Return to Opouri and Carluke

W. Carr erected a mill in the Opouri to clear out an area of bush which remained there. A. De Boo and K. Douglas later took over the plant and moved it a few miles down to the valley to work out another stand of timber. Finishing this they moved the mill setting it up at Carluke only a few chains away from where Brownlees had their big mill. The De Boo family operated the mill here for many years but could not have kept going for so long had it not been for crawler tractors and motor trucks to collect the logs.

A small mill was operated by Max Wallace at his place in a valley called Staghorn near the head of the Opouri Valley.

There were two mills in the Rimu Gully area milling areas of bush that Brownlees had left. One, owned by Ingram and Partner, was on the right hand side of the road, and the other was at the head of the Gully, being operated by Baigents.