Story: Kauri gum and gum digging

More links and websites

• 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.

More suggestions and sources

• 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.