CAPT. SCOTT'S CAIRN
A PORT CHALMKRS MEMORIAL
(Per Pross Association.)
WELLIXGTOX, Dee. U
The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the cairn to be erected to the .memory of Captain Scott and his party took place yesterday at Port Chalmers. Owing to the heavy rain there was but a small attendance. Tho cairn will occupy ;a commanding site on the hills overlooking Port Chalmers, and will be a conspicuous object A'iewed from nearly all pnrts of the town, and also from ships entering the harbour. When completed it will reach to a height- of 30 feet. Captain Scott was a member of the' English Constitution of Freemasons, and the Port Chalmers Council asked the District Grand Lodge of Otngo and Southland to carry out tho laying o( the stone. Members of other constitutions were also present. The ceremony was performed by the R.W.D. G.M.". Uro. T. S. Graham, nssited by other officers of the District Grand Lodge.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19961, 15 December 1913, Page 5
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