ABEL TASMAN
MEMORIAL PROPOSED
SIGHTING OF NEW ZEALAND
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
GREYMOUTH, January 24. Following a suggestion made by Councillor J. B.- Kent, a meeting of Greymouth local body representatives today decided that a memorial cairn be erected during the forthcoming Centennial celebrations to commemorate the first sighting of New Zealand by Abel Tasman, on December 13, 1642. The memorial will take the form of a large cairn and will probably be erected on the Paparoa ranges, a short distance from Greymouth. It was these low ranges, two miles inland, that Tasman first sighted on his New Zealand visit.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 16
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99ABEL TASMAN Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 16
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