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traffic continued to grow, alongside a new timber trade, but the greatly reduced labour needs of these trades saw the town's population lessen.

Controversial attempts to site an aluminium smelter at Aramoana at the mouth of the harbour in 1975 and 1980 did not succeed.

From the 1970s, an artists' colony grew up in Port Chalmers and Carey's Bay, contributing to tensions over the port's continuing industrial development and changing the demographics of the town.

In 1987, the Port Chalmers

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