 tairawhiti museum
THE JOURNALS OF
CAPTAIN COOK
Right: Dr. Richards discussing the journals with the Director of the Tairawhiti Museum, Dr. Monty Soutar.
Jack Richards has presented to the Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne New Zealand, a complete set of the first edition of the journals of Captain James Cook, which were purchased at auction in London in 2006.
 The nine volumes plus maps were published between 1773 and 1779 and give a detailed account of Cook’s voyages. Gisborne was the first landing place in New Zealand of James Cook in 1769 and there is a great deal of interest in Gisborne in Cook and contacts between Cook and New Zealand Maori during this period.
Jack Richards has also given a grant to the museum in his hometown, to establish a storage room for the museum’s permanent collection of paintings. The room will be designated as the Professor Jack Richards Fine Arts Room.
Left: Dame Anne Salmond, a leading Cook scholar
and pro-vice
chancellor of Auckland University, who also grew up in Gisborne,
speaking at the hand over ceremony for the Cook journals.
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