COOK'S LANDING PLACES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22619, 6 January 1937, Page 11

COOK'S LANDING PLACES

MEMORIALS SUGGESTED GOVERNMENT INTEREST URGED [HY TIvLKG RAl'H —OWN (OKI! KSPONDENX] BLKXHEIM, Tuesday "As an Aucklander myself, 1 am ashamed that this has been neglected *o long." says Captain J. I). McComish, of Sydney, in a letter to the Captain Cook Memorial Committee m which he expressed the hope that the Government may be induced to take practical interest in providing memorials at the various landing places of Captain Cook in New Zealand. Captain McComish, who wrote from Lord Howe Island, where lie is at present engaged in collecting plant specimens for various botanical museums, recently asked for information regarding the Cook Memorial at Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, which was supplied him together with photographs, and in a letter of acknowledgment, he said that he had just written to the secretary of the recently-formed Auckland Historical Society suggesting that the society should take tip the matter of providing suitable memorials at the landing places of Captain Cook in the Auckland Province as a centenary effort. The secretary of the lioyal Australian Historical Society, Mr. Cramp, who would visit Auckland shortly, had offered to see the Auckland people and try to push the matter alon<£. His society had done wonderful work in conjunction with similar organisations and the Government in marking all Captain Cook's landing places on the Australian coast, said Captain McConiish. In one case high school pupils at a place some miles distant from a point named by Captain Cook bad themselves subscribed for and erected a tablet, and this was an example that might well he followed in.Now Zealand. Captain' McComish added that lie would like to see memorials erected in Admiralty Bay and Dusky Sound, both of which places had been named by Captain Cook.