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New Zealand Forest Service protest

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New Zealand Forest Service protest

Staff of the New Zealand Forest Service protest against government restructuring plans in the late 1980s. Despite opposition to what was termed the ‘Beehive Horror Chainsaw Massacre’, the department was disestablished in 1987, and many people lost their jobs.

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Manawatu Standard

Reference: 13 November 1986, p. 1

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Michael Roche, Exotic forestry – Government restructuring, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16610/new-zealand-forest-service-protest (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Michael Roche, published 1 March 2009.

Comments

Tom Beadel
20 November 2012
Could this photo be of Donald Coats?