‘The trunk of an unfelled giant rata’. For many years these trunks were a prominent landscape feature, contributing significantly to the spread of bush fires. This c. 1907 photo is probably of the rata trunk reputed to be the district's largest. It appears on the Department of Lands & Survey One Inch to One Mile Map Series, 1944–64 (Grid ref. N119 753490, 2nd edn, May 1957). William Swadling and his daughter Doris mounted, Fred Swadling standing