As forest was cleared for pasture, sawmills turned felled trees into timber for fuel, housing and railway sleepers. This is the Gamman & Co. sawmill, near Ohakune, around 1910.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, The Press (Christchurch) Collection (PAColl-3031)
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