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Haurongo: Cleveland, Francis Leslie

Going bush

A man stands in a bush setting, with an axe raised over his head, preparing to split a log.

Les Cleveland gave up his journalism career in 1951 and spent five years as a bushman on the West Coast. He’s pictured here in 1955, squaring a silver pine log with a broad axe at Mussel Point, Haast.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Les Cleveland Collection. 1/4-129405-F

by Les Cleveland

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.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Lawrence McDonald. 'Cleveland, Francis Leslie', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47863/going-bush (accessed 4 June 2026).