MAORI TIMBER ENTERPRISE IN NORTH ISLAND
(P.A.) TAUMARUNT, This Day. The Maori owners of the Puketapu block, an area of 17,000 acres of timber land situated on the new Tan-marunui-Tokaanu road, have completed transactions which will bring to culmination one of the largest timber enterprises in the country. The Maori owners of the block nearly three years ago formed themselves into an incorporated body to supervise and control the logging and sale of millable timber from this area and they envisage a cutting programme covering a period of 30 years. It is estimated that after allowing for scenic reserves there will be 12,000 acres of merchantable timber available for cutting.
The logging operations have been let by contract and are being carried out by two registered limited Maoriowned companies. The monthly extraction of logs has been between 350,000 and 500,000 feet. Reafforestation will follow the logging operations and a nursery for this purpose will be established at Manunui.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1948, Page 7
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