The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1908. THE COOK MONUMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2201, 27 May 1908, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1908. THE COOK MONUMENT.

In tho courso of an address recently given by Dr Hockon, President of tho Otago branch of tho New Zealand Institute, at Dunedin tho following remarks were made by that eminent • authority concerning the Cook monument:

A very fino though plain obelisk has recently beon erocted to Captain Cook at Gisborno, where you will remember ho first landed upon liis discovery of Now Zealand. You will hardly credit it, but it ip the fact, that on two of tho inscription faces have bedn inscribed the names of the local Volunteer officers and miou who went out to tho South Africau war. Vandalism and l sacrilege are abhorrent, but it did seem satisfactory that someone had climbed over the railing and had smeared those two laces with a big, big “D” in tar.

The paragraph in question should draw -attention to the movement which was instituted locally some time back, having lor its object the remedying of the regrettable blunder made in regard to the monument. A sum of money was collected, but presumably it was insufficient for the purpose and little has been heard of the movement lately. It would bo uv thousand pities were the matter permitted to rest where it is at present and it is hoped that the committee which has it in hand will soon show a- revived interest in tho work of collecting funds for the rectification of the former mistake.