The romance of lucky finds still obtains on the gumfields, though the bulk of the kauri gum now coming to market consist of “chips” left behind in swamp and other basins worked over in former years, so far as the “big gum” is concerned. Within the last three or four months (writes a travelling correspondent of the New Zealand Herald), one digger struck particularly good fortune near Kaitaia. He had bought a certain area of land for £6OO, and within the first three weeks of his ownership, while turning over the ground for the sake of the gum, he happened upon three holes from which he extracted black gum of the old-time description which realised about £BOO, thus repaying him the cost of the property, and leaving a- substantial balance. It is also stated that he is still working upon highly remunera* tive of gum.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 11
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