CAPTAIN COOK’S MONUMENT.
Per Press Association, Blenheim, February 11. There was a great amount of public interest in the unveiling of Capt. Cook’s monument at Ship Cove to-day. The ceremony took place at midday in the presence of a large “concourse of people wholly representative of Marlborough, and there were a large number of excursionists from ‘Wellington. The function was performed by the Governor, and other speakers were Messrs Fisher, Bell, R. McNab, John Duncan, chairman of the Memorial Committee, and R. McCallum, M.P. for Wairan. The Vice-Regal Party landed from the Tutauekai. Excursion steamers ran from Wellington Nnd Pictou. The Amokura is in the Cove, the boys having assisted in the arrangements. Fine weather prevailed.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10570, 11 February 1913, Page 4
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116CAPTAIN COOK’S MONUMENT. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10570, 11 February 1913, Page 4
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