Henry H. MacFie with son Peter in 1944.
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“The Newsprint” Published
This book is the story of the forestry industry that fed the Australian Newsprint Mill at Boyer in southern Tasmania, the politics behind the enterprise and the people who worked there and lived in Maydena and the wider Tyenna Valley. Over a hundred people were interviewed for this wide-ranging book, from the General Manager of ANM to the whistle boys, and just about every job in between. These included the fallers and the first aiders, nurses and doctors who patched them up, the log measurers, loaders, road makers and the truck drivers who left their names for posterity on the tricky corners where they came unstuck. Plus so many more.
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‘The Newsprint’ – A Social and Forestry History of Maydena
‘The Newsprint‘ – A Social and Forestry History of Maydena. An Experimental Logging Town in the Tyenna Valley, Tasmania. 1920 – 2020
by Peter H MacFie
Abstract
Australia faced WWII totally dependent on imported paper. This is the tale of Government determination to become self sufficient, using the massive eucalypt forests from the high rainfall areas of southern Tasmania. Australian Newsprint Mills (ANM) developed a mill at Boyer, near New Norfolk on the Derwent River, and built a town at Maydena and an industry to feed the mill from the forests of the Tyenna Valley, the Styx Valley and then the Florentine Valley. Peter MacFie interviewed more than a hundred of the many people who worked or lived at Maydena and surrounding areas to tell the story of ANM and their forest Concession. It began as a dense wilderness that produced urgently needed paper at any cost through World War II and on through many changes until today the mill is fed on carefully maintained rapidly growing plantation timber from those same wet valleys. Three generations of many families worked for ANM, and here they tell their story in their own words.
Details
397 A4 pages, 157 photographs, 9 maps & charts, plus footnotes, bibliography and detailed index.
Front and Back Cover Design for ‘The Newsprint’—A Social and Forest History of Maydena by Christopher Cowles © 2020.
Purchase
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Bookstores carrying this book
Fullers Bookshop
131 Collins St, Hobart Tas 7000, ph 03 6234 3800
Cracked & Spineless
138 Collins St, Shop 9, Imperial Arcade Hobart, TAS 7000, ph 03 6223 1663
The Hobart Book Shop
22 Salamanca Square, Hobart TAS 7000, ph 03 6223 1803
The Book Cellar
132 High St, Campbell Town TAS 7210 ph (03) 6381 1545
New Norfolk Newspower
48 High St, New Norfolk TAS 7140, ph 6261 2720
Petrach’s Bookshop
89 Brisbane St, Launceston TAS 7250, ph (03) 6331 8088
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Contents Page
Index
Sample Chapter: 3 – Top of the Valley
Libraries Tasmania
Henry H. MacFie
Henry H. MacFie
Henry H. MacFie was the father of Peter MacFie. After serving during WW2 in New Guinea, he trained as an engineer and spent his working life with the Hydro-Electric Commission. He was particularly interested in historical engineering. This page links to his published works, but before he was an engineer, Lt. Henry MacFie was a soldier during World War II in New Guinea where he was awarded the Military Cross. Peter tells the story in his biography See No Evil.
Henry married Lilian Archer and their first son, Peter, was born in 1943. They met briefly when Peter was 3 weeks old, and then not again till Peter was 9 months old, in 1944.
In Memory of Henry Hector MacFie
Compiled by his second son, Robert H. MacFie
All Works by Henry H. McFie
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| Year(s) | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Duck Reach – The First Significant Hydro-Electric Development in Australasia: H.H. McFie 1992 | * |
Oxford History of Gardens
Citation
Oxford History of Gardens, ed R Aitken, 2000. Entries for Royal Botanical Gardens, Port Arthur, Maydena/Lutana, Cascade Gardens, Peter MacFie
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