REX Podcast • 25 April 2025

Anthea Dalton - How WWl led to a National Arboretum

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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Anthea Dalton, Operation Team Leader at Eastwood Hill Arboretum in Gisborne, about the story of William Douglas Cook; a farm owner whose experience convalescing after fighting in Egypt, Gallipoli and France during the First World War led to him establishing what is now New Zealand's National Arboretum, containing the largest collection of Northern Hemisphere trees south of the equator.

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