Tree From Te Rauparaha.
In the peaceful grounds of the Spreydon Church in Lincoln Road, Christchurch, is a cabbage tree which had its origin in much less peaceful surroundings than a churchyard. Its history was related by the Rev. Dr. J. J. North, speaking at the opening of the church’s jubilee celebrations. He had planted the tree himself and was the person best qualified to speak oi its origin; and he had taken the cutting from which it grew from a tree next to the whare from which the Maori warrior Te ißauparaha had been arrested by order of Sir George Grey. The tree had flourished, he said, and he knew of no evidence that it had infected any ministers of the church with any of the cannibalistic tendencies of its former owner.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 22 November 1941, Page 6
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133Tree From Te Rauparaha. Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 22 November 1941, Page 6
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