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Rimu logging at Mamaku

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Rimu logging at Mamaku

In 1916, the Mountain Rimu Timber Company was operating in the Mamaku area, south of the Kaimai Range near Rotorua. In the background are steam haulers, used to shift logs.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)

Reference: APG-0699-1/2; G

by Albert Percy Godber

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Nancy Swarbrick, Logging native forests – The timber industry, 1840–1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12744/rimu-logging-at-mamaku (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009.