Through the mill: Tokoroa’s tough year was about much more than job losses
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Hurd, Fiona
Dyer, Suzette
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[From introduction] Kinleith Mill, cycles of new owners, restructuring and retrenchment have been a fact of life since the 1980s. Each ownership change and downsizing has affected the mill’s workforce – and, inevitably, the Tokoroa community.
In July this year, foreign-owned Oji Fibre Solutions closed the mill’s last paper machine, effectively stopping all manufacturing. Not long after, Carter Holt Harvey announced it was also shutting its Tokoroa plywood plant.
The double impact and loss of 249 jobs was seen by many as simply the latest blow to a dying forestry company town. [...]
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The Conversation. December 10, 2025. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/through-the-mill-tokoroas-tough-year-was-about-much-more-than-job-losses-269262
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