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Show Digging Kauri Gum. Kauri gum, round underground In ' New Zealand, nnd dug to tho amount or a million and a hnlf yearly. Is used Cllieiiy IUr luillliuiu livinauco uiiu - nlshes, nnd most or It .is exported to America. Tho industry or digging It Ik unllko any other In the world. A knurl rorcst is a beautiful sight, but kauri gum country Is treeless, barren bar-ren and dcsolnte, even, and swnmpj very oiten, with singularly heavy, cloggy soil, out or which the gum formed on kauri pines or ancient and long-vanished forests Is dug or speared. spear-ed. There nro wholo stretches of this treeless kauri country, .with nothing but n little scrub ferp growing on It 't Is very rough for riding about (the gimflolds aro too extensivo to be seen except riding) and a native horso should bo ridden nccustomed to going without putting Its foot down any of tho numerous holes, Somo of the gum diggers about 3,000 In all-are all-are Maoris, pleasant, friendly nntlves; some aro British, and a certain num-ber num-ber nro Dalmatians. 1 M |