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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 17

A massive trunk, almost entirely hidden by foliage, is all that remains of the centunes-old elm beneath the shade of which, according to tradition. Queen Elizabeth rented in her barge after a pleasant trip from town to the countryside of Herne Hill. Last year the old dm. which flourishes just inside the grounds ot a house in Half Moon lane, with motor buses passing within a few feet, was operated on with a view to prolonging its lite. The “operation" was successful, and the trunk, some 12ft high, is now a nrass of leaves. Until modern times the Kivcr Effra flowed past the elm. and it was upon this tributary of the Thames — now enclosed in an underground pipe—(hat Qurcn Bess travelled.