CAPTAIN COOK

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 September 1924, Page 5

CAPTAIN COOK

MONUMENT IN HAWAII

IBY TELEGRAPH —-PRESS- ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, Sept. 15

Few people are aware that there is a tiny speck painted red on American Hawaii and that this little bit of British territory marks the spot whereCaptain (Cook fell. Sir Joseph Carruthers, ex-Premier of New South Wales, who has just come back from a visit to Hawaii, says the territory is only forty feet square, and it was vested in Great Britain before the islands were ceded to America. There is a fine monument, which is kept in good order out of ai vote made by the British Government, but the landing place is .in-la. vtery bad state, being quite neglected and overgrown. Sir Joseph Carruthers and a companion placed on the monument a wreath of English roses and eucalyptus leaves to the memory of a great- navigator on behalf of the people of Australia and New Zealand.

On returning to Honolulu, Sir Joseph Carruthers suggested that the American authorities should put up a decent jetty and the surrounding land should be acquired as a public reserve, assuring them that the Government and the people of Australia would de.em it an honour to be allowed to contribute to it. The suggestion lias been forwarded to the President. The Hon. Mark Cohen had iseen the correspondence, and Sir Joseph Carruthers suggested, that New Zealand should ask to be allowed to co-operate. The people of Hawaii had taken the matter up enthusiais'tically, said Sir Joseph, and a number had subscribed funds for the holding annually of celebrations at Kurnell, New South Wales wheie Captain Cook took possession or Australia* in 1770.