OLD LANDMARKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1921, Page 5

OLD LANDMARKS.

STUMP OF FAMOUS APPLE TREE. EARLY NEW PLYMOUTH. The article appearing in yesterday’s Daily News referring to the disappearance of old landmarks in New Plymouth was read with interest by a number of people, especially old identities, who became reminiscent as the result of oldtime memories being awakened. A landmark of another kind was recalled by Mr. Barriball, of Queen Street. He pointed out to a reporter an old £ree stump with somewhat of a history. It appears that the late Mr. Richard Rowe, who came out in the ship Timandra in the early forties, brought with him some applet of first-class quality and, wishing to obtain a supply of this fruit in his new home, he planted some pips near the bank of the Huatoki and in close proximity to where the Powderham Street bridge now stands. In the course of some years a fine big apple-tree grew, which season after season, says Mr. Barriball, was literally covered with fruit, and which, incidentally, was a source of great satisfaction to the boys of those days, who are now men well on in their sixties and seventies. To-day all that is left of this fine old appletree is a bare, denuded stump. Another informant states that Antonio Roderiquez, a former licensee of the Taranaki Hotel, did not hold the Victoria Cross, but his decoration was its equivalent —the N.Z. Cross. Still another pioneer called at the News office with reference to old times, and he said that the site of the Oddfellows’ Hall was in the locality opposite the premises now occupied by Pursers, Ltd., and not as far down in Devon Street as was mentioned yesterday.