THE GUM-DIGGING INDUSTRY.
A SEVERE CONDEMNATION. Press Association. ' AUCKLAND, Feb. 26. The gum-digging industry was one of tho topics discussed at the session of the Te Auto Association to-day. The Rev. H. Hawkins said lie had no sympathy for the industry ; it had been the curse in the form of disease, of the Maoris of the North. It had been found by medical men that about 50 per cent of the Mjioris of the North had tuberculosis. The diggers resided in wretched houses, and they worked most of tho time in the wet.
Other speakers endorsed Mr. Hawkins’ remarks, and the Rev. G. Maunsell added that the flax industry was akin to that of gumdigging. He had seen Maori girls working in tho flax fields, and standing in water up to the waist the whole day.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2126, 27 February 1908, Page 2
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