COOK CELEBRATIONS.
BRITISH-AMER 1C A N CO-OPERA-TION.
(Australian Press Association.) HONOLULU, Aug. 14. The British . and American naval authorities conferred aboard the H.M.S. Dunedin and delegated the U.S.S. Pennsylvania to lead ithe manoeuvres in connection with the celebrations in honour of tho famous navigator. Captain James Cook. Three British cruisers will follow the Pennsylvania on Wednesday to Waimea, Kaua Island. Marines and seamen will dedicate the Cook monument. It will be the first time armed British troops have landed there since Captain Cook did so on January 20 1775. Tho cruisers will later go to Napoopoo where a bronze tablet has been erected to the memory of William Wheatman, the seaman who read tho burial service over Captain Cook.
Tho British ships will then return to Honolulu for the huge Hawaiian memorial pageant to bo held on Monday.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 221, 16 August 1928, Page 7
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138COOK CELEBRATIONS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 221, 16 August 1928, Page 7
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