Tasmania
Railton, Goliath Cement Company
Teodoras Šurkevičius
Henrikas Šurkevičius
worked as labourer for 18 months then as a professor of technology.
Also here worked, Vacys Morkunas Juozas Kriaučiunsas, Vladas Kozakas, Ceslovas
Vistokas
Vytautas Kuncaitis, Mindaugas Petras Šumskas
Rossarden, Tasmania
Rossarden is an old mining town in north-east Tasmania,
located 19 km from Avoca. The town came
into being primarily because of the tin mining operations of Aberfoyle Tin
Mining Company, which created a demand for employees.
Here worked Antanas Bartkevičius, Bronius Margevičius,
Stasys Virbickas, Jonas Mališauskas.
Electrona
Electrona Carbide factory, 40 km from Hobart. Physical work
unloading large rocks of limestone, smashing them with sledgehammers and
loading them onto wagons.
Her worked Adomas Stasytis, V. Stasytienė, Jonas
Motiejunas, Grigaliunas
The Australian
Newsprint Mills
Logs were extracted from areas around Fitzgerald and
Karanja, the workforce camps provided comfortable but basic accommodation. Bushmen used crosscut saw and axe to fell
timber and tractors, dragged logs to sidings, where steam haulers winched logs
on to rail trucks. Spur lines joined the main railway to Boyer. In 1947 the
township of Maydena was built as a base for logging in the Florentine Valley.
Thriving communities developed at New Norfolk and Maydena, with company-built
amenities including halls, football grounds and swimming pools. The workforce
included many single men, often migrants.
Vladas Mikelaitis
Bell Bay Aluminium smelter
The Bell Bay smelter commenced production in 1955 as a joint
venture between the Commonwealth and Tasmanian governments. The smelter was the
first built in the Southern Hemisphere primarily to overcome difficulties
importing aluminium during wartime. Bell Bay was chosen as the location because
of the available hydroelectric power and deep-water facilities. Rio Tinto
Aluminium purchased the smelter in 1960, when production was about 12,000
tonnes per year.
Boyer Mill
Australian Newsprint Mill company mill. About 50 Balts worked here from 1948 – 1951,
they lived in single men’s camps on the site in huts.
Stepas Augustavičius, Ona Taparauskas (Cook)
British Titan Products (Tioxide) Burnie
Lithuanians worked on the construction of a new factory to
make paint pigment from titanium oxide. The
workmen’s camp was located on site, two roomed cottages that had been built
specially for the migrants. There was a communal
shower and laundry and a large dining room where meals were served.
Raimondas Kristovkis
Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australia, Risdon
The Electrolytic Zinc Works were established by the
Electrolytic Zinc Company at Risdon beside the Derwent in 1916. Eighteen
Lithuanians off the Wooster Victory worked here, residing in a new camp. The
camp became known as the Balt Camp. Work included digging trenches, erecting
fences, work in the quarry.
Here worked, Stasys Valaitis, Olegas Truchanas, Jonas Deckys,
Ben Berzanskas.
Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australia, Rosebery
The company was allocated seven Lithuanians off the first
ship carrying migrants to Australia. The
camp consisted of six or seven tin sheds.
The men were engaged in mineral explorations, cutting tracks, cutting
roads.
Here worked; Karolis Maslauskas, Juozas Jablonskis, Salkunas,
Viktoras Kuciauskas, Leons Mikelans
Alex Gabas, Juris Princis, Juozas Stucas, Antanas Maražas.
Lithuanians here helped build dams, power stations, canals and erectednew
villages. Workers were housed in camps
at Butlers Gorge damsite, Tarraleah and later at Bronte Park.
Here worked Jolanta Kulakauskas and the Miežitis
family.
Post Master General’s Department
Guilford Junction, 50km from Burnie and Hampshire. Men lived in tents, with no mains
electricity.
Here worked Pranas Laurinaitis, Bronius Stankevičius
Royal Derwent Hospital (Lachlan Park Hospital)
Mental Hospital at New Norfolk, 25lm north west of
Hobart. Nurse Aids, Birutė
& Irena Kirlytė.
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