Kauri - New Zealand Native plant.

Kauri Tree compared to human

Kauri are among the world's mightiest trees, growing to more than 50 metres tall, with trunk girths of up to 16 metres and living for more than 2000 years. Kauri forests once covered 1.2 million hectares from the Far North of Northland to Te Kauri, near Kawhia and were common when the first people arrived around 1000 years ago.

 Maori people used kauri timber for boat building, carving and building houses. The gum was used as a fire starter and for chewing (after it had been soaked in water and mixed with the milk of the puha plant).

 The gum too, became essential in the manufacture of varnishes and other resin-based products. The gum was obtained through digging, fossicking in treetops, or more drastically, by bleeding live trees.

For more about Kauri Tree, visit
http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-plants/kauri/

Mahurangi post office 1867 at warkworth museum

Kauri park close to Auckland is on Parry Kauri Park. There is also museum inside the park.  Inside the museum are displays of the kauri digging implements, photographs of gum-digging, giant pieces of kauri gum, saws, native timber, bushman's hut and other items connected with the Gum Digging Days.
On the far side of the carpark there is a "whim", which was used to haul the logs out of the bush, and other items connected with kauri logging.