WORDING OF PLAQUE
No Change By Govt (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct 13. Any correction to the plaque on the new Captain Cook statue at Kaiti Hill, Gisborne, would have to be made by the people of Gisborne, an Internal Affairs Department spokesman said today. The plaque says: “The first pages of New Zealand history as a British nation took place within sight of this plaque. Young Nick’s Head, seven miles distant across the bay, was the first point of land sighted.” It has been said that high land in the interior of the country, and not Young Nick’s Head, was the first point sighted.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32119, 15 October 1969, Page 12
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