KAURI GUM INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21086, 21 January 1932, Page 7

KAURI GUM INDUSTRY.

ASSISTING THE PRODUCERS. SUCCESS IN RESEARCH WORK;. Arrangements for the disbursement of £650 granted by the Government and the Unemployment Board for assisting gum producers in necessitous circumstances were confirmed at the monthly meeting of the Kauri Gum Control Board. The arrangement provides • that "■ small quantities of gum are purchased'outright, or small advances,, npt limited to 50 per cent, of value, ars made against gum placed in the "hands of the board for sale and for which a buyer cannot at present be found. A return from the Customs Department showed the export of gum for, November to be as follows: — Destination. Tonnage F. 0.8. Tons. Vame. United Kingdom . . IC7 Australia . . 1 . . 5 J!B France .. .. <_>. Sweden 7 H 2^ U.S.A. via hast Coast 2 <0 U.S.A. via West Coast .7 3J7 Totals . . - . -OS £0,366 Three applications from the Lands Department for upliftmcnt of reservation over areas in gum reserves were dealt, with. One application was objected to as file area still contained gum in pay- ' able quantities. Another application was held over for_ further consideration, . and in the remaining ease (lie board offered no objection to (lie release from reservation of the portion containing no payable gum, but objected to upliftmcnt , over the balance of the area. Correspondence was received from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Rcsoiirch indicating that .considerable., success had been attained in research work witb kauri pun). Samples of different classes of chip grading were for- - warded to (lie department for treatment., and report.