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Story: Bush trams and other log transport

Page 9. External links and sources

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  • Timber industry

    On the Department of Conservation website, this page about the timber industry includes information about locations where you can see the remains of historic kauri dams, log haulers and bush tramways.

More suggestions and sources

  • Anderson, Ken. Servicing Caterpillar: the story of the Taumarunui branch of Gough Gough & Hamer. Taumarunui: C & S, 2000.
  • Diamond, J. T., and B. W. Hayward. Kauri timber dams. Auckland: Lodestar, 1975.
  • Mahoney, Paul. The era of the bush tram in New Zealand. Wellington: Transpress, 2004.
  • Reed, A. H. The new story of the kauri. Wellington: A. H. & A.W. Reed, 1964.
  • Reed, A. H. The story of the kauri. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1954.
  • Simpson, Thomas E. Kauri to radiata: origin and expansion of the timber industry of New Zealand. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973.
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Paul Mahoney, Bush trams and other log transport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/8298/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Mahoney, published 1 March 2009.