GREAT NAVIGATOR

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1933, Page 3

GREAT NAVIGATOR

CAPTAIN COOK’S WORK. ,

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

-SYDNEY', May 4

Thanks to the activities of trie Royal Historical Society of New South Sydney i-s. never allowed to forget the anniversary of the landing on the shores of Botany Bay of Captain Cock. Trie genius 'of Captain Cook has been the subject’of many orations during the past week, many ox them over the wireless from the national stations, and the speakers have gone to great pains to emphasise the importance of his early navigation feats on the shores ofVAfistralia and New Zealand.

“Cook -definitely links Australia with New Zealand,” said one -speaker over the air, “but 1 regret to say that there is not the feeling of co-operation between the two countries now that there should he.” Cook’s explorations on the coast of the Domiriiou was the subject of a special talk- just a reminder to Australians that Cook went elsewhere than to the famous Botany Bay.

ANNIVERSARY OF LANDING

The 163rd, anniversary of the landing of Cock at Botany Bay, first known hg Botanical Bay, was celebrated 011 Saturday last at the actual landing place, Ivurnell, an inaccessible little, hlackwater. Kurncll nestles with its ancient fir trees and monuments in the scrub on the sparselypopulated shores of Botany Bay. Although the afternoon was wet, many made the pilgrimage across the bay in special launches, and they listened with interest to further orations on the famous navigator, whose first report on Australia to the Imperial authorities was so favourable. The anniversary was accompanied,by a function of hutoricsil interest—the erection of a stone to mark tlio burial place of the only member of Cook’s crew to die in those parts. He was an A.B. named F’orby Sutherland, and the vvast tlio xfir'st* .vyhilfb-.mart - to foe buried iu Ausf Lilia. ;*Tj.f ( p foyir.gr Chief Justice -qf :Nc,w; South Wales also unveiled a memorial tablet to-' - the, ! Into • Sir Joseph Carrutliers, ydioieiP pame,’, until his death hot yeani v'i's' always associated with Kurnell:' • Sir: Joseph; •was one of the greatest a-dniirci's 1 of’ Cook and probably did;'ririorei,. .thari - any other Australian toperisnre>■that-? his name would be kept gfepii,; •

NiiM-iiiD INTERESTING CEREMONY. "

There was another interesting ceremony on the northern shores of Botany Bay—a ftjjice,,;full,of,,, historical,interest: to the. people cf Sydney. Father. Recovenr, the scientist who accompanied Admiral La • Rerouse’s expedition to the South -Sea Islands 145 years ago, was wounded 1 by a ''native spear at Samoa, and he died the day after the ship readied Botany Bay. lie was buried 011 a little peninsula' near vvliat is now an aboriginal settlement.

For many years mass was celebrated at Father Rereveur’s grave 0:1 tbc anniversary of. :his death,. hut the practice was discontinued when the neighbourhood developed into a busy ti-’.m terminus. This year the anniversary .was fittingly commemorated, and there- was 11 large attendance.

STABILISE SILVER

U.S. AND CHINA IN AGREEMENT,

WASHINGTON, May 19

A joint .statement Issued to-day by Mr Roosevelt and Air T. V. Soon", Chinese Minister of Finance, said that the two were in agreement on the measures to ibe taken to solve the world , problems and that it was considered “essential that the price of silver, the great medium of exchange of the East, should be enhanced and stabilised.”

Senator Pittman, chairman cf the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the United States delegation to the London Economic Conference, to-clay advocated the 1'.6habilitation of silver, on which he said all the nations witli' which the United States had cUscus'ed the subject®. in international conversations here were in agreement. He declared that the price of silver should be raided and substantially stabilised, but no specific price wn.s mentioned, although it‘was unofficially placed «at 60 cents an ounce. Tt also was proposed that the Governments should agree to abandon the policy and practice cf debasing silver and that the restoration of*the fineness of debased coins bo brought about as rapidly as practicable, and also that tariffs and other obstructions to 1 the free movement of silver should be lowered, or eliminated.