monkey-puzzle-tree
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A Final Point and an Image Gallery on Monkey Puzzle Trees
While searching Papers Past for information on monkey puzzle trees in Hawera (see last blogpost), I came across two results to do with the Manaia golf course (Manaia is about 12 kilometres north-east of Hawera). A report on the 1937 final of the Manaia Golf Club’s women’s championship includes the following: At the seventh played…
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The Monkey Puzzler
In the course of searching for historical information on the Norfolk Island Pines of Patea Cemetery (see the previous post) I came across an article discussing ‘the shelter problem’ in the Patea region. The anonymous author uses phrases like ‘salt-storms’ and ‘southerly busters’ to convey a serious wind problem. After suggesting that ‘it behoves. all…
