| In Thomas Horton's reign, he pruned back further, replacing with deciduous exotics and natives, including kauri planted in regimental lines. |
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| The solid kauri counter, twenty feet in length, was piled with goods on both sides of the cash register and around the scales. |
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| Inside, the wooden kauri architraves and sweeping stairs were all carved with acorns and oak leaves. |
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| From the moment the first humans settled here they cut a swathe of destruction through everything from kauri to kakapo. |
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| The first Labour government, which presided over our centennial celebrations, saw the planting of many a kauri or pohutukawa. |
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| In the 21st century, thousands of people still come for the kauri, but they are sightseers, not hard-working foresters and settlers. |
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| The piles were tarred ironbark and the beams were kauri with iron brackets to brace them. |
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| The main goods used for exchange were kauri wood and its gum, followed by coal, wheat, bricks, market garden produce and shipbuilding. |
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| In 1901 a new homestead had been built of kauri and lined with macrocarpa. |
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| Here, unusual and ancient giant ferns are frequent, as are scribbly gums and eucalypts, while in places kauri and satinay pines reach high for the sky. |
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| Several women incorporate woven grasses and native timber such as totara and kauri, and use these media to interpret their particular geography and history. |
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| Named after the Maori forest god, the largest living kauri has stretched to 167 feet in height in its 1200-plus years. |
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| Amber has often been imitated by other resins like copal and kauri gum, as well as by celluloid and even glass. |
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| Loggers started wrecking the island's delicate forests in the 1860s, pulling out kauri pines and blackbutt trees. |
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| Examples include cedars, Douglas firs, cypresses, firs, junipers, kauri, larches, pines, hemlocks, redwoods, spruces, and yews. |
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| This stump is an example of the massiveness of pure kauri wood. |
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| Beryl Fletcher, The House at Karamu An autobiographical account of New Zealand feminist author Beryl Fletcher's upbringing in an old kauri villa with a one-roomed school. |
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| This morning I woke to a few young Kauri trees, a couple of twittering fantails and the most crystal blue, pristine sky with a fat orange orb peeking between the trees. |
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