tallow wood การใช้
- Inside the main entrance a staircase led upstairs to the large hall space containing a specially treated dance floor of tallow wood with a platform, cloak rooms, ticket box and fire escape stairs.
- The base of the flying fox was a large tallow wood tree, which is still extant, near the Mains Road toilet facilities, about 1.6 kilometres down the road from the lodge.
- A row of mature kauri trees lines the southern boundary of the land and tallow wood, crows ash, satinay and yellow pine trees are found in a group to the right of the site behind the tennis court.
- The house was built of local timbers-tallow wood ( eucalyptus microcorys ) for floor bearers, white beech ( Gmelina leichhardtii ) for floors, walls, and ceilings and red cedar ( Toona australis ) for joinery-thought to have been felled on the property or acquired from nearby, and pit-sawn and handcrafted to make boards.