Samoa Forestry - Labourers - men and women - heading out for a day's work on the Asau reforestation scheme. Date of the photograph unknown.
(Photo: Archives New Zealand.)
By Fuimaono Lumepa Hald
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19 September 2022, 11:40PM
Asau on the north west coast of Savai’i was once a bustling sea port, second only to Upolu’s Matautu due to a flourishing but short lived timber trade that started in the late 1960s.
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