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Kōrero: West Coast region

Loading timber, Bruce Bay

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Loading timber, Bruce Bay

Although native timber is abundant in South Westland, the lack of roads made it difficult to transport before the Second World War. This complicated arrangement of derricks and a flying fox, shown here in about 1936, was used to load timber onto a barge at Bruce Bay.

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Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury, A. C. Graham Collection

Reference: 19710

by M. C. Lysons

Permission of the Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Simon Nathan, West Coast region – Forestry and fishing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21147/loading-timber-bruce-bay (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan, i tāngia i te 3 March 2009, updated 1 September 2016.