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Pine man, Tokoroa

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Pine man, Tokoroa

This wooden sculpture of a forestry worker holding a chainsaw stands in the centre of Tokoroa, a reminder of its history as a timber town. The sculpture, ‘The Pine Man of Tokoroa’, was created by artist Peter Dooley and presented to the district by the Tokoroa Rotary Club in 2004.

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Michael Roche, Exotic forestry – Harvesting the forests, 1950s–1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16540/pine-man-tokoroa (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Michael Roche, published 1 March 2009.