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Shannon News, 13 October 1925, Page 2

During excavations on the Winstone Park Estate, Mount Roskill, a kauri log was found in quite sound condition at a depth of 17ft. A quantity of kauri gum, was also found. The excavations had first to be taken through volvanic soil and then solid bluestone lava. The kauri log was perfectly hard and sound, and its presence at such a depth suggests that a kauri forest was growing in this locality prior to the eruption of Mount Roskill, from which the lava rock would most probably have been ejected.