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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1939, Page 3

Some New Zealanders, who have scant knowledge of their native trees, have a notion that totaras and kauris will not thrive in loneliness. Of course, they like to live in spelndid companies, but they can flourish as solitary landmarks. Here and there in the Northland one sees a majestic kauri that has escaped the fate of steel and fire —a noble survivor whose trunk is ever coveted by sawmillers for conversion into board timber. In the Northland too, may be seen separate puriris, each with its own great dome of verdure in a dairying field. In valleys of Akaroa one sees isolated white pines, totaras and other natives which farmers have happily spared. Similar lonely natives stand as towers of beauty in many other districts. Of .course the ability of smaller trees, such as the kowhai, pohutukawa. ngaio, matipo and others to grow strongly in solitary state, is well known.