CAPTAIN COOK MEMORIAL.
NEW ZEALAND’S SHARE. . AUCKLAND, October 6 Having completed his. work for the Australian Government in respect to the Captain Cook memorial at Kaawaloa (Hawaiian Islands), Sir Joseph Carruthers is returning by the Aorangi. In referring to the memorial/ Sir Joseph said to-day that the Australian Government had spent £5OO in the erection of a jetty to make it easy for tourists to land. In the past those who wished to visit the spot where Cook died had to go ashore in canoes. On the jetty there would be a granite tablet made from stone taken from Canberra. He understood that New Zealand had voted £2OO as a contribution to the cost, and he considered it would be a graceful act on the part of the Government if that sum were now forwarded. The monument would then be truly representative of the Empire. He suggested that the £2OO should be spent on a drinking fountain made from New Zealand stone. Australia and New Zealand had benefited most by the discoveries of Captain Cook.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3996, 14 October 1930, Page 10
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