The arduous and desolate working conditions in the kauri gumfields of Northland is illustrated in this 1911 photograph of Austrian diggers with their gum spears, used to probe the soil for buried gum.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PA-Group-00027)
Reference:
1/1-004940; G
Photograph by Northwood Brothers
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.
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