page_title: Seventy Mile Bush
hierarchical_section_title: Seventy Mile Bush
caption_attribution_description: English: Title	Five Mile Avenue, Forty Mile Bush Production	Bragge, James (photographer), circa 1875, Eketahuna Medium summary	black and white photograph, albumen silver print Materials	albumen, silver, paper, mounting board Classification	photographic prints, albumen prints, vintage prints, black-and-white prints Technique	black and white photography Dimensions	Image: 216mm (Height) x 293mm (Width) Mat: 407mm (Height) x 457mm (Width) Credit line	Acquisition history unknown Registration number	O.000750
context_page_description: The Seventy Mile Bush was a heavily forested area of New Zealand extending from Wairarapa to Central Hawkes Bay and out to that coast. It was cleared and settled by Scandinavians, assisted immigrants in the 1870s. On arrival they walked from the surrounding coastal settlements to cut down the forest and clear the land for farming. The land was not as described to them. Without funds for a return passage they were obliged to remain.
  The area encompasses what are now the towns of Norsewood, Dannevirke, Pahiatua and Eketahuna in the Tararua District and reached right into Hawkes Bay to the outskirts of Takapau and Maraekakaho. Its eastern boundary stretched almost due north-south from just south of Cape Turnagain on the coast to about 40 kilometres due west of Hastings.
  Forty Mile Bush
  The Forty Mile Bush was the southern part of the Seventy Mile Bush. It extended from Kopuaranga near Masterton to Woodville
  Remnant
  A remnant was saved in 1888, the Mount Bruce Forest Reserve, now the site of the Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre.
context_section_description: The Seventy Mile Bush was a heavily forested area of New Zealand extending from Wairarapa to Central Hawkes Bay and out to that coast. It was cleared and settled by Scandinavians, assisted immigrants in the 1870s. On arrival they walked from the surrounding coastal settlements (Wellington, Foxton and Napier) to cut down the forest and clear the land for farming. The land was not as described to them. Without funds for a return passage they were obliged to remain.
  The area encompasses what are now the towns of Norsewood, Dannevirke, Pahiatua and Eketahuna in the Tararua District and reached right into Hawkes Bay to the outskirts of Takapau and Maraekakaho. Its eastern boundary stretched almost due north-south from just south of Cape Turnagain on the coast to about 40 kilometres due west of Hastings.
  Forty Mile Bush
  The Forty Mile Bush was the southern part of the Seventy Mile Bush. It extended from Kopuaranga near Masterton to Woodville
  Remnant
  A remnant was saved in 1888, the Mount Bruce Forest Reserve, now the site of the Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre.
caption: Five Mile Avenue, Forty Mile Bush, Eketahuna circa 1875
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