POVERTY BAY.
At a meeting -of the Cook Memorial Cornmil tee on the 22nd tho'question of the site of the monument w«jS discussed, Mr Mason (of M'Nal> «nd llalon, the designers) haviiig adversely reported on tho hill feibe as unsafe. It was unanimously agreed to place the memorial on the historic site where Bishop Williams's 'houso had stood. This position is not so commanding as the original -one, but is almost on the actual landing plaoe. A man named Alfred John Power, sentenced to six months at Gisborne, had been given a chance to go into the country to look for work. He only got a& far as the Park Racecourse, where he got the key, tool; up his quarters in a room of the grand stand, and defied the caretakers.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 30
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131POVERTY BAY. Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 30
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