New Zealand - Timber Industry - Sawyers cutting a log - Two pit sawyers cutting a large log at an elevated cradle, in the Auckland district - Circa 1900 The value of all forestry exports (logs, chips, sawn timber, panels and paper products) - $NZ 3.62 billion for the year ended 31 March 2006 - $NZ 5 billion in 2018 - Australia accounts for just over 25% of export value, mostly paper products, followed by Japan, South Korea, China and the United States. - In 2018, wood products were New Zealand's third-biggest export - Forestry accounted for approximately 3% of national GDP - Directly employing 20,000 people (Reference: Wikipedia) --------------------- Image source: Sawyers cutting a log : digital photograph circa 1900 Item from Collection: Clapperton, Ray: postcards (00-82) https://masterton.spydus.co.nz/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/ARCENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=510684