New Zealand - Timber Industry
- Bullock team hauling logs across a river. Exact location unknown, but probably in Northland.
- 1910s
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)
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Image source: Hauling logs 1910s
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1747-10894
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/94302