OUTSIZE IN TREES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 11

OUTSIZE IN TREES

LARGE FIATS TNSIGNTS Stated to be the largest tree ever handled bv the Waipawa- Box and FruitCase Company, a huge pinus insignis tree was cut up at Waipawa, Hawke’s Pay, last week. It was originally planted‘by the late Sir Henry Bussell on the properly now occupied by Mr. Andrew Riddell" and known as Mount Herbert.

Tito tree was about 55 years of age, and was over I4tt. in girth. At the mill it- was necessary to cut 6in. oil the side of the log to enable it to pass under the double breaking-down saw.

Oil inquiry from Mr. Riddell it was found that the tree felled was a comparative pigmy toothers on his property. One magnificent specimen of a pinus insignis measured just, on S3lt. in girth, and was of immense height, while two cotton poplars measured 24l’t. and 2011. respectively in girth. Mr. Biddell also has probably one of the linest- stands of oak trees in the Dominion. Fully 120 oaks of anything up to 3ft. in diameter and fairly even in size, range each side of a drive. Atthe homestead two enormous specimens of redwood-one a Wellingtonia and the other a gigantic sequoia semperimvirous —were stated by a timber expert with! Canadian experience to he the best of their kind he had seen in New Zealand.