FIRST WHITE IN POVERTY BAY.
STATUE OF CAPTAIN COOK. [INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE] LONDON, Oct, 4, A .bronze statue of Captain Cook has been unveiled at Whitby, where the famous explorer was apprenticed to a, firm of shipowners and first entered upon his calling as a seaman.
[Captain Cook was, as a boy of 13, bound apprentice to a haberdasher at Staithes, near Whitby, but after a short lapd distasteful experience of selling socks and collars he changed to a seafaring life, and spent, several years in the coasting and Baltic trade. Afterwards he entered the Royal Navy.J
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3652, 12 October 1912, Page 8
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97FIRST WHITE IN POVERTY BAY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3652, 12 October 1912, Page 8
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