ROTORUA BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL REGISTER OF NOTABLE, HISTORIC AND COMMEMORATIVE TREES

As at: 3 November, 2020.

COMMON NAME BOTANICAL YEAR DONOR DEDICATION LOCATION NAME PLANTED

Douglas fir Pseudotsuga 1885 The Railways The largest menziesii Department Survey Douglas firs along parties whilst they the Pukuatua Street camped on the boundary and up to Pukuatua Street the Ryder site of the School Memorial Gates, for their surveying and the one from 1881-1885 of Douglas fir directly the former railway opposite A Block corridor for the on the corner of the railway line into main drive. the Rotorua CBD (the line was opened in 1894). Pohutukawa Metrosideros excelsa 2002 Planted by the Rt. Inside the Ryder Hon. Helen Clark, Memorial Gates on O.N.Z., Prime the right-hand side Minister. (when driving into Pukuatua Street) adjacent to the staff car park. Kahikatea Dacrycarpus ? Mr. Colin Tetley, The five trees in a dacrydiodes Property Manager. row along the Pukuatua Street boundary of the staff car park. Totara Podocarpus totara ? The late Mr. Tom The first tree inside Singleton, former of the Ryder Maintenance Memorial Gates on Department staff the left-hand side member. (when driving into Pukuatua Street). Golden Totara Popcarpus totara ? Mr. & Mrs. The second tree “Aureal” Malcolm and down from the Hillary Harison, a Ryder Memorial former Deputy Gates after the Principal. Singleton tree on the main drive. English Oak Quercus robur Arbor Days, 1939 The New Zealand The “Coronation The two vast Oaks and 1940 Government Oaks”. Planted in the garden area separately to between the main commemorate the drive and the staff coronation of Their car park. Majesties King- Emperor George VI and his Queen- Empress Consort Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The acorns for these two trees were gathered from Windsor Great Park outside Windsor Castle. Golden Totara Podocarpus totara 1994 The members of Mr. Geoff The third tree down “Aureal” Mr. Hocking’s Hocking, former from the Ryder former House teacher Memorial Gates Group, Raleigh 7. after the Harison’s tree on the main drive. Kauri Agathis australis 2000 Mr. A.C. Grinter Called “Arapeta”, The fifth tree down the Maori from the Ryder equivalent of Memorial Gates Albert being his after the Harison’s first name. tree on the main drive. Kauri Agathis australis ? Mrs. Sue The sixth tree down Waterous, former from the Ryder teacher. Memorial Gates on the main drive after “Arapeta” by the 1885 Douglas fir. Weeping Totara Podocarpus totara 12 September, The School. It was Mr. H. Tai On the corner of the 1944. planted by Mrs. Mitchell, C.M.G., main drive on the Janet Fraser, wife J.P. right-hand side of Prime Minister (next to the the Rt. Hon. Peter western-end of the Fraser. small gymnasium) when driving into Pukuatua Street. Kauri Agathis australis 2008 Mr. A.C. Grinter Called “Koanga” to Next to the mark the birth of Harwood Library. his second daughter and youngest child, Miss Lucy Grinter, Copper or European Fagus sylvatica 1998 Planted by the Rt. Next to “Koanga”. Beech Hon. Dame Jenny Shipley, D.C.N.Z.M, Prime Minister. Totara Podocarps totara Early 2000s Mr. R.J. Cyca The two trees in front of the Golf Driving Range. Golden Totara Popcarpus totara 1998 Bradford Leonard, The first tree on the “Aureal” Head Prefect, west-facing end of 1997. the sealed playing courts facing Old Taupo Road. Kauri Agathis australis 2000 A 2000 Family Next to the Tree. Leonard tree. Kauri Agathis australis 2015 The Family of Mr. T. O’Regan, Old In the courtyard T. O’Regan. Boy (his ashes are between Te Whare buried beneath the o Raukura and the tree). Food Technology Centre (facing Old Taupo Road). Golden elm Ulmus glabra ? Mr. D. Lowrie, In between the “Lutescens” Groundsman and back of A Block Old Boy. and the Food Technology Centre. Rimu Dacrydium 1934 Planted by Mr. H. In the courtyard cupressinum Tai Mitchell, between A, S and T C.M.G., J.P. Blocks. There were originally five of them, but two were removed when S Block was built in 1953. Gingko Gingko bibola 2017 The School. To mark the 20th By the putting Anniversary of the green adjacent to School’s association with the student car Sheba High School park. in Japan. Pohutukawa Metrosideros excelsa 2014 Mrs. D.M. Moore, The first tree in a former teacher and line of six along the Old Girl, on her small driveway retirement after 48 down to the rear of years’ teaching Hahauterangi, Tai service (1966- Mitchell Boarding 2014) at RBHS. Hostel . Gingko Gingko bibola 2000 A 2000 Family In the T (rear side), Tree by the Chemis B and C Blocks (?) Family. quart yard. Kahikatea Dacrycarpus ? Planted by the Rt. In between the dacrydiodes Hon. J.B. Bolger, Coastal Redwood O.N.Z., Prime and Old Taupo Minister. Road. Holm or Evergreen Quercus ilex Arbor Day, 1933. In front of the Oak entrance to the Millennium Centre. Tulip Liriodendron Arbor Day, 1933 The eight House The House Trees Commencing from tulipifera and 2015 Captains. (in their original the Millennium order of: Raleigh, Centre next to the Trafalgar, Nelson, Holm oak and up Crecy, Frobisher, the south drive to Blenheim, Drake the corner nearest and Agincourt). to C Block. The Raleigh and Trafalgar House Trees were re- dedicated on the corner on 26 June, 1990, by Heke Steele, the Raleigh House Captain in 1933, and Mr. George Bertram for his late sister Betty, the Trafalgar House Captain in 1933. The Principal, Mr. G.R. Cramond, Raleigh House Master, Mr. S.G. Harrison, and P. Hughes, Raleigh House Captain were also in attendance. A new Tulip was planted next to the first surviving one, in 2015, to replace another one of the 1933 originals. Giant Sequoia or Sequoiadendron Arbor Day, 1933. Mr. R.B. Nesbitt, Mr. W. Steele, Next to the south Californian Big Tree giganteum J.P., first Chairman Foundation gate on the right- “Wellingtonia” of the Rotorua Rotorua High hand side (when High School Board School Governor driving out of the of Governors. and Chairman of School to Pererika the Grounds Sub- Street). There was a Committee, 1926- duplicate 1933. Wellingtonia on the opposite side, but it died in the early 1980s. Chinese Poplar Populus yunnanensis Arbour Day, 1935. In the middle of the terrace between the upper and lower rugby fields along from the Millennium Centre. This is the largest and grandest of its species in New Zealand. Coastal Redwood Sequoia Arbor Day, 1935. The School. It was At the end of sempervirens planted by Mr. terrace between the A.R. Ryder, upper and lower Principal, 1927- rugby fields and 1931, during his directly along from first return visit to the Millennium the School after Centre. leaving in 1931. Gingko Gingko bibola 2000 A 2000 Family P.W. Hoyle, former The second tree in Tree by the Hoyle teacher and Old the line of six on Family Boy. the northern-side of the driveway down to the rear of Hahauterangi, Tai Mitchell Boarding Hostel. Kahikatea Dacrycarpus ? The McGrath The three trees next dacrydiodes brothers: Thomas, to the Hoyle Peter and David, Memorial. Old Boys. Maple Acer ? Mr. D. Lowrie, At the end of the Groundsman and McGrath brothers’ Old Boy. trees. English Oak Quercus robur Arbor Day, 1933. The Mayor of The trees lining Rotorua and both sides of the members of the drive up to the Rotorua Borough south gate from Council. Pererika Street and along Pererika Street up to the corner of Old Taupo Road (they are all on the Rotorua Town Belt Reserve). One of them was replaced in the early 2000s. Pittosporums and Pittosporum 1985 Mr. R.J. Cyca In between the other evergreen eugenioides south drive and the natives. “Lemonwood” or board walk “Tarata” opposite the Tulip trees.