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Arbor Day celebrations drew out a Greytown family on Saturday whose own branches spread across two leafy landmarks in the town.
Allan and Ian Farley not only trace their family roots back to Harold and Evelyn Farley _ on whose 1800s farm grew the massive Farley's Oak in West St _ but the brothers also took a filial bow on behalf of Samuel Oates.
It was from Samuel's 1850s wheelbarrow journey over the Rimutakas that the gum tree sprang which towers in the grounds of St Luke's Church in Main St.
Greytown is acknowledged as the first New Zealand centre to celebrate Arbor Day after residents held a tree planting in the town on July 3, 1890.
It is a day upon which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees and was originally held in Nebraska City on April 10, 1872. About a million trees were reportedly planted on that single day.
The Greytown event ran over Friday and Saturday and featured a historic display at the Greytown Town Hall, plantings at Papwai Marae, Kuranui College, North Creek, and Soldiers Memorial Park, and a historic vehicle parade and a dinner.
A perennial participant in the Saturday parade, which comprised rural and road vehicles and a horse-drawn carriage, was a 1915 Trumbull Roadster owned by the Farley patriarch, Jim Farley.
Mr Farley said the Trumbull, unique in New Zealand, had flashed her black and burgundy glory in Greytown parades since 1919.
Mighty trees in Greytown include the giant kahikatea at Kahikatea Gardens, reputed to be 900 years old, the St Luke's Gum and Farley's Oak, at Collier's Reserve, and totara at Stella Bull Park.