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Sawmill, Ohakune

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Sawmill, Ohakune

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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Diana Beaglehole, Whanganui region – Vegetation and human impact, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19013/sawmill-ohakune (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Diana Beaglehole, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 June 2015.