Tuesday, August 13, 1935, was trie ninety-eighth anniversary cf the arrival oi the brig. Governor Macquarie, ' whh Mi and Mrs Davis i-n board, wlm biougiit with them ilif acorns from ."which the oldest oak in New Zealand ! v.as grown. .Mr Davis landed in Paii lua. 150 miles north of Auckland then known as Marsden's Yale and there planted the acorn, and the plant remained there until Mr. Davis shUt'<?a to Waimatfi in 1880, transplanting 4h« young oak at the same lime to the place where it now stands. A curious circumstance in connection with ibis particular oak tree is that it breaks into new leaf very early—in July—and in some seasons Hie new leaves a,re un before ;ili tlie old leaves have lallen. it i'eppeinuo 4 Qm*.- AdH-
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Otaki Mail, 15 September 1922, Page 4
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