begun in Mercury Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula.
A combined church service was held in Whitianga re- ' cently to open a series of ' functions to be held during the next few weeeks. The chairman of the Coromandel County Council and the local bi-centennial committee, Mr W. A. Donovan, described the proposed Cook Memorial Park, which is to be established on a headland
overlooking the bay where Captain Cook spent several days and observed the transit of Mercury. Mr Donovan said that it was only fitting that Kupe, the great Maori navigator, should also be remembered. It is believed that he made his New Zealand landing at Mercury Bay, or Te Whanga-nui-O-Hei, as it was named by the Maoris.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32011, 11 June 1969, Page 26
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