New Zealand - Timber Industry
- A bush locomotive at Raurimu. Price type "O"
- Logging locomotive owned by the Tamaki Sawmill Co., Raurimu
- 1916
- Albert Percy Godber 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)
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Image source: A bush locomotive at Raurimu. Price type "O".. Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives. Ref: APG-1208-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23129136
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23129136