New Zealand - Aoroa timber mills, Wairoa River
- Circa 1900
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: Aoroa timber mills, Wairoa River. Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs. Ref: 1/2-079963-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23179356
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