In the heart of a Pinus insignis log the metal of an alarm clock checked a saw in a timber mill in the, Auckland district the other , day (states an, exchange). Evidently, the clock had been placed in the i'ork of the> tree many years • ago, and had become covered witli’Avobd. Another log cut some time ago had four horseshoes buried in it. Plantation timber s much more likely to contain buried metal than native trees, for near a homestead th© fork of a tree invites discarded metal. Even in virgin logs, however, the saw sometimes strikes metal such as a spike or nail once driven into a trunk near an old camping place.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1930, Page 2
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