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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4214, 4 July 1882, Page 2

The kauri tree has for a long time been supposed to bare reached the most southern limit of to growth at Katikati, near the Ohineroa Gorge, where William Thompson! was buried. It appears, however, that the kauri is to be found further south up a branch of the Wairoa river, at the back of. the Faengaroa block. The Maories have for a length of time been aware of the existence of from sixty to one hundred trees there, but the track' to it goes through . such rugged and precipitous country, with huge falls and entangled undergrowth, that the locality is visited but very rarely. So far as we can learn, Messrs 0. and N. Kensington are the only Europeans who have ever visited the locality, and seen the kauri trees. They report that it is exceedingly difficult to get to the place in question, and that the trees are full grown, and the majority of them over four feet in diameter. The journey,to where the trees grew takes fire hours to accomplish from the native settlement at Paengaroa, so that anyone desirous of seeing the most southerly spot where the kauri grows has no easy talk to undertake.—B. P. Times. *