KAURI GUM FIELDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 7 May 1914, Page 5

KAURI GUM FIELDS.

A NEW SCHEME OP WORKING.

BY TELEGHAPH— PftESS ASSOCIATION,

AUCKLAND, May 6 «,f tT •dePartu. re l connection with the kauri gum industry, which iti« anticipated, will result; kT invportant St°P^\ nte- in the near S?e iXte ln^.^ted in the North or Auckland. This is the application of dredging .to the winning of t?e fn^n;^ JT** in ljutntiS in many of the swamps in the northcapital of £30,000 has recently been formed for the purpose of working the first gum dredge, which will "start operations on a swamp at Awanui HrS w «OI?paAI P^chased a gold dredge m Otago. and to this alterations necessary'to adapt it to mmdredffin K are being made. The dredge will shortly be shipped to the north? and it is expected that operations will be commenced some time during the present year. There are many thousands of acres ot swamp m the gum-bearing areas of tiie north., and it js anticinated that the dredge about to be placed in commission will he the forerunner of many .others The. swamps, after being dredged will be drained, and will then ; be available for. cultivation. . The land will make excellent dairying country.