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Watch a man demonstrate how he used to climb kauri trees to cut them so they would bleed gum. Here he is working for the New Zealand Forest Service and is collecting cones, not gum.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference: New Zealand Mirror 6. National Film Unit, 1950
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