SEQUOIA AND KAURI
Sir,-"Sundowner," referring to the Californian Sequoias, writes, "If we have something bigger than these monsters, something to throw at the next American who thrusts a redwood in our face, I am all for letting the fact be known." Well, here’s ‘arf a brick to throw at the next American asking for it. While the largest Kauri cannot compete with the largest Sequoia in height or in girth at the foot, the largest officially measured Kauri easily beat the largest Sequoia in its content of timber. In other words. the largest Kauri was a tree of far greater use to mankind than the largest Sequoia -this of course because the Kauri rises like a pillar, whereas the Sequoia tapers. In my forthcoming The Story of the Kauri I am giving full particulars of our largest Kauris, and quoting authorities. |
A. H.
REED
( Dunedin),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 5
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145SEQUOIA AND KAURI New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 5
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