AUSTRIANS AND THE GUM INDUSTRY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 March 1916, Page 2

AUSTRIANS AND THE GUM INDUSTRY

Sm Robert Stout, in an interview^ Wei mgton on his trip to North Auckland -peaking of the Austrians in the North and the Kauri Gum Industry, said--Kaun g Um has gone up i n price. One genteman told me he thought it most unfair that Austrians shouhfbe ahS to take advantage of the increased value and that men who had K one to the front should have the gumfields exploited £ heiri^ 6nCe- He thought i lands should be reserved for returned soldiers. is taken there is norrHoh^Td mU th riCe A h? g °ne UP 25 Per ceAt, o* EC 0—" « t more «J 7h . m and P^vent any S wise S k6n- X think a wo^