GUMDIGGERS AND KAURI BUSH.
A correspondent signing "Far North," and writing from that district, says:—" X see in your answer to correspondents a few weeks ago that the Government would not allow gumdiggors in Government bashes digging for gum, as they act fire to the buehea and destroy quantities of valuable timber. In my travels between Ahipara and Whangape 1 there saw a great many diggers, and they were firing every patch of fern and rushes they could light. There are very large tracts of kauri bush between Ahipara and Whangape, and if they onoe caught fire some thousands of pounds' worth of valuable timber would be destroyed. As the fine weather hae now set in we may expect to hear of some thousands of pounds , worth of kauri being destroyed by these said diggers. Now, I think the* chairman of the Waste Lands Board should issue an order to all owners of pastoral leases (leased from the Government) that if they do not stop the digging the Government will take away the pastoral lease, and if the diggera will not clear out wheu ordered that the leaseholder shall prosecute. I think if one or two were brought before the B.M. it would be a caution to the remainder."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7824, 18 December 1886, Page 5
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209GUMDIGGERS AND KAURI BUSH. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7824, 18 December 1886, Page 5
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