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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 10

Even when the kauri is felled it sometimes make a brave effort to train a new lease of life. This characteristic was referred to at a meeting of the Auckland Institute by Mr. T. L. Lancaster, of the University College (reports the "Star”). He instanced particularly two old kauri stumps of trees at Titirangi that had been cut down over GO years ago. These relics showed signs of life, and investigations revealed the strange fact that a bit of the root in each tree had grown into (ho root of a neighbouring young kauri, and the obi slumps were thus drawing life from their younger companion. The same sort of thing had been observed at other parts of the Waitakere country.