"The ake . . . and towai (<i>Leiospermum racemosum</i>) are almost equal, in point of colour, to rosewood."
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand,' p. 132:
"Towhai, Kamahi. A large tree; trunk two to four feet in diameter, and fifty feet high. Wood close-grained and heavy, but rather brittle. . . . The bark is largely used for tanning. The extract of bark is chemically allied to the gum kino of commerce, their value being about equal."
<hw>Township</hw>, <i>n</i>. a village, a possible future town. In the United States, the word has a definite meaning—a district, subordinate to a county, the inhabitants having power to regulate their local affairs; in Australia, the word has no such definite meaning. It may be large or small, and sometimes consists of little more than the post-office, the public-house, and the general store or shop.
1802. D. Collins, `Account of New South Wales,' vol. ii. p. 7:
"The timber of a hundred and twenty acres was cut down . . . a small township marked out, and a few huts built."
1861. Mrs. Meredith, `Over the Straits,' vol. ii. p. 40:
"It used to seem to me a strange colonial anomaly to call a very small village a `township,' and a much larger one a `town.' But the former is the term applied to the lands reserved in various places for future towns."
1873. J. B. Stephens, `Black Gin,' p. 79:
"There's a certain township and also a town,—
(For, to ears colonial, I need not state
That the two do not always homologate)."