kauri gum

These varnishes are also finding application in the manufacture of concrete, steel, and flat wall paints; being especially suitable for the above purposes when compounded with kauri gum japan.

The kauri gum forms a large figure in the table of exports from Auckland, and the digging and preparation of it for market, as we have shown, gives employment to many persons.

The British slept that night without tents round fires of kauri gum, but next morning all was astir for the attack.

A fossil kauri gum is collected for export; it makes a varnish almost equal to Japanese lacquer.

For many years about a million dollars' worth of kauri gum was thus obtained each year.