These men are involved in bush felling across the river from the small settlement at Komako.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Pohangina Valley
Date:          circa 1890 to circa 1899

This photograph was taken at the Currie Property, on Grove Road and is believed to date from the latter part of the Great Depression.

This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph that was loaned for copying. The original photo...

Creator:      Allan Currie
Date:          circa 1933

This business was located on Cambridge Street, next to the old library. Members of the King family stand in the gateway, from left: Harold; Hannah (mother); Clem; John. Newspaper advertisements show that E H King was trading in timber from at leas...

Date:          1924 to 1926

The mill was located on the corner of Mulgrave Street and Spelman Court, Ashhurst.

This image is derived from a copy negative made from a photograph loaned for copying. The original photograph is not held by the Ian Matheson City Archives.

Date:          circa 1940

E G Child was an engine driver at flaxmills in the vicinity of Oroua Bridge. Albert Adsett's mill was situated alongside the main road from Palmerston North to Foxton. It stood on the south side of the road, a few yards on the Palmerston North sid...

Creator:      E. G. Child
Date:          June 8, 1907

Three workers, with horses hauling a log along a bush tramway. The background shows evidence of bush clearance by burning off.

Date:          circa 1890

Five timber worksing stand in front of an open-sided shed.

Creator:      Believed to be E. G. Child
Date:          October 22, 1898

These premises - at 129 Main Street, opposite the old Railway station and next to the garage on the Cook Street corner - belonged to the Tiratu Sawmilling Company and Coal and Timber Merchants from 1920 until c.1930, when the Tiratu Co. was taken ...

Creator:      Snapshot Unlimited
Date:          circa 1937

A team of at least six bullocks (with a seventh in reserve), hawl a log along wooden tracks.

Date:          1895 to 1905

Two axemen stand at at the base of a large tree trunk in an area of partially cleared bush.

Date:          1895 to 1905

Carting timber, possibly from Foot's Piripiri Mill or Umutoi Mill. The carriage is crossing the Roneura Stream near Komako on the Pohangina Valley East Road.

Date:          circa 1920

Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. In the 1880s, fire was a tool and a threat in the Manawatū. Trees were felled to meet demand for timber, leaving stumps for years which presented a fire danger. In addition, c...

Creator:      Margaret Tennant
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          January 14, 2023

Broqadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 10 July 2018. John Perrin (b.1934) Part 2 of 2.

Summary: Apprenticeship – joinery. Radiata pine. Terrace End railway station. Timber truck hit by train. Building inspections, residential then commercial. Li...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Date:          July 10, 2018

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 15 August 1960 "This macropcarpa log measured 21ft 6in. In circumference and contained 3700 feet of timber. It is probably the largest log milled in the Manawatu distric...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 June, 1959. "Timber from old demolished houses always attracts the interest of many, and a sale in Featherston Street today was no exception. Some of the crowd is se...

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Featherston Street, Palmerston North
Date:          June 29, 1959

Hokowhitu is a suburb of Palmerston North, situated towards the Manawatu River. The book was published by the Palmerston North Historical Society.

Creator:      Garry O'Neill
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          2012

W H Foot's sawmill at the top of Forest Hill Road, Fitzherbert East, was probably the last mill operating on the northern Tararuas. It was erected in 1920 and operated until about 1927. The mill was situated on what is now Mr Don Scott's property....

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Forest Hill Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          1920

This factory stood on Section 37 on the western corner of Main Street East and Victoria Avenue. The Union Factory was on this site from about 1910 until about 1917. Mr A E Bennett was the manager of the company and Mr A N Gibbons was secretary. Th...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Main Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1912

This mill was situated on the south side of Rowe's Line (now known as Rowe Road) about one mile east from the Foxton-Sanson Highway. The mill was started about the year 1874 by Mr Charles Nicholas Rowe, who had previously been flaxmilling on the R...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Rowe Road, Rongotea
Date:          circa 1893

Foot's mill was the last sawmill to cut timber on the northern Tararuas. It was situated on the top of Forest Hill Road, Fitzherbert East and operated from 1920-1927. The people in this photograph are Mr W H Foot (left), Mrs Foot (right) and their...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Forest Hill Road, Fitzherbert East, Palmerston North
Date:          1924

Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p 35.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Forest Hill Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920 to circa 1929

This mill, erected in 1874, was situated on the east side of Albert Street, between Grey Street and Broadway Avenue. It was owned by the three Norwegians - John Richter, Jacob Nannestad and Frits Jenssen. Mr George E V Koehler is standing fifth fr...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885

This mill, erected in 1874, was situated on the east side of Albert Street, between Grey Street and Broadway Avenue. It was owned by the three Norwegians - John Richter, Jacob Nannestad and Frits Jenssen.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1885

The Palmerston North Sash Door and Timber Co. Ltd operated a sawmill and joinery factory in Albert St, midway between Broad and Grey Streets. The Company was formed in 1892 and took over the sawmill originally owned by Richter Nannestad and Co Ltd...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Albert Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1900

Lewis and Coutts Timber Merchants, Sash and Door Factory, Church Street, c. 1920.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Church Street, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1920

Workmen stop for a break from sawing up logs into timber. It is believed to be in the Feilding/Halcombe area.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1900

Three photographs on a decorated page, showing life in the Kahutarawa Valley - 'Sunday morning in the Whare', travelling by horse back and bush clearing camp. The Kahuterawa Valley is located near Palmerston North in the foot of the Tararua Ranges...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1896

Peter Manson co-owned the first sawmill to be erected in Palmerston North with Peter Bartholomew.

Creator:      American Photo Rooms, Wanganui
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1880

Refer to Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, p. 36.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date:          1983

This second dam on the Turitea Stream was opened in 1907. In 1912, its height was raised to 50 feet. The man in the photograph is Mr Samuel Jickell, who was the Palmerston North Borough Engineer at the time.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1907