Industrious Kiwis
Gum diggers spearing for Kauri gum
Northwood Brothers, Gum diggers spearing for Kauri gum, ca 1910, Dry plate glass negative, Northwood Collection, Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference: 1/1-009780-G
Gum diggers spearing for Kauri gum
The Kauri gum industry was one of New Zealand’s largest export industries from 1870 to 1920 and encouraged the influx of gum diggers to Auckland and Northland areas. This photograph taken by the Northwood Bros shows gum diggers using the spear and hook method of searching for gum in a swamp somewhere in the Northland Region in about 1910.
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