RANGIORA.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 102, 26 October 1929, Page 20

RANGIORA.

"Fairioll Have you left tho smoky, chimneys, behind at:nil, during the last fortnight? If .you have, why you must have been transformed with that scent that is continuously. riding on the broezp—the perfume of a tree that is bursting its impatient blossoms, which hang like lusty bunches of fruit, only far, far more beautiful to look upon than a bunch of sweet grapes . . . for their feathery flowers sway and sweep with fairy-lightness in tho mild atmosphere. "Not only those flowers charm you, but tho trees themselves as they grow on tho hills, standing out, like a droamland statue in tho pale moonlight. "Tho karaka and ngaio cannot outstand them. Tho karaka polishes its brittle leavos until, sometimes, thoy shine iko mirrors, but in vain ... wo seek the perfume-sender. "Tho ngaio, too, tries, by growing tall and stately, Bonding forth masses of green and spotted-white foliage . . . but again, wo seek tho supple bamboolike boughs. "Thero it grows, a meok little troe with bending boughs, laden with broad daintily-carvod leaves, and tho overdrooping bunch of flower. Forovor Now Zealanders will sing the praises of the Eangiora, and hew its fragrant perfume acts as a tonic to many a weary person, who js longing for homo, which may lie many miles out of Wellington, but that entrancing scent sends all thoughts of headache away, and leavos the journeyor free to enjoy the silent dusk." "SAUCY SALLY. " Titahi Bay.