Her father made a fortune in the chewing gum industry.

Start with the 15-minute video telling the story of the trees, their mysterious destruction and the gum industry.

While the gum industry prospered, the Cubs grew less competitive over the decades.

As the forest disappeared and the gum industry declined in the 1920s, the village also declined.

The development of the kauri gum industry changed the focus of settlement to Whangarei.

Instead, Adams helped to found the chewing gum industry with a product that he called "Chiclets".

As the kauri timber and gum industries declined towards the end of the century, dairy farming became established.

"I don't advocate this as a form of exercise," Dr. Levine said in an interview, adding that he had no ties to the chewing gum industry.

The kauri gum industry became established around Matakohe in 1867-70, possibly the first place in the Kaipara District that the industry developed amongst settlers.

The Park Visitor Information Centre disseminates information on the "Kauri trees, gum industry and native birds and other wild life."

In 1898, the "Kauri Gum Industry Act" was passed, which reserved gum-grounds for British subjects, and requiring all other diggers to be licenced.

Wickham might have commented that his business took precedence over a vote on the future of the chewing gum industry, but his priorities were not a politician's priorities.

He was "one of the first to exploit the kauri gum industry, he exported gum to the United States and timber and flax to Sydney.

He was to assist in British Honduras, with experiments on the sapodilla tree (Achras zapota), which yields chicle, for the U.S. chewing gum industry.

The museum tells its story from the colonial viewpoint, and presents its representation of the kauri gum industry as part of the process of creating the New Zealand identity.

Kauri Gum and the Gumdiggers: A Pictorial History of the Kauri Gum Industry in New Zealand.

The company enjoyed a substantial lead in the chewing gum industry during his early years with the firm but, by the time he assumed the presidency in 1961, the company's leadership was succumbing to sugarless gum, and later bubble gum.

How New York Got Its Spots The chewing gum industry got its start in New York because chicle, a rubbery substance produced by the tropical sapodilla tree, found its way to Staten Island.