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HAVOC IN OTARI RESERVE. Some four or five weeks ago Wellington was visited by one of the most severe frosts of the year. When the director of reserves, Mr. J. Or. MacKenzie, visited tho Otari native tree reserve at Wilton's Bush, ho was amazed to see that some hundreds of tho native trees—punga punga ferns, hinahinas, pigeon-woods, and others—had been stripped bare of every The frost had killed and blackened most of the leaves and fronds, and tho succeeding gales, which were very severe, had shaved the trees clean of every vestige of green they possessed. "It is really a wonderful sight," said Mr. MacKenzie, "and shows how vulnerable native trees .ire to really heavy frost*."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20987, 25 September 1931, Page 10
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