Skip to main content

Kōrero: Kauri gum and gum digging

Gum digger’s licence

Image
Gum digger’s licence

The 1898 Kauri Gum Industry Act and its 1908 amendment required gum diggers working on government land to be licensed. This 1947 licence cost £2 and allowed Tony Yelash of Ahipara to dig for gum on government-owned gum reserves for one year.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-2144

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Carl Walrond, Kauri gum and gum digging – The gum diggers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/12956/gum-diggers-licence (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.