LINK WITH CAPTAIN COOK.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1924, Page 5

LINK WITH CAPTAIN COOK.

HISTORIC SPOT IN HAWAII. MONUMENT TO THE NAVIGATOR. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Zew people are aware that there is a tiny speck painted red on American Hawaii and that this little bit of British territory marks the spot where Captain Cook fell. Sir Joseph Carruthers, ex-Premier of New South Wales, who has just eome back from a visit to Hawaii, says the territory is only forty feet square, and it was vested in Great Britain befop the islands were ceded to America. There ia" a fine monument, which is kept in good order out of a vote made by the British Government, but the landing place is in a very bad state, being quite neglected and overgrown. Sir Joseph Carruthers and a companion placed on the monument a wreath of English roses and eucalyptus leaves to the memory of a great navigator on behalf of the* people of Australia, and New Zealand.

On returning to Honolulu. Sir Joseph Carruthers suggested that the American authorities should put up a decent jetty and the surrounding land should be acquired as a public reserve, assuring them that the Government and the people of Australia would deem it an honour to be allowed to contribute to it. The suggestion has been forwarded to the President. The Hon. Mark Cohen had seen the correspondence, and Sir Joseph Carruthers suggested that New Zealand should ask to be allowed to co-operate- The people of Hawaii had taken the matter up enthusiastically, said Sir Joseph, and a number had subscribed. funds for the holding annually of celebrations at the monument to synchronise with the celebrations at Kurnell, New South Wales, where Captain Cook took possession of Australia in 1770.