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Story: Exotic forestry

Planting seedlings

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Planting seedlings

Women workers at the Whakarewarewa nursery in the 1920s plant seedlings in lines, ensuring they are carefully spaced so the roots can develop properly.

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Michael Roche, Exotic forestry – Research and education – to the 1940s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16535/planting-seedlings (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Michael Roche, published 1 March 2009.