gumdigging played an important role in the local economy
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Many of these were cut down and moved away and then farming and gum digging became the major sources of employment.
Forest had been burnt to clear land for farming and gumdigging.
The migrants were mostly men in their teens who came out to New Zealand to make their fortune in what is generally referred to as 'gumdigging', now a historical profession.
His source material was Tupu's journal entries - taking in his early adult forays into gum digging, breeding horses, and whaling.
"Biological gum spear" is a reference I hadn't heard before but it cleverly ties together the Dalmatian history of gum digging in the north with rooting.
Gumdigging was the principal occupation.
Our shared Dalmatian ancestry reminded me of our gumdigging forebears who fled the hardship of the Austrian empire for freedom and opportunity in a new land.
Here you've got archaic sites that go back to the earliest time of human settlement, right up to archaeological remains of industries like gumdigging.
Gumdigging helped to sustain small village settlements.
They would make one class of land which is only suitable for gumdigging, and make it available to gumdiggers.