Kauri The Same As Ever
When the buzz of the circular saw and the tang of the full-girth kauri disappear, the North will have, lost its most lasting romance. Today, with renewed building activity, local sawmills present a spectacle reminiscent of the early pioneering days, with huge kauri, totara. and other logs leaving the forest to become building material. As the power-driven mechanical saws bite into fresh timber, the spectator is taken back many years to days when no such laboursaving devices paved the way for easier milling. Today it is but a few minutes before the full-length log is carried out at the other side of the mill as sawn timber. Man does little today beyond guiding the machinery; but the kauri is the same as ever, and still carries its romance before it.
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Northern Advocate, 14 June 1938, Page 9
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135Kauri The Same As Ever Northern Advocate, 14 June 1938, Page 9
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