New Zealand - Timber Industry - Powell Company timber tramway, Ohakune, or possibly Rangataua - Circa 1916 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: Powell Company timber tramway, Ohakune, or possibly Rangataua circa 1916 Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Powell_Company_timber_tramway,_Ohakune,_or_possibly_Rangataua_ATLIB_334375.png