‘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.

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