An idea of the difficulties that have to be faced by men who go into the back blocks for mining purposes, may be gathered from the folio wing extract from the report of the manager of the Kapowai Company:—"We were just get- ! ting over the effects of the fire, and now I the country is flooded. X six-feet j kauri log disputed my right to the house I was living iii the other day. The bushmen let go their dam. and there ■was three feet of water in my house. A large log burst in the door and smashed the chimney. I have now re--iftoyed the house to a safer place."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1908, Page 2
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