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Story: Logging native forests

Logging and milling

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Two men use axes and a crosscut saw to bring down a giant rimu, probably during the 1950s. Before chainsaws became widely used, this was the way trees were felled.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Logging native forests – Managing native forests, 1920s–1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/13971/logging-and-milling (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009.

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03 November 2011
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