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captain cook
Captain James Cook FRS was a British explorer, navigator,cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to Australia in particular however Cook was attacked and killed in 1779 during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific while attempting to detain the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii, Kalaniʻōpuʻu, to reclaim a cutter taken from one of his ships after his crew took wood from a burial ground. -
Māori land wars
In 1863 British Crown forces invaded Māori lands in the Waikato, unleashing a vicious war that would change this country and region forever during the early 1860s the governor of new zealand (gorge gray) was under pressure to obtain land to grow populatshion for european settlers a fleet of armored gunboats where brought to new zealand to move supplies via the rivers 12000 imperial troops where sent to new zealand.meany maoris where brutally killed by armed cavalry that pursued them. -
king Tāwhiao
Tāwhiao and his people moved southwards, into the territory of the Ngāti Maniapoto, the area of New Zealand that is still known as the King Country. He was a pacifist, or perhaps he was simply a realist who recognized the futility of trying to fight the Colonial government. -
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Band Rotunda
in 1905 the Cambridge Domain Board, under the chairmanship of John Ferguson, put the idea of a band rotunda into action. An octagonal plan was chosen and ordered from the firm of Glasgow Ironworks. The kit set castings arrived and erection began. John Christie, supervised by architect Chas Reid, was hired as a day labourer and Henry Preece carried out the concrete work. -
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cambridge museum
Cambridge Museum has an extensive collection relating to the history of Cambridge, its districts and people.The region's history and culture are the focus of this local museum with archives, artifacts and more. -
Cambridge Domain – Memorial Gates
These fantastic gates of cambridge designed by McNab and Mason were erected in 1911 for £298 10 shillings in memory of Thomas Wells who was the first chairman of the Cambridge Domain Board from 1880 to 1905. The piers are Coromandel granite with polished inscribed panels worked on the blocks. In 1929 James Hooker made a generous gift of the ornamental entrance around the Tom Wells Memorial Gates – making this a unique ‘welcome’ to the park. -
Cenotaph – Jubilee Gardens
It was not until 1923 that enough money was raised to erect this memorial. The architect, Nigel Walnutt put the Italian marble statue of the Cambridge Soldier, plinth and lion, in the middle of a cross. The sculptor was Richard Gross whose great desire to give something worthy without consideration of cost to himself in labour or expenditure, made it possible to erect such a poignant monument at so little cost. £2,000 was raised and the contractors were A & T Burt of Auckland. -
cambridge clock tower
Our clock was originally a feature of Cambridge Post Office (1908) – the building now home to Alpino Cucina & Vino. The clock tower was damaged during the Napier earthquake in (1931) and was dismantled. The current tower was built in Jubilee Gardens and the clock installed in 1934 -
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