corruption for Tea-tree (q.v.), from the fancy that it is Maori, or aboriginalAustralian. On the railway line, between Dunedin andInvercargill, there is a station called « Titri,» evidently the surveyor's joke.
1895. `Otago Witness,' Dec. 19, p. 23, col. 3:
«Our way lay across two or three cultivations into a grove ofhandsome titri. Traversing this we came to a broad, butshallow and stony creek, and then more titri, merging intolight bush.»