COOK MEMORIAL MONUMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 5

COOK MEMORIAL MONUMENT.

THE GISBORNE MONUMENT

CRITICISED

(Special to Herald.)

CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Commenting editorially on the proposed Cook memorial at Marlborough Sounds the Lyttelton Times says: "Cook has no adequate memorial m New Zealand, arid we are glad to learn that the' Marlborough movement for the erection of. a monument at Ship Cove is being taken up with enthusiasm. The Gisborne monument is by no means worthy of its object, and we trust the Blenheim Committee will profit by the blunder of the Poverty Bay folk m this connection. Ship Cove is no doubt the most suitable of all sites for a Cook memorial. It is the spot most closely identified Avith the voyager's name, and its . associations give it an entirely national importance. There is good warrant, 5 therefore, for the do cision of the Blenheim committee to appeal to the whole of New Zealand for subscriptions towards the cost of erecting the Cook: monument m the Cove. If tho project cannot be carried out m a worthy manner* it should be abandoned, and the Blenheim people would have shown a poor sense of their responsibilities if. they had not invited the co-operation of tho whole community. We_ think steps' should be taken to organise the movement on more national lines, and that' local committees should be formed to assist the body that has the matter m hand m Bleinheim."