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Kōrero: Kauri gum and gum digging

Whārangi 5. Hononga, rauemi nō waho

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

  • The Kauri Museum

    The website of the Kauri Museum in Matakohe, Northland, includes information on kauri gum.

  • Tony Yelash

    The website of Ahipara, a small town near Kaitāia in Northland, tells the story of one of the last gum diggers, Dalmatian Tony Yelash.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

  • Brown, Michael, and Aleida Spoelstra, eds.
    The figs and the vines: gumdigging in
    Kaipara
    . Dargaville: Academy, 1996.
  • Hayward, Bruce W. Kauri gum and the
    gumdiggers : a pictorial history of the kauri gum
    industry in New Zealand
    . Auckland: Gordon Ell,
    Bush Press, 1989.
  • McNeill, Joanne. ‘Northland’s buried treasure.’
    New Zealand Geographic 10 (April–June
    1991): 18–45.
  • Reed, A. H. Farthest north: afoot in
    Maoriland byways
    . Wellington: Reed, 1946.
  • Reed, Alfred. The kauri gumdiggers. 3rd
    ed. Auckland: Bush Press, 2006.
  • Wagener, Roy. Gumfields of Aupouri.
    Kaitaia: R. Wagener, 1977.
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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Carl Walrond, Kauri gum and gum digging, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/8386/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).

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