User:Kauri Gumdigger

I am a resident of New Zealand, and take my name from the gum-diggers who worked in New Zealand's kauri forests in the nineteenth century.

I am interested in developing the pages about my local area, and am currently (slowly!) working on a page about the Chelsea Sugar Refinery, which had a massive impact on the growth of Auckland's North Shore, yet has been strangely neglected by local wikipedians.

I don't spend very much time editing, but I hope my contributions will enhance the encyclopedia. If you are interested in these things, I would be very pleased to work with you: please introduce yourself.

Achievements

 * Gum-digger. This page was a very small stub when I found it.  I expanded it considerably, and it featured in the main page Did you know? section on 20 November, 2007.
 * Pompallier Mission. I created this new page about New Zealand's oldest industrial building.  It featured in DYK on 26 November, 2007.

Notes for later use

 * Chelsea: NZ Historic Places article
 * Luke, Peter; Sugar workers, sugar town : an oral history of Chelsea Sugar Refinery, 1884-1984. Auckland, N.Z. : New Zealand Sugar Company Limited, 1984. ISBN 0473002701
 * I'd like to use this: http://www.historicbirkenhead.com/membersstories23.htm others similar
 * http://www.bayofislands.net/bars-restaurants/restaurants/sugar-boat/
 * http://www.aucklandlibrary.co.nz/general.aspx?id=581&ct=821#H
 * http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=24669