INDEX. 195 
fund—4, 180: Kauri forest left—106, 179: management (third and normal 
period)—83, 97 to 101: original Kauri forest—6: two types of—Puhipuhi and 
Watpoua—179: value of 14 million acres to New Zealand—2, 4, 180: trees for 
planting in the Kauri forest—135: low stock of Kauri in present forests comparable 
to Teak in Indian wild forests ; interplanting standards will remedy this at small 
cost: New Zealand Kauri forests like the coppice-under-standard forests of France 
—179: the Kauri forest of the future (normal Kauri forest), its data and possibilities 
—180, 181: mnemonic for data of—180. e 
Kaurt “gum” (see ** Kauri resin”):—Kauri-gum Commission of 1898—53; Kauri 
“coum” land, eeonomic use of—d3. 
Kauri growth—10 to 19; tends to grow slowly when young—18: photo of rings—19: 
same as H. viminalis after fifty years—l18: Auckland Domain—l6: Matthews 
—15: Mitchelson—l4: Cheeseman, Hochstetter, &¢.—10: Lane-Poole—19: two 
mnemonics—16, 19: Kauri growth and Shortleaf-pine compared—l4, 138. 
Kauri groups : their twofold origin—79, 
Kauri habitat :—New Zealand—s: ‘others—27, 28: climate where grow the largest 
trees—9, 
Kauri interplanting—129: cost of full plantations—70, 130, 166. 
Kauri :—Largest timber-yielding tree in the world—l, 42, 178: largest existing trees 
of Kauri—51: Kauri height, 250 ft. to 275 ft. the maximum—l3, 43: maximum 
diameter, 22 ft,—43, 49. 
Kauri land (see ** Kauri soil *’). 
Kauri :-—Natural regeneration of —26, 27: seed—26: coppice and cuttings—120, 121. 
Kauri Park (Trounson’s) and Calayeras groves of Redwood in U.8.A.—50, 
Kauri: present and future values of Kauri timber—99, 103. 
Kauri photos and pictures—l4: Mr. Josiah Martin and Miss Matilda Smith—30: 
Lands Department blue-books—29: Dr. Cockayne—26; Kirk's “ Forest Flora” 
—51: Cheeseman’s * Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora *’—vol. 2. 
Kauri planting (see also “ Interplanting*’):—Cost of a regular plantation of Kauri— 
130, 166, 186: cost of replanting Puhipuhi with Kauri—70. 
Kauri: Quantity of timber and forest left—106. 
Kuuri reserves ; the mid-rotation—86. 
Kauri resin (* gum” )—30 to 41, 178: yield—32: opinions on “*‘ gum-bleeding,” 
—33: price—tl: improves the timber and is thought to invigorgte the tree in France 
—31: gemmage & mort of the Auckland * gum-bleeders °—31: opinion of Ranger 
Lusk—34: resin-tapping in other countries—Guscony, Portugal, India, America, &c. 
—34, 35, 36: theory and practice of resin-tapping—36: function of resin—37 : 
deposits of resin (*‘ gum”) in the crowns of trees—39: author's experiment on 
resin-tapping—40: Panama Exhibition pamphlet on Kauri resin—41: “ gum- 
diggers *’ as forest improvers—41: in balance-sheet—96 to 101. 
Kauri soil -—Poverty of—i4:; economic use of—53: remarkable proposal of Kauri- 
gum Commission to sow poor “gum land” with Gorse instead of restoring the 
Kauri forest—53: opimion of E, P. Dansey, an Indian Forest officer travelling in 
New Zealand during the war, that on poor Kauri soils the Kauri tree is the most 
productive crop—53: grows fairly even in swamps—146. 
Kauri stature (see ** Kauri—largest timber-yielding tree ”). 
Kauri thinnings—92, 93, 87. 
Kauri Timber Company of Australia paid a 64-per-cent, dividend in 1917—L05. 
Kauri timber—19 to 26: value in the old days and now—19: Laslet on—20; Kirk—20: 
compared to Oregon—20: four classes—20: sapwood and heartwood—21: as a 
fancy wood—22: not well shown in museums—23: timber specimens, preparation 
of—23: minerals and Kauri timber in the museums—24: beautiful Kauri—25: 
at Puhipuhi—royalties and sawn-timber values—66: value doubled in fifteen years 
—104: quantity left—107. ; 
Kauri tree -—Discoverer of the—7: most massive timber-tree in the world—49: among 
the world's ten most valuable timbers and about double their timber-yield—53 : Kauri, 
a tree of Mediterranean latitudes but heavy rainfall—7; number required at 
regencration—83: Kauri “tree of the future *’°—73, 74, 179: tree will not be 
exterminated—52. 
Kavanagh, H, P.—33, 61, 75, 178. . 
Kings of their classes; New Zealand’ s two best timbers—110. 
Kirk on natural regeneration—7, 128: Kauri stand—8s2. ; 
Kohekohe (New Zealand Mahogany), Anightia, and secondary timbers—112: grows 
easily from cuttings—120. 




Labour—97, 99: in European forests (see “* Employment ”): coloured labour—l0L: 
current labour rates in New Zealand about twenty times those of India—lL04. 
