Kopara Bushmen getting logs for the Kopara Sawmill at Ngahere.

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DescriptionKopara Bushmen getting logs for the Kopara Sawmill at Ngahere. Hartill photo.
PhotographerHartill Map^[1]ContributorMoe Bowes

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Location (city or town)NgahereOrganisation (eg business) Kopara Sawmill

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Date Created18th June 2026CommentsSista Bob
Dad worked there in the 60s

Jessie Pinkman
Sista Bob ?? dave shand , Steven Leo Shand your grandad.
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Gazey Colville
Jessie Pinkman Dave worked at Arnold sawmill in the bush up Maori gully

Jessie Pinkman
Gazey Colville I remember getting a lift home in the work van from kokiri school.

Gazey Colville
Jessie Pinkman
Did you ever see Dave without a cigarette in his hand ?

Jessie Pinkman
Gazey Colville he eventually gave them up , in his 60s if I recall ?

James Codyre
Had a few relations who worked in the Kopara bush over the years.Budgie,Dennis,and Johnnie McLaughlin and Fink Mathews.Mick McLaughlin worked in the mill.

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Kopara Bushmen getting logs for the Kopara Sawmill at Ngahere.

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