KAURI GUM INDUSTAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 167, 16 July 1924, Page 6

KAURI GUM INDUSTAY.

GOVERNMENT _«^| (By Tclesraph.-P_ r]iamentar _ _■ WELLIN GTOV j Lack of interest on Government in the kauri _nm - ! 3 was remarked upon in the w 8* by Mr. A. J. Murdoch f__g__B_ pointed out that the indusW'• i worth while. Sinee -it existence 377,000 tons of _» £*3 at over twenty millions hidi__* tamed in the North. Ttf___ggj ment had been trying to rnn tif;J_& per medium of the Commit 5 ' Crown Lands, but he shoalo?* 0 altogether, and there should beto-' a superintendent with industry. His duties would t, s that licenses were promptly __s__ ! and that when gum lands Tra2"s» : the sections did not get into fill of one man, or that they were tnJK in as at present. There was no of inspection, and some months IJOI was a ring operating tb-'feSlf prices. The Department cam. I* 1 with £5000 to be distributed Z? the diggers to save them from J? starvation, but it was not distriW |as it should have been, and peoriT [had considerable accumulations et lof their lots to the detriment 0 f J | needy ones. The industry leqnjJ" jvestigating thoroughly, and doiS I handled in a businesslike manner