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Shannon News, 14 April 1927, Page 2

“lii the Palmerston North Esplanade Gardens,, hundreds of miles south of the national habitat of the kauri, are two kauri trees, both growing rapidly, though one, unfortunately, had the top injured a year or so back,”, stated Major Sandle when lecturing at the Citizens ’ Luncheon Club. The other , tree, the speaker went on to state, had grown about five feet higher in .the last three years, and this year'had “ : ” already made eighteen inches of new wood.