TIMBER TOWN
When Allan Dick was here in 2009 (he’s been everywhere, man!), he called this mill a time capsule and “one of the most remarkable places in New Zealand”. It’s also our heritage. New Zealand was virtually built on timber, mutton and minerals, and the Endean/Ottaway sawmill near Waimiha typifies the way a mill town would have looked in the middle decades of last century.
New Zealand’s only surviving native timber sawmill operated at Ongarue Stream Road from 1927. Like most mills of its day, it was steam driven, and there was no
