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Show THE KAURI GUM DIGGINGS. Knurl' gum, found underground In .H Now Zonlnnd and dug to tho amount H of n million nnd a half pnuudn yearly H Is used for furniture rollshcs nnd vnr- H nlshcB, mid most of It Is exported to( H America. Tho Industry of digging It H Is unllko any other In the world. A l H knurl forest Is n beautiful Bight, but ' H kauri gum country Is treeless, bnrrcn ( H nnd dcsnlato, oven and swampy very H often, with singularly heavy, cloggy , H coll, out of which tho gum formed on H knurl pines of ancient nnd long van- H Ished forests Is dug or spread. Thcro H nro wholo Btrctchcs of this treeless H kauri country with nothing but a lit- H tlo scrub nnd fern growing on It. |