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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19459, 26 December 1934, Page 9

j l 1 a Grand Tree. —Staled to be tbc j ' largest tree ever 'bandied bv the W'aipawa Box and Fruit Case Com- l pany, a huge piiius insignis tree was I cut up at NVaipawa, Hawke’s Bay, | recently. The tree was about sa | vears old, and was over M feet in drib. At Ihe mill if was necessary j : to cut. six inches off the side ot the j log to enable it lo pass under the > ; double breaking-down saw. The Irec . felled was a comparative pigmy to j otliers on the same property. One, magnificent specimen of a pious in- | sianis measures just on 20 leet in , girlh, and is of immense height, while two cotton poplars measured 2 i Inet , and 20 feel respectively in girth, j Fully 120 oaks up to three feel, in j diamclor, and fairly even in size, are growing on the same properly. | i Since Ihe Wriglil brothers Mew j i (heir 'plane 111 years ago, more Ilian i MO,OOO aeroplanes and 50,000 aviation , motors have been constructed ill Ihe. United stales, i i i