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KAURI TIMBER - GOLD - KAURI GUM These three industries - firstly the kauri (trees) TIMBER was what our new country of New Zealand was founded on. A huge industry. Gold also came very important being found in the Coromandel Ranges then in Central Otago which really established the towns of the region. Lastly the Kauri Gum became an important industry - which once exhausted - the diggers turned their hands to cultivating and developing the land founding the pastoral agricultural industry which has continued to today. I have created three separate articles on each with each selecting special postcards to illustrate them. Again the history of the photographer and the scene is hopefully advanced and may be recorded here for others.
Hydraulic Goldmining postcard
A Fallen Kauri Tree - 12 feet in diameter - Northland
NORTHLAND Reprint - The Kauri Timber Industry An interesting image which shows the timber tracks and logs and the bush behind in Northland.
NORTHLAND Reprint - Men Sorting The KAURI Gum
NORTHLAND Reprint - Draining Swamp For KAURI Gum Image shows the lengths early New Zealanders when to gain Kauri Gum - Once drained - this land then was worked and later still turned into agricultural pastures as they were very fertile. |
