New Zealand - Timber Industry - Iwitahi Forest - Hydraulic Log Handing Machine stacking Pinus Radiata logs ready for loading onto trucks in the Iwitahi Forest - November 1975 - R. Anderson Photo 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: Archives New Zealand Reference: AAQT 6539 W3537 156 / B8431 www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24811138