There's such a long story relating to that particular tree, so I won't bore you and everyone else with it but I used to work at that school in the 90's, suffice to say I believe but can't prove that the 5 major raintrees (there are 12 all up) in the grounds were planted by one of the first Mayors of Townsville around 1890-1900, the seeds for
Albizia(was
Samanea)
saman came into Qld Brisbane in 1879, the school moved to that site in 58' so the trees would have been fairly significant specimens then, local contractors that have been in Town for 70yrs have told me about diggin out the stumps of two of the trees taking 2days and 3 backhoes!
That one over the tuckshop has evidence when you climb up into the crown of strom damage from Cyclone Althea in 71, none of the shots I have show much but you can see that the entire upper canopy is epicormic from tearouts pretty cool.
Makes you marvel at what some of our much older trees must have lived through and what they've seen change around them..
SF