Storm spells end for Noble Lady (Nelson Mail Thursday 01 May, 2014). Despite the claim in the article, there are other larger known trees in the country (NZNTT, 2014)

Former notes;
There are two very large matai trees at this location with many other juvenile trees in the vicinity. The native cover in the Cable Bay area was originally burnt off by Maori in the mid 1800's in an effort to attract European settlers to purchase the land for farming. These trees lie in pockets of bush that survived these burnoffs. The second tree is 100m to the north (see tree NNR/0779).
In July 2008 this tree, it's Māori name meaning 'Noble Lady, developed several spiral cracks down the stem as a result of strong easterly winds gusting at 160kph. The upper canopy shows many signs of earlier wind damage (Cadwallader Dec 2010).

With the Lake Ianthe matai in Westland now gone, these two trees could be largest surviving trees in the country although there is a report of a very large tree at 225 cm dbh (1997) located in the Boundary Stream Reserve, Hawkes Bay (Cadwallader/Smillie, Feb 2011)