TRIBUTES PAID TO CAPTAIN COOK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18545, 20 August 1928, Page 4

TRIBUTES PAID TO CAPTAIN COOK.

BRITISH AND AMERICAN WARSHIPS TAKE PART.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

HONOLULU August 17. To-day’s Cook celebration took the form of public historical addresses at the Army and Navy Club and the Y.M.C.A. at Honolulu, including one by the Governor, Mr W. R. Farrington, who discussed Hawaii as a centre of friendly relations. The British Consul-General, Mr G. Hastings Phipps, read Sir Henry Newbolt’s paper on Captain Cook’s life and services.

Mr D. W. Davis, Secretary of War, lectured on Hawaiian contact with the world through Captain Cook’s discovery, and Dr Peter Buck (New Zealand) spoke on Hawaii’s relation to greater Polynesia. The British cruisers are at Kealakekua Bay, where the American battleship Pennsylvania joins them to-mor-row in an international tribute to Captain Cook.—Australian Press Association. WREATHS LAID UPON MONUMENT. HONOLULU, August 18. The ceremonies shifted to-day to Kealakekua Bay, where parties from H.M.S. Cornwall, H.M.S. Dunedin and H.M.S. Brisbane and the United States battleship Pennsylvania landed and participated with the Hawaiians, who were in full regalia. Officials placed wreaths from all the countries that were represented on the Cook monument, erected in 1874, also wreaths from the British War Veterans and the PanPacific Women's Conference. The ships’ guns fired salutes. Sir Joseph Carruthers said: “If you wish to see a monument to Captain Cook, behold Australia, New Zealand and the South Sea Isles.” A native feast followed in which four thousand participated. The cruisers return to Honolulu on Sunday, The Brisbane and Dunedin leave for Australia on Tuesday at daybreak and the Cornwall proceeds to Shanghai.—Australian Press Association.