Fungus
A lucrative sideline engaged in by the early settlers was that of fungusselling. School holidays were fully occupied by their children in searching among the logs’ ami stumps for the largest bunches. Armed with sugar sacks and sharp knives, they roamed the clearings from early morning until dark. The fungus often had to be packed on horses for conveyance to the bush home, where it was dried on iron roofs of the outhouses, and very often covered even the roof of the home itself. The most prolific logs were the tawa and the mahoe. When thoroughly dry the fungus was sold to the nearest Chinese storekeeper, at about threepence a pound, for shipment to China. What use it was put to when it reached its destination is still a mystery.— AJAll. /(Fciidiiq;).
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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133Fungus Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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