Alf is a bit bemused about this kauri carry-on.
Here’s how he sees it: enterprising people are doing Northland a favour by ridding its swamps of kauri.
But Dover Samuels, one of the region’s prominent citizens, is hollering for a halt to the clean-up, which – for good measure – is earning good export dollars.
These logs have been lying in the swamps for many, many years.
Now that someone is making a buck from them, Dover recognises them as a treasure and the export of them as “plunder”.
Obviously heĀ disapproves of this treasure being turned into cash (although maybe he would be tempted to change his mind if he was given a slice of the action).