Queensland
Tully Queensland
Many of the DP workers arrived on the third and fourth transports
to Queensland to cut sugar cane.
Resident in private houses with sperate rooms.
1948 900 Balts engaged in cane cutting. Allocations were:
Hambledon110. Mulgrave 40, Goondi 32,
Mourilyan 20, South Johnstone 43, Tully 90. Macknade 61,
Victoria 48.
Queensland Forest
Forests belong to the Forest Department; camp is about 24
miles from Gympie. There are three Lithuanians
here. We live in tents, food storage is
a cupboard, no kitchen meals you cook yourself. Favourite past time is a river where we
swim. 24 workers, which will increase to
150. Earn about L6.19.8 per week. One can save up to L20 per month. The forests are cut and what is left is
burnt. New trees will be planted suitable for building material.
Vladas Koncius
Derrier Creek Camp, Queensland
Workers are all new migrants, 64 workers in tents of whom
eight are Lithuanian. A small township is 8 miles away, nothing else but
forest.
Barakula Sleeper Mill, via Chinchilla, Qld
Antanas Birskys
Stepa Barzdevicicus
Alfonsas Penkaitis, Juozas Stuksis, kazys Simkunas, Jonas Savickas
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