The Kauri Gumdiggers from the glory days of the 1880s/1890s by Alfred Reed

An excellent and well-written history updated, Gordon Ell of Bush Press, 192 pages with index. From Northland, Coromandel, Auckland, Waikato... “The Story of Kauri Gum, recalls the pioneer days in Northland and Auckland. Here, men and women dug for the "fossil" gum of the giant kauri trees which once clothed the north. reed's story of kauri gum includes his own experiences, and those of his father, on the gumfields in the 1880s and 1890s.”

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