WORKING THE GUM FIELDS OF NEW CALEDONIA.
Auckland, This day
Mr Opperiheimcr, of Auckland, has ranged for working the gum fields of Noav Caledonia. He has a concession to dig and export, gum for ten years, and has made a contract with the Messageries Maritime Company to convoy gum from Ncav Caledonia to London 'for 00 francs per ton. Mr Oppcnhoimer is to havo 350 convicts employed in dig-ring and seventy natives. Ho intends to send down from 100 to 100 experienced gum diggers from Auckland.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3770, 15 August 1883, Page 3
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