KAURI GUM CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 6

KAURI GUM CONTROL.

From a gumdigger's point of view it * not very difficult to see that practically *D your correspondents who have been "alatiHf the Kauri Gum Control Board of lata il* anything but gumdiggers and know littto * nothing about that occupation. This ia from what they have written. Let it be said that they all place the averag# Jib®" gence of the gumdigger on too low a p" if they for one moment think he cannot *• the weakness of their epistles. I should to ask your writers who have been tonctoi the board up a few questions about their ow* writings. They are: (a) Do any of the* seriously think it at all likely that the GoieM* ment would give its support on the eve of M election to the Kauri Gum Control Board a it were true that the board went to the (■ by £24,000 in the first year of its operatic®? (b) where did the Kauri Gum Control Boa» obtain the £24.000 from to lose; (c) how dM all the people who knew of the board's lot# find out that it went £24.000 to the laijj its first year before the Kauri Gum Board had issued its balance-sheet; (d) in t* event of the board issuing a balance-shee which shows a profit over working expenses will any of the board's critics apologise for their statements; (el if the board is s °ch * curse to the gumdiggers as your correspo®®" ents try to make out, how is it that the gets any business at all. and why is it tfj*» its business is increasing by leaps and bounds from month to month? n GUMDIGGER SUPPORTER OF THE BOAKU-