CAPTAIN COOK STATUE.
The Captain Cook Memorial Fund have issued an appeal for £1250, which his require.! to complete the £3000 needed to raise a statute to the navigator in the metropolis. In the course cf their appeal, Sir Herbert Samuel end Lord Brassey say: "To J-uv-es Cook n:ore thp.n to any other man is due tho fact that to-day Australia ar.d New Zealand ere the homes of Britkh people and parts of the British Empire. He, more than any other man, opened to mankind the Southern Seas. Ke taught our N?,vy the way to .jrae an enemy more deadly than ' '" ""ms—the
scurvy. And in these days, when the national interest in Antarctic explora-
tion is so keen, it is well to remember that for half a century it was he who held the furthest-South record. Among the great Englishmen who have been honored by memorials in the metropolis of the Empire, it is high time that Captain Cook should take his place."
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Northern Advocate, 11 April 1911, Page 2
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