KAURI GUM TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 62, 14 March 1930, Page 4

KAURI GUM TRADE.

BOARD'S MONTHLY REPORT,

At the monthly meeting of the Kauri Gum Control Board Alr.,Ai. H. Wynyard presided. Six applications for kauri gum buyers' licenses were considered, four being granted, one refused, and one deferred for further consideration. Information wa.3 received that the number of producers working on several gumtields has materially increased during the past few months as a result of the bettor prices paid and the firmer demand existing. A petition from 25 producers requesting the opening of tiie Black Swamp at I\langawai for general digging was forwarded to the Auckland Land Board.

It was reported that a substantial quantity of chip , gradings produced at the board's cleaning works at Penrose had been sold during the month. The indications were that a ready market awaited these clean chip gradiugs. Keporte received from abroad dealing with the nee of the board's clean chip gradings in the nitro-cellulose lacquer and varnish industries, and samples of lacquers, lacquer texture finishes and varnishes made from the chips, were submitted. The information received was of a very encouraging nature as to the use of ■clean chip gum in lacquer manufacture and opens possibilities of a valuable ■market being found for the lower gradings of kauri gum, which constitute the bulk of the remaining supplies, and which can be produced in large quantities.