Jim Spiers with logs and horse (c. 1941)

Date1941DescriptionBlack and white photograph of Jim Spiers attaching chains to logs behind a horse. Alison Brown writes; 'In 1941 Jim took up one of the first technical trainee positions with the NZ Forest Service and at the onset of his training was sent to Conical Hill Forest, nine miles east of Tapanui in West Otago. The Tapanui area had five distinct plantations, known as the Pomahaka District.' Horse logging in New Zealand plantation forestry by Alison Brown was an entry in the 2012 Memoir and Local History Competition. Photograph: Alison Brown.
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Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the New Zealand Society of Authors Bay of Plenty basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Harley Couper), on September 29, 2013.
Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/new_zealand_society_of_authors_bay_of_plenty/images/show/6115 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License.

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