They were also trialling other varieties such as gum, western red cedar and Lawsoniana. It had become a learning curve for those who had cleared the bush in the 1930s. The Gisborne Herald reported ...

A cloth covering the basket was removed to reveal fresh plantings of holly, cupressus, chamaecyparis, pine and anthurium. A statue of a Sasquatch, along with butterflies and pinwheels, rounded out ...