Rotorua is the Carlsbad of Australasia.
It is from Auckland that the Kauri gum is shipped.

For a long time now about 8,000 tons of it have been brought into the town per year.

It is worth about $300 per ton, unassorted; assorted, the finest grades are worth about $1,000.

It goes to America, chiefly.

It is in lumps, and is hard and smooth, and looks like amber--the light-colored like new amber, and the dark brown like rich old amber.