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If packed in cases ready for shipment, the additional cost will be from £8 to Lo 
per ton. 
The number of persons returned as obtaining their livelihood by colle eong. 
or distributing kauri-resin in 1886 was 1,297, as under :— 
Diggers ... Ss ap a 1,230 
Labourers, packers, ites scrapers, &c. ... “ap a 
Kauri-gum merchants Ar P?, a ne 
This return scarcely conveys a fair idea of the number of persons who obtain: 
the whole or a portion of their livelihood by gum-digging, as many settle gat 
engage in it for a few weeks at a time when work may be slack on their far nye 
also labourers and others from the lack of their usual employment. Itn o 
however, be fairly assumed to show the actual number engaged in digging a 
any period of the year: if compared with the quantity of resin exported dur oe 
1886 it shows that each digger averaged four tons, for which he received from / 80. r 
to £100 at least. When Lanbed on ihe eumfield he would be at no es F 
rent and fuel, but would have to pay RoHet rates for provisions and clothing. I; 
is well known that not a few prosperous settlers date the commencement of ian 
prosperity from working on the gumfields, and there can be no question that the 
village settlements recently eetabiened in the northern districts have alres dy 
deed sreat benefit from the same industry. 
On tHe Uririsarion oF Kauri WASTE. 
All parts of the kauri, tops and large branches, leaves and bark, are alike 
charged with resin, which has hitherto been allowed to waste without any 
attempt being made to utilise it. 
There can be no doubt as to the Dea bihes of extracting the resin not onl; oy 
from the tops and leaves and other forest-waste, but even from the ill a 
the sawdust, slabs, and bark,—thus affording another opening for the rem 
rative employment of labour. 
The concentration of the kauri industry under one management, whicl is 
now being effected, seems to afford a favourable opportunity fot again ra oe 
attention to this opening for utilising waste products. I am convince d that 
persistent attempts in this direction would be rewarded by success, toes re sul t im 
a material addition to the annual returns. | 
EXPLANATION OF Pirates LXXXIa., LXXXIB., anp LXXXIc. P 
LXXXIa. Kaurt logs at the booms. From a phicederee presented — | by 
M. H. Roe, Esq., Qnehaven: 
LXXXIzs. Kauri logs on a rolling-road. From a photograph pisses d by 
Foy Brothers, Shortland. 
LXXXIc. Kauri logs on the skids, Onehunga. From a photograp -~pre- 
sented by Burton Brothers, Dunedin. J 
