Captain Cook Relic Found on
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NZ Beach
ONE of the medals which Captain Cook distributed to natives in the course of his second voyage to the Pacific in 1772 was recently found on Ryan’s Beach, near Wickliffe Bay, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand. It was the seventh medal to be discovered in New Zealand, and it is believed that four others have been found in the Islands down through the years.
The medal bears on one side the head of King George 111 and on the reverse, the vessels Resolution and Adventure, with the inscription “Sailed from England, March
Mdcclxxii”.
The medals were distributed during the voyage “as testimonies of our being the first discoverers”.
The next meeting of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Ad visory Council will be held on February 20. New Official Members of the Advisory Council this year will be Mr. R. J. Minnitt (Chief Secretary, Western Pacific High Commission), Mr. A. M. MacLeod Smith (Financial Secretary, WPHC) and Mr. P. N. Dalton (Attorney-General).