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	tawa - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The Tawa tree (Beilschmiedia tawa) is a New Zealand broadleaf tree common in the central parts of the country.
		Tawa is often the dominant canopy species in lowland forests in the...
		TAWA is a nonprofit organization promotes the arts in the greater Trenton Area, NJ.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /tawa.html (128 words)

	TARAIRE and TAWA - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		Tawa occurs in lowland to lower montane forest from almost the North Cape to the Seaward Kaikoura Range in the South Island.
		The timber from both trees is used commercially, principally for furniture and flooring, though it requires preservative treatment to protect it from the common house borer.
		Tawa forest, on the other hand, is still comparatively extensive in the centre of the North Island, and much is likely to remain because of steep topography or high elevations.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/T/TaraireAndTawa/TaraireAndTawa (441 words)

	Courier Electronic Edition: 121702
		Tawa Tree Service, of Ottawa, was hired by the city to do the job, which also will involve removing three hazardous trees.
		Local and state tree specialists have warned that Findlay is filled with hazardous trees which could fall or lose a limb in a storm, killing someone.
		Besides countless hazardous trees throughout the city, numerous others are on their way to becoming hazardous because of neglect or bad maintenance practices.
	www.thecourier.com /issues/2002/Dec/121702.htm (3134 words)

	Bushmans Friend: New Zealand Native Plants & Nature Walks - Native Plant Information - New Zealand, native ...
		The ability of tawa to survive in the wild is now dependent on the association the tree has with these birds.
		Tawa has a graceful manner in which the willow like foliage hangs from the branches.
		When the wind blows and the sun is shining this tree is a garden splendour as the leaves display their blue undersides.
	www.bushmansfriend.co.nz /xurl/PageID/9165/ArticleID/-31965/function/moreinfo/content.html (299 words)

	Dacrydium cupressinum description
		It is a true rainforest tree and in some forests is the main canopy tree, while in others it is more scattered and may be seen only as an emergent tree (Metcalf 2002).
		A tree 42 m tall and 253 cm dbh is recorded from near Pureora, New Zealand (Burstall and Sale 1984).
		Within the country, it is extremely widespread, growing as an ornamental, as a recruit in pasture land, and of course as a dominant forest tree in many native forests.
	www.conifers.org /po/da_m/cupressinum.htm (1507 words)

	Space with a Soul
		At Tawa Montessori the outdoor environment is as open-ended and simple as possible.
		It is integrated with the indoor classroom with one sense of place and identity, a part of the classroom rather than a retreat from it.
		There is a variety of trees, herbs and shrubs and grasses that the children can explore and interact with.
	www.tawamontessori.co.nz /spacewithsoul.htm (190 words)

	Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves - Welcome
		The Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves Inc. is a local community group formed to promote and enhance the conservation and long term preservation of bush reserves situated in the Tawa Basin and to liaise with the Wellington City Council to achieve these aims.
		Unfortunately these trees can take up to fives years before they are of a suitable size for planting out into the bush and existing nursery ground space available to the friends is at a premium.
		Therefore if you live in the Tawa locality and have some spare backyard ground space in a shady situation and are prepared to monitor the trees and occasionally water them during extended dry periods, we would like to hear from you.
	www.tawabush.wellington.net.nz (1029 words)

	Tawa Historical Society - Tawa History
		Tawa’s 19th century origins mean that some very old structures remain, a few of which are included in the Heritage Trail.
		Tawa Flat is blest with a flag station on the Wellington-Manawatu railway line, the train stopping only when signalled to pick up or set down passengers.
		Nott is a son of one of the earliest Tawa Flat settlers – the late Mr.
	www.tawahistory.wellington.net.nz /tawa_history.html (1475 words)

	food plant tree taraire
		Tawa is found in lowland to montane forests throughout the North Island and in the northern part of the South Island.
		They were most often cooked in a boiling spring or roasted in the ashes of a fire or steamed for a couple of days in a hāngi (earth oven).
		tawa were also spread out on platforms in the sun to dry but the Rotorua Māori would dry them on flat stones placed over steam vents.
	www2.auckland.ac.nz /info/schools/nzplants/food_tree_beilschmedia.htm (291 words)

	New Neopian Times
		The tree looked as if all the life had been drained out of it, which was unusual.
		Tawa smiled a contorted smile as she pulled her paw out of the hole.
		Tawa slipped the bracelet onto her paw and dashed back the way they had come.
	www.neopets.com /newnt/index.phtml?section=16345&week=134 (1846 words)

	Wellington Local History - Tawa/Linden
		After rapid housing expansion in the 1950s outside the Tawa Flat area, the name was changed (on Feb 23, 1959) to the Borough of Tawa.
		The Tawa Schools and Community Music Festival takes place once every two years, and the last one was in 2004.
		Tawa Rotary club has done much to provide excellent amenities such as barbeques, seats and tables, a war memorial, and a bridge.
	www.wcl.govt.nz /wellington/tawa.html (1469 words)

	Creation myths
		A giant ceiba tree anchors the heavens through to the underworld; human rulers are embodiments of this tree, living links between the supernatural and natural worlds.
		A great tree reached through time and space; it was attacked by a wicked serpent, but under its roots was the fountain of wisdom.
		There was a special tree (the tree of knowledge of good and evil), and also a wicked serpent.
	www.mukto-mona.com /science/skybreak/creation_myths.htm (1218 words)

	Plant and Wildlife
		The Tawa is another forest tree sought after for building.
		The Rata is another large forest tree with intense red flowers similar to the Pohutukawa.
		It is a vine that enables you to use to swing from a tree to another tree or the ground.
	members.tripod.com /wuzzels/flora-fauna-wildlife.html (917 words)

	www.woodbook.co.uk - T - Z
		Tree Data: Commonly 90 to 100 ft in height and 16 to 24 in.
		Tree of 10 to 20 meters of height,found in Southeastern the Amazon region and.
		Tree Data: The Tawa tree is a medium to tall forest tree reaching a height of 25 metres and a trunk diameter of up to 1 metre developing buttress roots as it matures.
	www.woodbook.co.uk /t-z (2333 words)

	News - Kereru sculpture welcomed to Tawa
		The Kereru sculpture is magnificent its an identifiable focus for Tawa and its the finishing touch for the Tawa Village project, says Cr Armstrong, one of Tawas ward councillors.
		Tawa residents led by the Tawa Community Board and members of the Tawa Village Project Committee have worked long and hard for these improvements.
		The Kereru sculpture, which is 10 metres in height and has a wingspan of 9 metres, consists of a bronze shaft with a descending spiral pattern and on top of this, a pair of aluminium wings shaped to form wings, feathers and leaves.
	www.wellington.govt.nz /news/display-item.php?id=74 (393 words)

	[No title]
		For swings the ends of two withes of buffalo hide were secured to four trees or posts which formed the corners of a parallelogram.
		The Ponka made them of the bark of a tree, called tawa[,]a^{n}he, which is found on the old Ponka reservation in Dakota.
		The Omaha do not find the tree on their land, so they make the fruit baskets of other kinds of bark.
	www.gutenberg.lib.md.us /1/9/9/1/19913/19913.txt (8250 words)

	AstronomyNZ - Haratua (Twelfth Month)
		Kahikitea trees were often found in very large, dense stands while miro, maire were scattered through the forest.
		A tree in which such snares are set is called a rakau tahei, taumatua or toka a manu When feeding on the berries of the kohe or miro they put on a lot of weight.
		Mutu, tumu and pewa snares are perch snares and were set in any tree such as the Miro that has foliage and fruits at the end of the branch.
	www.astronomynz.org.nz /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=41 (873 words)

	Forest and Bird - Firth Reserve
		The vegetation in the reserve consists of tawa forest with kohekohe, rewarewa and pukatea.
		Gullies are dominated by pukatea and kohekohe, while ridges and hillslopes are characterised by tawa, rewarewa, tree fern (ponga, mamaku and wheki) and mahoe.
		On the western side of the fenceline there is a group of tawa, kahikatea, rewarewa and miro sitting among grazed pasture.
	www.forestandbird.org.nz /enjoy_nature/Reserves/firth/firth.asp (615 words)

	Tiritiri Matangi Island - Trees
		Between 1984 and 1994, 250,000 - 300,000 trees were planted by volunteers.
		The trees planted were, in most cases, raised on Tiritiri Matangi from seeds collected on the island or nearby so as to maintain genetic purity.
		The wattle trees in Wattle Valley were encouraged as they provide shade for seedlings and are also an excellent source of food in winter for such species as the honeyeaters.
	www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz /Trees.htm (157 words)

	Kereru Discovery Project - List page
		The leaves of this tree are a kererū favourite.
		Kererū rely on this tree when other species fail to fruit.
		The leaves of this fast-growing tree are rich in nutrients.
	www.kererudiscovery.org.nz /GardeningGuide.html (123 words)

	Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves - Press
		The tawa is an important food source for the increasing population of kereru (native wood pigeon).
		A former principal of Tawa College, who was nominated for his current role with the Tawa Historical Society, commented that the chief officer of fellow nominees the Tawa Volunteer Fire Brigade had been a pupil of his back in the 60s.
		A number of trees nearby were also damaged “for the sheer fun of it” including a Tawa tree that appeared to be a lookout post, made by nailing wooden steps that climbed eight metres up to the top of the tree.
	www.tawabush.wellington.net.nz /press.html (6413 words)

	//2: Michael Tawa - Siting the body
		The body is that breathed-upon and breathing: raised in being brought to resonance, to in-spired speech.
		The body is tree, trunk, wooden spine: druidic oak.
		Sydney, July 1995 Michael Tawa is an architect and senior lecturer in architecture at the School of Architecture, University of NSW, where he teaches design theory, architectural design and technology.
	www.va.com.au /parallel/x2/journal/michael_tawa/siting.html (1836 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Long White Cloud, by William Pember Reeves
		The trees, as is usually the case with those the wood of which is hard, grow slowly.
		Tree ferns begin to appear and grow taller and taller as the coach descends towards the sea, where in the evening the long journey ends.
		The roots gave way, and Rona with her calabash and her tree are placed in the front of the moon for ever, an awful warning to all who are tempted to mock at divinities in their haste.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/2/4/1/12411/12411-h/12411-h.htm (21017 words)

	Tales from the Smokehouse
		So Tawa divided himself and there came Muiyinwuh, God of All Life Germs; Spider Woman also divide herself so that there was Huzruiwuhti, Woman of the Hard Substances, the Goddess of all hard ornaments of wealth such as coral, turquoise, silver and shell.
		Then Tawa took down his burnished shield from the turquoise wall of the kiva and swiftly mounted his glorious was to the Above.
		Her eyes now sought the Above where Tawa was descending toward his western kiva in all the glory of red and gold.
	groups.msn.com /TalesFromtheSmokehouse/hopi.msnw?pgmarket=en-us (1628 words)

	Spider Woman
		The Hopi religious leader clipped the news articles out of the national newspapers and sent them to the UDOT Director to show them what Spider Woman was doing to them for destroying her sacred monument.
		Many strange thoughts formed in Tawa's mind -- beautiful forms of birds to float in the above, of beasts to move upon the earth, and fish to swim in the waters.
		It is not good that they lay still and quiet, Tawa said.andnbsp; Each thing that has a form must have a spirit.
	talkingtree.org /voices/spider_woman.htm (641 words)

	Lake Waikaremoana area short walks: East Coast Hawke's Bay tracks and walks
		One highlight of this walk is the delicate willow-like yellow green foliage of the tawa tree.
		Another spectacular sight is the number of northern rata of various ages growing on their host trees.
		It is around 1,000 years since it began life as a germinating seed high in the forks of a tree that itself was probably 400-500 years old.
	www.doc.govt.nz /templates/trackandwalk.aspx?id=36124 (1089 words)

	Friars' Gardens of New Zealand Open to Visit
		The conservatory opens to decking encircled by a brick planter featuring camellias, azaleas, roses, lavenders, an ancient lemon tree, and a small pond and fountain.
		Pathways lead to the upper garden where the focal point is a cedar summerhouse, with views over Tawa.
		Along with the camellias and azaleas, Noeline’s rhododendrons and blossom trees predominate in spring, underplanted with hostas.
	www.friarsgardens.co.nz /garden.php?id=52 (270 words)

	Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1909. [electronic resource]
		The trunk of the tree being concealed from view by a dense growth of climbing plants, the spears were thrust up through this growth, and were so hidden from view.
		When about to make a bird-spear the Natives always selected a tree that stood well within the forest, and not one growing on its outskirts, as the latter are more difficult to split, and the timber not so easy to work—a fact known to all bushmen.
		The tree had to be felled with stone axes and fire, and this long 30 ft. of lance must be as straight as an arrow and about 1 in.
	rsnz.natlib.govt.nz /volume/rsnz_42/rsnz_42_00_004800.html (2464 words)

	XVIII Forest Lore and Woodcraft \| NZETC
		Thus, when the Maori wished to fell a tree wherefrom to fashion a canoe or house timbers, for two reasons he was compelled to perform a placatory rite ere he could slay one of the offspring of Tane.
		He saw in the majestic trees living creatures of an elder branch of the great family; he felt the strange, old-world influences that spring from a belief in animatism; he heard the voices of unseen beings in the rustling of branches, in whispering winds, in the sound of rushing waters.
		These parrots nest in the same tree year after year, and, when the young are taken for food purposes, it is highly necessary that the ashes of the fire at which they are cooked be taken to the tree and cast into the nest.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-Bes02Maor-t1-body-d10.html (15484 words)

	Flowergirl's Recipes
		Reason could be the tree may be a old tree and the has lost the nourishment of producing healthy fruits.
		Since our tree is a young tree and this being only the third season there was more bearings in the tree.
		I used to climb trees to pluck mangoes so that it doesn't fall down and get wounded which would not ripe well.
	www.flowergirlrecipe.blogspot.com (1131 words)

	AstronomyNZ - Hui-tanguru (Ninth Month)
		The Karkariki (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae, red-crowned parakeet and C. auriceps, yellow-crowned parakeet) are birds which feed in the canopy trees feeding on seeds, berries, flowers, leaves and insects.
		In lowland forests, the Tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa) is a dominant canopy tree.
		At low tide the breathing roots are submerged often along with the trunks and lower branches of the trees.
	www.astronomynz.org.nz /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=38 (597 words)

	The New Zealand Site
		The wholesale felling of trees that take three or four hundred years to grow is inevitably a boom and bust industry and characteristic of much of our colonial exploitation of New Zealand's resources.
		Where old beech trees had fallen over, erosion was carving great slips out of the exposed pumice under their upended roots.
		The river grew from an ankle-deep babbling brook to a broad, powerful flow, and the forest turned from beech to soaring podocarps with an understory of tawa and tree ferns.
	thenewzealandsite.com /article/WhirinakiForest (1535 words)

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