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Kōrero: Logging native forests

Logging and milling

Video file

Two men use axes and a crosscut saw to bring down a giant rimu, probably during the 1950s. Before chainsaws became widely used, this was the way trees were felled.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Logging native forests – Managing native forests, 1920s–1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/13971/logging-and-milling (accessed 24 June 2026).

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

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