IN THE KAURI FORESTS OF THE NORTH.
sliiHing Characteristics ot New Zealand’s Most Picturesque and Valuable Industry.
T of the cLlmiv i.nie hlea of the J "' AI 'ANI>-soon, alas to be a th.ng of the past-are amongst the most beautiful and valuable of the present possessions of the Colony. Some tdea of the g.ories of a Kauri Bush may be gamed from the picture on this page of a gigantic specimen in the Pikiwahine Bush, Northern . . ' alroa - Auckland. The average girth of this tree is 28 feet by 60 feet high, and it was estimated to cut into 35,000 feet of timber. On the opposite page are shown two decided curiosities, a Triple Kauri, a tree with three trunks on the parent stump, this being very rare; and yet another with no less than four, which is believed to be positively unique, no other smnlar freak of nature being reported to our knowledge. The triplet is in Taine’s Bush. Maungaturoto, and the quadruple tree at McCarroll’s Bush, Northern Wairoa.
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New Zealand Graphic, 25 December 1905, Page 26
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169IN THE KAURI FORESTS OF THE NORTH. New Zealand Graphic, 25 December 1905, Page 26
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