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Kōrero: Regional economies

Forest clearance

  • 1840

  • 2000

Forest clearance after 1840 was most dramatic in Northland and in the lower North Island. Regional economies developed in the latter centred on New Plymouth, Whanganui and Palmerston North, as forest became farmland.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Regional economies – Development of regional economies, 1850 to 1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/interactive/25219/forest-clearance (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010.