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Kōrero: Logging native forests

Location of South Island sawmills

Marlborough, the West Coast and Southland were the main milling areas in the South Island in 1907.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: B-K 766-C4-50B

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Nancy Swarbrick, Logging native forests – The timber industry, 1840–1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/13794/location-of-south-island-sawmills (accessed 4 June 2026).

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