This town of just over 5,000 inhabitants was founded in 1872 by Irishman Joseph McMullen Dargaville, who arrived in New Zealand as a banker and quickly became interested in the region's potential. Playing a key role on the Kauri Coast, Dargaville was heavily influenced by the presence of the Yugoslavs, who pioneered the exploitation of the giant kauri tree and its resin. Several sawmills were in unison, exporting thousands of hundred-year-old and thousand-year-old trees every year... Today, there is no such forestry. The town has turned to agriculture, and in particular to kumara.

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