1873. `Catalogue of Vienna Exhibition':
"Pohutukawa for knees, ribs, and bent-pieces, invaluable to ship-builder. It surpasses English oak. Confined to Province of Auckland."
1875. T. Laslett, `Timber and Timber Trees,' p. 310:
"The pohutukawa-tree (<i>Metrosideros tomentosa</i>) requires an exposed situation . . . is crooked, misshapen. . . . The natives speak of it (the timber) as very durable."
1886. J. A. Fronde, `Oceana,' p. 308:
"Low down on the shore the graceful native Pokutukawa [sic] was left undisturbed, the finest of the Rata tribe—at a distance like an ilex, only larger than any ilex I ever saw, the branches twisted into the most fantastic shapes, stretching out till their weight bears them to the ground or to the water. Pokutukawa, in Maori language, means `dipped in the sea-spray.' In spring and summer it bears a brilliant crimson flower."
<hw>Pointers</hw>, <i>n</i>. two of the bullocks in a team. See quotation.
1872. C. H. Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 36:
"Twelve bullocks is the usual number in a team, the two polers and the leaders being steady old stagers; the pair next to the pole are called the `pointers,' and are also required to be pretty steady, the remainder being called the `body bullocks,' and it is not necessary to be so particular about their being thoroughly broken in."
<hw>Poison-berry Tree</hw>, <i>n</i>. <i>Pittosporum phillyroides</i>, De C., <i>N.O. Pittosporeae</i>.