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Kōrero: Logging native forests

Rimu logging at Mamaku

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Rimu logging at Mamaku

In 1916, the Mountain Rimu Timber Company was operating in the Mamaku area, south of the Kaimai Range near Rotorua. In the background are steam haulers, used to shift logs.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)

Reference: APG-0699-1/2; G

by Albert Percy Godber

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, Logging native forests – The timber industry, 1840–1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12744/rimu-logging-at-mamaku (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.