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TRACTOR -ARCH LOGGING AT TE WHAITI — MIDWAY BETWEEN WAIKAREMOANA AND ROTORUA. To expedite selective logging and other cutting systems in the Whirinaki Demonstration Forest, a tractor and logging arch of the most modern design, and amongst the largest employed even in North America, is being operated. The equipment has proved well adapted to the topography and soil conditions of this forest.

Plate 14.—Rimu Log, Length 111ft., Girth Breast High 9ft. 6in., and Gross Cubic content of almost 500 Cubic Feet, being conveyed to Log Dump by Tractor and Arch.

Plate 15.—Log Dump and Skids, showing Tractor and Logging-arch.

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