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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 70, 15 December 1928, Page 23

Splashes of crimson may be seen on the dark green of the pohutukawas round about Auckland (reports the “Star”). Fifteen days before Christmas is very early for this tree to start flowering, in Auckland. One frequently sees it come out a week before the season after which it has been named, but seldom is it two weeks ahead of time. Many New Zealanders who have never been beyond native shores do not always realise the splendour of the pohutuktiwa. especially when in bloom. It can compare without: shrinking with the golden niohr, the fiery flamboyant, and the famed horse-chestnut. No wonder the first Maori voyagers, who made the shores of the Hauraki Gulf—just near Tiritiri —in summer time, threw away their head-garlands which they had brought, with them and plucked fresh ones of the gorgeous blooms of. the poliutukawa, a gesture which meant renunciation of their old island homes, and :i I login nee to the new, the land of the Long While t'lond. A TEST OF KEENNESS. Ground until it will lop off a hair at a single stroke and made to do it six times—thus are Durham-Duplex blades tested before being passed as "keen. So you never find a dull blade in a packet of IT and D’s. Hardware stores and tobacconists- —Advt-