CAPTAIN COOK’S DIARY
MISSING PAGES. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 30. It has been customary for some years for the Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute at Gisborne to celebrate at an appropriate function the anniversary of the landing of Captain Cook at Poverty Bay on his discovery of New Zealand. As the time for that ceremony is approaching, Mr J. R. Kirk, local honorary corresponding secretary of the Institute, who is visiting Wellington, paid a visit to the Alexander Turnbull Library with a view to perusing the log written by Captain Cook. This almost priceless record of the historic voyages of the great navigator is one of the most cherished possessions of the Library, and is in an excellent state of preservation despite its age, 153 years.
Mr Kirk, on searching for Cook’s account of his entry into Poverty Bay, found that the pages of the log dating from October 7 to October 15, covering the period of Cook’s landing off Turanganui Rixxr, his subsequent landing where now stands the town of Gisborne, and his departure northwards, had been cut from the dairy. The book contains a memorandum dated November, 1899, noting the absence of the pages. Adequate precautions are taken at the Library to prevent damage to books.
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Southland Times, Issue 19653, 2 October 1922, Page 6
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211CAPTAIN COOK’S DIARY Southland Times, Issue 19653, 2 October 1922, Page 6
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