WALKED UP A TREE.
A remarkable feat was performed by a Maori at the Northern Wairoa Weenie Club’s annual picnic in the Kauri Park at Kailiu. It was announced that the young Maori, who had been engaged in tree-climbing for kauri gum all his life, would give a demonstration. A tall giant of the forest was selected, and the Maori, shod with specially constructed boots, with strong steel points screwed to the toe, and armed in each hand with an instrument resembling a tack hammer with a sharpened point, literally walked up the side of the tree to the top. The thing was done so smartly that he was nearly half-way up the side of the tree before the public realised that ho had started. When they realised the nature of .the feat, they literally, gasped with astonishment. He was greeted with rounds of applause when he descended,, bringing with him some speciments of gum taken from a fork in the branches at the top.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 4 February 1920, Page 4
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