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    SHELTER FROM THE STORM

    Mar 01, 2020 4 minutes
    by SIR ROB FENWICK
    photograph by PETER REES

    If I had a favourite tree, it’s the ancient pūriri standing massively in a canopy of forest on Waiheke Island. Miraculously spared the axe during the tragic kauri cutover of more than a hundred years ago, this pūriri has often had me leaning against its gnarled length, gazing up at the leaves that were once sprinkled with ash from Rangitoto’s eruption some 550 years ago.

    Iwi would have appreciated this tree, and Captain Cook would’ve seen those same towering branches as he cruised the Waiheke coastline in 1769. It’s remarkable to think what this tree has

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