HONOR TO COOK.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10729, 29 October 1928, Page 5

HONOR TO COOK.

BICENTENARY OF BIRTH COMMEMORATED AT' SHIP COVE (Press Associations BLENHEIM, Oct. 27. In commemoration of the bi-centen-ary of G’aptain Cook’s birth an excursion as held to-day under the auspices of the Captain Cook Memorial Committee to Snip Cove, the favorite haven of the famous navigator. Some 50 people journeyed to the historic spot/ Mr W. J. Girling represented the Government, Mr J'. L, Jones the Port of Picton, and Mr R. P. Furness, president of the Cook Memorial Committee, also made the trip. The first part of the proceedings was the unveiling of two cannon of Cook’s period presented by the British Admiralty. These were placed in position at the base of the monument erected at the Cove-. The ceremony was performed by Mr Girling, speeches also being delivered by Messrs Jones and Furness. Mr Furness made interesting references to the links In the chain starting from the discovery of New Zealand bv Tasman to the present day. Cook, he said, had forged a link between Tasman and the Tasman flyers. One hundred years after Tasman discovered New Zealand, Cook ran away to sea. About 200 years after Cook’s birth, almost to the month, the Tasman Sea was crossed by air. It was not generally known that the airmen Smith and Ulm flew the “Southern Cross” over Ship Cove and encircled tho bays in tho vicinity while picking up their bearings on arrival over New Zealand before appearing over Wellington. It was at .Ship Cove when unveiling tho present monument that Lord Liverpool had received a wireless message giving the nows of Captain Scott’s glorious achievement and death in the Antarctic. This message was picked up by the Tutanekai in Ship Cove. WREATHS IN LONDON NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTED United Press Assn by El. Tel. CopyriEht Australian Preßa Abbh.— United Service (Received Oct. 28. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 27. Among the mass of wreaths placed without ceremony in drizzling rain on Captain Cook’s statue at Admiralty Arch were tho Commonwealth wreath by Mr Trumble and New Zealand’s wreath by Sir J. Parr. ONE OF GREATEST ENGLISHMEN NEW ZEALANDERS’ OPINION OF COOK United Preen Assn, ty El. Tel. Copyright Australian Press AssouJatiou j (Received Oct. 28, 11.5 p.in.) LONDON, Oct. 27. “Hail, Yorkshire, from far New Zealand” wired Sir James Parr in response to a request for a Cook celebration message. The High Commissioner added that when Captain Cook landed on the beautiful shores of New Zealand, it was a land of mountain, forest and lake, populated with fiorce savages. Captain Cook planted the English flag and made New Zealand British forever. New Zealand today is perhaps the most interesting, certainly the most fertile and productive, of all the great Dominions. All this is due to tho humbly-born Yorkshire lad who loved the beautiful new country ha discovered. Every New Zealander revers Captain Cook as one of the greatest Englishmen.