INTEREST. Lumbering in New Zealand and Burma.

Titles (27). New Zealand lumberjacks felling large tree by axe, sawing trunk into sections, which are hauled away by tractor (52). A large horse team hauls a wagon loaded with a tree trunk. A man standing on top of the trunk steers the team (99). Trunks are loaded onto railway wagons. Train pulls out (124). A trunk is rolled down a bank from a wagon (140). Burmese elephant handlers at work: elephant manoeuvring tree trunk, then hauling it (170). Burmese axemen felling a tree, the sawing (190). Elephants hauling logs through the forest, and butting them down river bank, then manoeuvring them into mid-stream (261). A large raft of logs is floated downstream (280). Handlers bathing their elephants (308). Empire Film Library Imperial Institute logo (310ft).