VISIT OF CAPTAIN COOK
ERECTION OF MEMORIAL CAIRN When Captain Cook inspected the coast line and various places in New Zealand, he sailed up the Waihou river, Thames, as far, it is believed, as Kopu. Under its scheme to commemorate places associated with the visit of the great navigator, the Centennial Historical Committee intends to erect a cairn, with a suitable plaque, at Kopu close to the bridge near the roadway. A similar cairn is to be erected at Mercury Bay at the place where Captain Cook observed the transit of the planet Mercury
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 31 December 1940, Page 2
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94VISIT OF CAPTAIN COOK Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 31 December 1940, Page 2
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