CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 12

CO NDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Black Watch," in writing on the of individuals to make good on h« says that the first essen- , t■•-.; is willingness to work and work ; hard. A party who recently undertook j th* adventure were satisfied to give I '^!^ ;i >g o\\\y a three hours' trial, while j others who arrived at the same time, I -on. •of them old men, battled and made I iTonrf. Since it is no longer necessary to [scraps the gum'and sort it, writes this ! correspondent, gumdigging as an art I and science ranks with navvying. That. [ T suppose, is why the least advanced of Europeans have been most successful at ; it. It explains, too, why the newcomer jof last month, if his back be strong, j may trudge home with a full load side !by side with an "expert" of endless years carrying an empty pikau. Those who have never been on the fields need but imagine themselves sent to dig a field of self-sown potatoes from which the shaws have long withered and disappeared. Either they will probe around to find where the potatoes are or they will dig forward in a face. The •first, in gumfield parlance, is spearing; the second, paddocking. So, of course. Mr. Sheed, the local secretary of the I union, may set up for an authority. And every one else."