Ellis and Burnand Tramway (Manunui)

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Ellis & Burnand Tramway
New Year's picnic on January 2, 1911
New Year's picnic on January 2, 1911
Route of the Ellis and Burnand Tramway (Manunui)
An old A-class steam locomotive near Manunui around 1920
Route length: 8 kilometers
Gauge : 1067 mm ( cape track )
Legend
   
 0 NZR to Taumarunui
   
 Manunui
   
 Punga Bridge over the Whanganui River
   
 8th Ohotaka

The Ellis & Burnand Tramway was an 8 km long forest railway with a gauge of 1067 mm (3 feet 6 inches ) near Manunui in New Zealand from 1903 to 1942 .

history

JW Ellis and Harry Burnand built a forest railway from Manunui , then still called Waimarino, to Ohotaka in 1903 after the NZR railway on the North Island Volcanic Plateau had been extended to Taumarunui . From 1905 she crossed the Whanganui River on a 100 m long bridge, although this was only advertised at the beginning of the same year. Around 1909 there was a more than 8 km long steel rail network near Manunui.

The sawmill and box factory opened in Manunui in 1907, and a plywood and veneer factory followed in 1911. Manunui developed into a sawmill settlement divided into acre- sized blocks.

During the global economic crisis around 1930, a four-day short-time working week was introduced for all 270 employees. During this time, mainly kahikatea for butter boxes and strawberry chip baskets was whipped and processed.

The sawmill closed in 1942 after most of the trees in the bush were felled. A major fire destroyed the sawmill in 1949, but the Ellis Veneer Works and its offices were retained. In 1953 they were producing more than 2,100,000 solid cubic meters (7,000,000 ft) of plywood per year.

  • Manunui around 1910

  • Manunui sawmill before the 1915 fire

  • Punga Bridge over the Whanganui River near Manunui

  • Punga Bridge over the Whanganui River near Manunui

See also

Commons : Ellis and Burnand bush railways  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kerryn Pollock : King Country Places . In: Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , March 30, 2015, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ News from Country Districts. . In: New Zealand Herald , February 16, 1905, p. 7. Retrieved February 17, 2018. 
  3. ↑ Local and General. . In: New Zealand Times , July 22, 1905, p. 4. Retrieved February 18, 2018. 
  4. ↑ Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 . In: Waikato Argus , 1905, p. 3. Retrieved May 21, 2018. 
  5. ↑ a b REPORT of Commission on the Timber and Timber-Building Industries; together with Minutes of Proceedings and of Evidence. . 1909. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  6. ^ Philip Cleaver: Maori and the Forestry, Mining, Fishing, and Tourism Industries of the Rohe Potae Inquiry District 1880-2000 . February 2011. Accessed July 24, 2018.
  7. ↑ Jeff Downs : Valder, Henry . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Volume III . Auckland University Press , Auckland 1996 ( online [accessed September 17, 2018]).
  8. ^ Timber Trade Problem. . In: New Zealand Herald , September 7, 1927, p. 10. Retrieved February 21, 2018. 
  9. ^ Butter Box Timber. . In: New Zealand Herald , September 9, 1927, p. 10. Retrieved February 21, 2018. 
  10. ^ Timber Industry . In: Evening Post , June 11, 1927, p. 8. Retrieved February 21, 2018. 
  11. ^ A b 1953 Jubilee Year: Half a Century of Progress in the Timber Industry of New Zealand, 1903–1953. | National Library of New Zealand ( en-NZ )
  12. ↑ King Country Mill Destroyed . In: Bay of Plenty Times April 7, 1949: 3. Retrieved on February 18 2018th 

Coordinates: 38 ° 53 ′ 22 ″  S , 175 ° 20 ′ 6 ″  E