The trunks of the Kauri trees may be seen floating down the rivers from the forests above till they are caught, as they pass the various mills, by baulks stretched at an angle across the stream to intercept their progress.
Once inside the Kaipara Harbour a large expanse of rather uninteresting water is available, but the rivers which flow into it are wide and picturesque, afford excellent wildfowl shooting, and are the home of the trade in Kauri timber.
Williams and Davies walked with me to part of a neighbouring forest, to show me the famous kauri pine.
The timber of the kauri is the most valuable production of the island; moreover, a quantity of resin oozes from the bark, which is sold at a penny a pound to the Americans, but its use was then unknown.
It is said, that by digging in the barest spots, lumps of the kind of resin which flows from the kauri pine are frequently found.
In 1830 twenty-eight vessels made fifty-six voyages from Sydney to New Zealand, chiefly for flax; but they also left parties of men to prosecute the whale and seal fisheries, and to cut kauri pine logs.
He was now engaged in the flax andkauri pine trade.
Besides flax, it was found that New Zealand produced most excellent timber--the kauri pine.
This was not the great Titore, who was the first to commence the felling of kauri spars for the Navy, but another chief of the same name.
First commenced the felling of Kaurispars for the navy.
Last of all, the little chapel of kauri wood, stained desk, like the inside of a really good ecclesiastical building in England, porch S.
It is from Auckland that the Kauri gum is shipped.
The noblest of these trees were of the Kauri breed, we were told --the timber that is now furnishing the wood-paving for Europe, and is the best of all wood for that purpose.
A not less interesting excursion was made to the Kauri forest in Titarangi, among the Manukau hills, to which we were conveyed in a couple of dog-carts.
One of the most valuable trees of the New Zealand forests is the Kauripine (Dammara Australis).
Old Smith accompanied us in person to the forest, which consisted principally of the lofty, slender, broad-leaved Kauri pine.
In Auckland we saw several pieces of Kauri rosin weighing 100 lbs.
She reminded him of Maxie's arrowhead in its Kauriwood box.
I carried it around in my wallet, and then when I was in New Zealand I made the box out of Kauri wood.
Wandered round a bit, Terry calling my attention to the good water supply, and got a glimpse of some tall, ghostly Kauri pine; I felt some of my former enthusiasm revive.
The noblest of these trees were of the Kauri breed, we were told the timber that is now furnishing the wood-paving for Europe, and is the best of all wood for that purpose.
A fossil kauri gum is collected for export; it makes a varnish almost equal to Japanese lacquer.
The kauri pine furnishes the chief supply of lumber.
Originally appeared, under the title From the Book of Kauri the Indian.
The kauri was first brought into notice by Captain Cook, who, it will be remembered, passed many months in New Zealand altogether, and the greater part of the time in the north.
It yields a timber highly prized where kauri cannot be got.
Thus the kauri holds a place in history, having had its share in making this our Brighter Britain.
I think I might say, with quite as much show of reason, that if the present rate of consumption were even doubled, as it doubtless will be, a century may elapse before economy in cutting kauri need be studied.
An assertion has been made, that if the present rate of consumption be kept up, some eighty years will see the end of the kauri forests.
Also, each distinct tract of kauri bush, or forest, contains trees of a certain uniformity of age, consequently of size.
Unlike the character of the mixed bush—the forest where trees of many other kinds are found—the kauri bush is weirdly depressing from its terrible monotony.
When working with parties of the Government Land Survey, I had good opportunities for getting some idea of the stupendous supplies of kauri timber.
It would seem that the kauri had, in the course of ages, exhausted the soil on which they grew, of constituents necessary to their growth, and had then naturally died out in such localities.
I fancy that it is a calculation made in ignorance of the real extent of the kauri bush.
There are but few trees produced anywhere in the world that can rival the mammoth kauri in bulk.
It would seem that the deposits of gum in the soil are all that remains of ancient kauri forests.
With tools of this nature the Maori levelled the gigantic kauri pine, and cut from its trunk the ponderous waka-taua, or war-canoe; cut and shaped with an accuracy that would stand the test of nice geometrical instruments.
How long ago the kauri forests that covered the now open fern-lands died out, it would be hard to say.
After it come the kauri forests of Mongonui, Whangaroa, and Coromandel.
The largest wood in England is but the size of one dingle in a kauri forest, and is flat and tame contrasted with the hilly ruggedness of the land here.
Crozet calls thekauri trees cedars, and is full of praises of their size and quality.
Kauri timber brought half a crown a foot, and the duty charged on it at the Sydney customs house was a shilling a foot.
They tortured--with burning kauri gum--an unfortunate soldier whom they had captured alive, and whose screams could be plainly heard in the English camp.
A camp on shore was established for the invalids and another for the party engaged in cutting down the tall kauri pines for masts.
The so-called gum for which he searches is the turpentine, which, oozing out of the trunk of the kauri pines, hardens into lumps of an amber-like resin.
Next morning I went on again for another hour and a half, and was met on the platform of a tiny country station by the local manager for the Kauri Timber Company.
Through the kindness of the Auckland Tourist Bureau and the Kauri Timber Company, special arrangements were made for me to see some forests, on the south-east of Auckland, where the trees are now being felled.
There is a quantity of kauri gum, and many ornaments made from it--all a clear yellow amber colour.
Kauri timber is excellent for all purposes of building and furniture, and is now being rapidly cut down; in another twenty years or so, except for scattered trees in inaccessible places, very few will be left.
The kauri is the king of the New Zealand forest trees and takes a thousand years to come to maturity.
From Auckland, I took a journey of over a hundred miles, in search of a kauri pine forest.
We went first through partially cleared country, with a few scattered homesteads; then past bush from which the kaurihas been cut, and through acres of which forest fires have swept, leaving bare hillsides and blackened stumps.
Defn: A coniferous tree (Podocarpus totara), next to the kauri the most valuable timber tree of New Zeland.
Defn: The fossil resin of thekauri tree of New Zealand.
A splendidkauri tree one hundred and seventy feet high, which shaded the entrance of the valley, was torn up by the roots, as an awful blast swept down the forest glades with annihilating force.
Kauri gum is thus one of the most valuable constituents of good varnish.
Footnote 83: Fossil Kauri gum has sold for one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars per ton.
It should be remembered that spruce and fir woods are often confused with one another, and that there are trees, as the Douglas spruce and Kauri pine or spruce, that are called, but are not, true spruces.
But the wood itself is only a part of the wealth of the kauri forests.
For many years about a million dollars' worth of kauri gum was thus obtained each year.
In places where old kauri forests have existed, diggingkauri gum is a profitable employment.
Pines, much like the kauri pine of New Zealand, grow in the high plateaus.
Of all the forest trees the kauri pine has been one of the most valuable--has been, because not many trees are left.
A species of pine, much like the kauri pine of New Zealand, grows on the larger islands.
These Kauri pines are only found north of Auckland, and the nearest forest is some fifteen miles away.
Small holes are tapped into the skin with a sharp-pointed instrument, and then filled with the prepared juice of the Kauri gum, boiled down to a dark blue substance.
We were so sorry to be leaving Auckland without seeing a Kauri pine forest.
KAURI PINE, in botany, Agathis australis, a conifer native of New Zealand where it is abundant in forests in the North Island between the North Cape and 38 deg.
Not likely," said Jem, staring hard at a couple of young kauri pines, which grew up at the foot of the precipice, and whose fine pointed tops were within a few feet of where they clung.
The British slept that night without tents round fires ofkauri gum, but next morning all was astir for the attack.
As she was to call at New Zealand to get some kauri spars, five Maoris went with her, working their passage over.
Meanwhile English vessels more and more frequently visited New Zealand for pork and flax and kauri pine, or else to catch seals, or merely to take a rest after a long whaling trip.
Among the places to which they exported kauri was Mauritius, the vessels which took the timber returning with cargoes of sugar.
Out of the centre of one of them which I have seen, there is now growing a kauri tree one hundred and twenty feet high, and out of another a large totara.
The pit in which the kauri grew, had been partially filled up by the scaling off of the bark of the tree, which falling off in patches, as it is constantly doing, had raised a mound of decaying bark round the root of the tree.
There was an immense demand for amber, andKauri gum might be used as a substitute, and in six months' time would be double its present value.
He could not find an individual so enterprising as to venture to deal in a cargo of Kaurigum after his fashion.
They bought a cargo of Kauri gum, coming from New Zealand.
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