Untitled

Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 10

References to the uses to which the Maoris put some of the trees found growing in the Riccarton Bush. Christchurch, were made by Miss F. B. Murray, in the course of a lecture at Canterbury College on the “Botany of Riccarton Bush.” By rubbing a sharpened piece of the kaikomako against a flattened niece of mahoe, j the Maoris made fire. From the bark of j tlie hitiau they obtained a dye which was ! used for dyeing their flax mats. With the ■ inner bark of the ribbonwood which came ! () (Y j n strips, rope, twine, and fishing nets i were made. Miss Murray showed a small basket of delicate workmanship, made from ribbonwood bark. Another tree exuded a milky fluid, which was used as milk by the ; early settlers.