| In 1962 the University of Canterbury honoured Ngaio for her writing by awarding her a Doctor of Literature honoris causa. |
| I'm sitting in the shade of a battered old ngaio tree that is toughing it out on the rocks above Otanerito beach. |
| Conan Doyle, Allingham, Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Michael Innes led me to contemporary writers such as Ruth Rendell and PD James. |
| What are we going to do about that moon in the ngaio tree beating like a fontanelle? |
| Among its former inhabitants are Nobel Prize laureate Ernest Rutherford, writers Ngaio Marsh and Keri Hulme, and New Zealand prime minister John Key. |
| Ophelia was modelled on my daughter, Ngaio, because she reminded me of her so much. |
