New Zealand - Timber Industry - A New Zealand Forest Products truck in Tokoroa procession - The load there is a sign advertising New Zealand Forest Products, Kinleith - This truck may well be in a Christmas parade - 1950s to 1960s - Egmont Box Company Photographs Rimu - One of the most popular of our native timbers - Because it was used extensively in older character homes as both a structural and finishing timber, it is probably New Zealand’s best known native species. - Rimu has been proven as a remarkably versatile and exceptionally beautiful timber. - Good supplies of recycled rimu are available from a range of suppliers and demolition timber yards. - Rimu timber can also be sourced from sustainably managed forests. (Reference: read more at http://www.nzwood.co.nz/forestry-2/rimu-2/) 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: A New Zealand Forest Products truck in Tokoroa procession, 1950s to 1960s Egmont Box Company Photographs Dairy Records Archive Tamiro https://massey.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/736