FALL OF A GIANT
The pino was about six feet in diamet(M-. Estimales of its age varicd from 60 to 80 yeai'.s. The Timos was tohi tliat tluk owner of the iiroperty on which the tree stood, realised tliat' inevitahly it would have to be removed. There would he eomplicatious if they waited till the house on the next section were huilt, so he and the poteie tial house-buihler agreed to the simpler eourse. A erowd of three or four dozen people gathered at the site on Saturday iiioniiiig to watcli Mr A. S. Ellis. Among tlie watchers were men from fhe Tauj>o Borough Foimcirs elect ri->. eity department, who had eut tlie power in case tlie tree fell the wrong way. Mr Ellis gauged it perfectly : Jiaving scarfed the pine, liis ehain-saw )>it deeply, and with expert use of wedges made the tree fall exaetly where he needed it.
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Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 289, 22 August 1957, Page 1
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150FALL OF A GIANT Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 289, 22 August 1957, Page 1
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