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Tasman pulp and paper mill, Kawerau

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Tasman pulp and paper mill, Kawerau

The Tasman pulp and paper mill was the largest industrial plant in New Zealand in the 1960s. Most New Zealand factories were small enterprises, with the only exceptions being primary processing plants like freezing works, and those factories which drew on New Zealand’s resources, such as this mill which turned wood into pulp and paper.

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Brian Easton, Economic history – Industrialisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24349/tasman-pulp-and-paper-mill-kawerau (accessed 17 June 2026).

Story by Brian Easton, published 12 April 2010.