How to overcome a health issue

Angina Pectoris

No matter how healthy we think we are, there is always something lurking around the corner waiting to pounce. When I stop to think about what happened to me I realised that this wasn't me just getting older, this was a progressive thing that had been sneaking up on me for at least three years, possibly more and I just got used to it.

Angioplasty: The proceedure.

A thin soft tube called a catherter is used for cardiac catherterization and angioplasty proceedures. The doctor inserts the catherter into a blood vessel in the groin as per the image, wrist, or above the elbow. The doctor carefully guides the catherter through the blood vessels into the corany arteries of the heart all the while using an X-Ray screen to watch the movement of the catherter in the blood vessels. The catherter in my case carried a collapsed stent which had a balloon inside of it. When in the correct position it was inflated to lock each of the stents in place. The ballon is then deflated and the catherter withdrawn from the blood vessel. Pressure is then applies to the blood vessel openning to seal it. After a period of time this is removed usually from four to six hours dependant on the entry point. The high light of the recovery process is the need to consume a minimum of two litres of water to flush the radioisotopes from the kidneys all within two hours. Think about it, and what happens when the need to pass water while on the broad of your back. I have to admit it was the cause of a lot of humour in the recovery ward at the time and unable to hold your own.

Now honestly, who needs enemies when you "friends" like this.

August this year didn't bode well for your's truly. You have a birthday with a difference, one I don't want a repeat of, caught on a wet miserable afternoon rushing to get to the car at the other end of town in pouring rain, sudden chest pain and shortness of breath. Traffic lights RED! Soaked to the skin and still at least 150metres to go across an intersection then helter-skelter for the car park. The pain still persisted and out of breath so another stop in the hope it would pass.

Eventually I reached the car and found that my mobile phone was at home and I needed help. All I could do was sit and wait in the hope that what ever the problem was would pass though temporarily so I could get home.

When I eventually arrived home, Joan took one look at me and asked the obvious question. "Are you alright?" after a few moments she was convinced I needed a Dr. and ASAP. Now have you ever tried to see a Doctor at a minutes notice? It just doesn't happen. First it was a 14 day wait, then it was the following Wednesday. Not good enough. The next morning our youngest daughter hit the phone and I had an appointment that afternoon, so the wheels started turning.

X-Rays, ECG's, EKG's, blood tests, Consultant Physician, stress test, and finally off to the Launceston General Hostiptal Cath-Lab for an Angiogram, then a second stress test, hence the cartoon making its appearance. (Thanks Davo.) It was one stress test I never want to be repeated as I thought I was a gonner. Three minutes thirty seconds after starting I was flat on the floor and requiring revival. Diagnosed with Angina Pectoris. A better result than a heart attack, the heart had suffered no damage so I was lucky. I must say that it was the most uncomfortable 125km trip home I have ever experienced.

Within days I was back for the Angioplasty ( insertion of stents ) for two 98% blocked arteries via incissions in the wrist, a departure from entry via the groin which I had been prepped for twice and wasn't required. (I think the nurses were just getting in some practice at my expense.) The recovery time being at least two hours less, and certainly much less trauma involved, and certainly bruising wasn't an issue.

At this point I want to make it clear to those who may have to follow me down this path. It is no big deal for either the angiogram, or the resulting angioplasty. You are fully conscious with only a local anaesthetic administerd, a small prick at any of the entry points. There is no sensation of the catherter passing through the blood vessels as there are no nerve recepters attached to them. What you may have afterwards is a sensation that there is something foreign in the chest cavity, you will soon ingore that as a part of life.

So here I was barely able to crawl into the Day Surgery admissions at 0830hrs, and by 1645hrs litterally ran out of the hospital like a startled gazelle.

When I think back on it, my father had the same problem in 1970. He was stuck with taking angernine tablets under his tongue plus assorted medication. This sort of cardiac intervention wasn't considered an option forty years ago. He managed to survive a further twelve years putting up with the discomfort if he over exerted himself and that was all too often.

So what is the message in all of this.

(1) If you find yourself in a similar situation, get an ambulance pronto. I was lucky, some one else may not be. Dial 000, (Australia wide) immediately, or your countries emergency number.

(2) Always involve your partner when visiting the doctor of consultants. Two pair of ears are better than one and means that if one missed a point the other picked it up.

(3) Accept good advice from your doctor, consultant physician, and cardiac specialists. It may not be what you want to hear, but you are a long time dead if you don't.

(4) Don't be afraid to share your experiences with others, you may just save their lives and above all be supportive, as you had been by others before your treatment.

I could mention so many names of the doctors, nurses, and people who offered valuable advice, and support, in the weeks and days prior to entry to hospital. To them goes my heart felt thanks.

God bless you all.

Bet you never knew this.

PENGUINS:

Did you ever wonder why there are never any dead penguins on the ice cap in Antartica - where do they go?

It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird that lives an extremely ordered and complex life. The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as well as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life. If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface other members of the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice cap, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough to be rolled into and buried. The male penguins then gather in a circle and "sing".

"Freeze a jolly good fellow!"

"Freeze a jolly good fellow!"

Then they kick him in the ice hole.

You really didn't believe that I knew anything about penguins, did you?

Now you never let the truth stand in the way of a good story I say.

Its so easy to fool young, and old people alike.

Cruise ship season 2010 - 2011

Monday 21st September 2010:
Well we are off to a flying start to the new season of Cruise ship visits to Burnie with the first being the Dawn Princess seen above on the horizon at dawn 6:00am Australian EST. believed to be carrying in excess of 2000 passengers and 700 plus crew.
The City and its volunteers were ready, willing, and able to accommodate them all with information on what to do during their 8 hour stay.
Unfortunately, due to the weather conditions bringing in the ship became impossible and she went out to sea to continue her trip to Hobart at 8:00am.
Regretabley, it was Burnie's lost opportunity.

Burnie Celebrates 74 years of paper making

It is my pleasure to promote this event on behalf of the sponsors.

For 74 Years The Pulp has been the dominant part of life and landscape of Burnie.

To honour the men and women who came from all along the North West Coast of Tasmania to work at the Pulp between 1937 and 2010

The Pulp : Community celebrates

Burnie Arts and Function Centre.

Saturday 21st August 2010,

Between 10:00am and 12:00 midnight,

For this free family event.

Event Program:

Breakfast in the Civic Plaza [10"00am - 12:00noon]

• Free breakfast in Civic plaza.

Exhibitions in the Foyers [10:00am - 5:00pm]

• Contemporary and historic photographs.
• Artworks about the Pulp.
• Kid's club free childrens activies.

BBQ in the plaza [ 5:00pm - 8:00pm]

• With live music. Free entry, buy your own food.

Cabaret in the Town Hall [8:00pm - 12:00midnight]

• With live music. Free entry, buy your own drinks.

Wine bar in the Foyer [8:00pm - 12:00midnight]

• Buy your own drinks and watch the election results.

Proudly sponsored by the Burnie City Council, Wynyard-Waratah Council and the Advocate.

http://john-c-medwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/history-of-paper-making-display-case.html

The end of an era 1938 - 16th June 2010. Fifty five years of memories.

Wednesday the 2nd of May it finally happened. All Taspaper and Silcar employees were advised at 10:00am that the Burnie operation was to be closed. That the supposed buyers from Thailand had walked away from the sale.
Sadly, the ABC News Radio broadcast the story at 9:30am and the company had only just advised workers of a meeting at 10:00, but the news was already out.

Having said that it came as no surprise. Why? The rumour mill had dried up first. A planned four day maintenance program had been defered from February, then to March, then maybe April. None of which eventuated save only the one day scheduled maintenace days.

An ominous sign was the appearance of a number of executive looking people arriving at the mill entrance prior to 8:00am on the 2nd of May, one wag commented to me. "That's it Jack, she buggered!" How prophetic a comment that was as it proved to be two hours later. The last maintenance day took place on the 2nd June and it was blatently clear that the end was near. Pulp base was running out as no more was coming from the Maryvale mill and the Calcium Carbonate plant on the old sawmill site was all but out of stock. Coal was only coming in a few rail trucks a day so the news was passed around that June 16th would be the end of production and full decommissioning started.
I recall having said earlier that the vultures were circling over Burnie, and are now preparing to land and strip the mill site of usable plant and equipment leaving the bones to find their way to scrap merchants.

Now it appears that an Asian consortium will move the pulping plant, both paper machines, and the finishing room machinery out of Australia, set up and produce paper (of sorts) what they won't have is the skills to set up the machines to make it. Those skills will have been lost with the closure with the machinemen retired, or relocated elsewhere.

By the end of August 2010 the Silcar employees will also depart after the decommissioning. Some have found new jobs, others have applied and got nowhere at this point. But what I will say is this. To all the guys I worked beside at both Burnie and Wesley Vale, I couldn't have worked with better people. Good tradesmen, good staff at the end, something I couldn't say in 1995 when this firm was headed up a very rare species of manager, they to are a part of the history that was APPM, Australian Paper, Paperlinx, and lasty, Tasmanian Paper.

The good times were in the early 1960's, then North Broken Hill Pty Ltd. being the major share holders bought the outright ownership of APPM Ltd. That was the rock the proud paper manufacturer perished on. It was all down hill from there. next on the scene was AMCOR and each owner had their own agenda all to the detriment of the Tasmanian operations.

Now we have witnessed the final chapter in the sorry saga of lousy top management with no regards for the loyal long term employees who were in the end; numbers on a sheet of paper to screwed up and tossed in some remote rubbish bin in a corporate office in Melbourne or Sydney.

To those who are going to lose their jobs, hang in there chaps, others including myself have been through it earlier. It won't be easy for the older workers, while the younger ones will no doubt leave the state for greener pastures, and who can blame them. One thing is for sure and certain.

Many will have to radically change their life style. Big wages and salaries earned are a thing of the past, but with care you will find a way to survive. Listen to advice given by those who have been through tough times as it will ease the burden.

Note added Wednesday 16th June 2010.

The last paper was produced today at 0630. Raw materials had been run down to zero bringing forward the shutdown from June 30th to today. One would have to wonder what the employees feelings were as the machine was progessively shut down.

Doubtless, decommissioning will start almost immediately with the power, steam, air and water isolated, then sections of each service removed to render the equipment officially dead. All drives and associated equipment then removed pending sale, but to whom?

Thank you for 55 1/2 years of memories, some bad, but for the most part, good from the two sites of Tasmanian fine writing paper manufacturers Burnie and Wesley Vale.

Note added 30th June 2010.

Much has been said about the Paper Mill at Burnie and how it all began with Gerald Mussen, Sir Walter Massey-Green, Henry Somerset et al. But there is a wealth of material available from all sorts of places including the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Org. My thanks go to Mrs Jan Marinos, one of the "Makers' of Burnie" who supplied me with information written by W.E.Cohen "Twenty years of research into the paper making in Australia".

His paper recounts the emergance of the fledgling paper making in Burnie amongst other ventures in Tasmania.

"Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. operated a soda-pulp mill at Burnie, on the North west Coast of Tasmania. The company was inaugurated in 1936 with a paid-up capital of Au$3,000,000 in today's currency, which doubled for the company's post war expansion program. Production started in 1938 and operations were based initially on the original investigations using the soda process on eucalypt pulps. By means of research concurrent with its operations, the company improved the quality of its products, the yield and cost per ton, and the overall output of its pulp mill.

Pulpwood was drawn from eucalypt forests of the North western Tasmania, the chief species being Eucalyptus Obliqua, Gigantea, Amygdalia, and Viminalis. the mill produced a wide rnge of fine writing and printing papers, hard and soft duplicating paper, blotting and cartridge paper. Some grades were furnished with 100% eucalypt stock and the all over urnish averages 90% of bleached soda eucalypt pulp, the balance being imported long-fibre and non fibrous materials. The mill produced its own caustic soda and chlorine in an adjacent electrolytic plant.

Two paper machines were operated; a 457cm/180inch wide machine with a maximum speed of 240 metres/minute or 800 feet per minute, and a 229cm/90inch wide machine with a speed of 120 metres/minute or 400 feet minute were common with high percentages of eucalypt furnishes. A third machine was nearing completion to go into production. This gave a rated output of 20,000 tons of paper and 18,000 tons of pulp per year. Because of labour shortages and materials, the actual output was lower; 17,000 tons during 1946-47.

During World war II this mill was the sole source of fine writing and printing papers for the whole of Australia." End quote.

Since the article was written by Mr W.E. Cohen a fourth paper machine was added increasing the production figure. In 1962 No.2 paper machine was removed and a modern (in its day) wider machine replaced it designated as No.10. by the 1990's No.10 machine had been so modified that its operating speed and output almost doubled thanks to modern technology. This machine and No.4 were the last surviving machines at the Burnie Mill. Nos.2 and 3 were removed and sold off as scrap.

You will note that I have typed the quoted passage in the past tense. The original was in the present tense. The Soda process initially was done with six of what was known as Static Digesters. These were replaced in the 1950's with two Continuous Digesters which were far more efficient and cost effective. These two digesters are still standing today, but for how much longer begs an answer.

Governmentium explained.

Oh, it just had to happen!

A certain person sent an email that I thought summed up the political situation beautifully in Tasmania and it is as follows.

"Oxford University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science। The new element, Governmentium (symbol = Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it a atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Govermentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete, if at all. Govermentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 4 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes। This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe Governmentium is formed wherever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is refered to as a critical morass. When catalised with money, Governmentium becomes Administatium (symbol=Ad), and element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks, but twice as many morons."

Sound familiar does it?

Now have a look at this website, then think about it. Does that sound familiar as well?

http://paws.kettering.edu/~jhuggins/humor/banana.htmledu/~jhuggins/humor/banana.html

Thanks to "Tweetie Pie", or "Crunchie", Crunchiejen, or what ever name she travels under on the day for this!

Any resemblace to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.

However I could think of a few who fits the bill. It is nice to know who your friends are when they send you images such as the one on the left.

My only comment is . . . . . . . .

"I love you to!"

The end of a paper making era from 1938 - June 30th, 2010.

The announced Closure of the PaperlinX/Tasmanian Paper Operation at Burnie was made to all onsite employees at 10:00 am today 13th April 2010. The announcement was also made on ABC Radio prior to the companies representatives informing them officially. In the meantime the Australian Stock Exchange also made the announcement.
So June 30th the last paper will roll off the No. 10 machine and at some date in July the Finishing Room will also close.
It is hard to say with absolute cerainty where the problems for the seventy two year old company started. At a rough guess it would have been at the time that North Broken Hill Pty Ltd took the controlling interest in APPM after the boom years of the early 1960's. It was at this point that the mining industry was in trouble with low prices and NBH didn't appear to have capital to prop up the Electrolytic Zinc works in Hobart and asset stripping started at the expense of the paper industry, after all paper wasn't NBH's core business. New investment in paper making machines and equipment would have kept the mill in a competitive position in the market place. Added to that the fluctuating value of the Australian dollar against the US Dollar didn't help matters either.

Following on from there Amcor saw the opportunity to buy out the paper merchants owned by APPM/NBH and the coup was to gain control of the REFLEX brand paper that was such a success. The two Tasmanian Mills were considered a load stone or cross they had to bear to achieve the buy out, but at a cost to NBH which precipitated the 1992 strike. (Refer to an earlier article.)

Mis-management with scant regards to the well fare of the employees that remained, has been a sore point since 1992. They became the pawns and a number on a sheet of paper bouncing off the walls of the corporate head office on the mainland, and now it is being screwed up and thrown in a rubbish bin or shredded as is the latest form of disposal.

So the Number 10 paper machine manufactured in England by Walmsley Ltd in 1961, installed in late 1962 - 1963, then its speed doubled in the early 1990's now slowly ceases production along with all the supply lines to it. The likely buyer Thailands Advance Agro's offer wasn't acceptable to PaperlinX management, and the deal was off. The end result, closure and site remediation. Now the rumour mill is in overdrive as it is perceived that after the successful trial of pulp from Thailand being converted to paper, Advance Agro are seen as the buyers of the plant after closure leaving Paperlinx with the remediation costs. A cunning move if ever there was one. Fact or fiction? That remains to be seen.

Maybe now is the ideal time to explain the emergance of Reflex Paper. The original Bond grade of paper was known by an unlikely title of 127N. Marketing wasn't crash hot to say the least, and it became Burnie Bond. This paper was designed for duplicating machines such as the Gestetners of the 50's and 60's and filled that need well, however with the advent of photocopiers and digital printers it was found sadly lacking. It was prone to clogging up the equipment with dust, wasn't opaque enough, nor was it bright, and the inks bled though not to mention paper "curl". This led to the development of an improved formula where extra clay filling, dyes to add brightness, moisture content etc. in fact a whole raft of changes were made to produce the paper now known as "Reflex". The name itself was worth a fortune and Burnie became known as the home of "Reflex Paper" Sadly, no longer.

To the employees being made redundant. I know exactly how you feel. The elder ones will have problems getting jobs, the younger ones will pack up and head to the mainland where other opportunities are waiting for you. To those with homes to pay for and children to educate, you are the ones I feel for most. You will be the ones hit hardest.

To all, I wish you well, and God's speed.

Will the last person leaving please turn off the lights after seventy two magnificent years.

Burnie thanks you, for all those years of opportunity and prosperity.

The story of the "Forest to Paper" display case.

By John C Medwin, Volunteer Tourism Information Officer, and long term employee of the owners. APPM, North Broken Hill, and Australian Paper.

St Patrick’s day 17th March 2010 and the Irish must have blessed us as Tasmanian Paper authorised the removal of the display case to the Makers’ Workshop to go on display after renovation.

With the immanent sale or closure of the Tasmanian operations, I feared that the show piece would disappear forever. To someone’s shed and never be seen again, or maybe to the tip and destroyed as something of no value, or lastly, somewhere that the history of paper making industry in Burnie would be preserved.

The management of the Makers’ Workshop were advised that if they were at all interested, it was theirs after I had made the initial enquiries with Mr Chris Hind and his staff at Tasmanian Paper, Burnie. Our thanks go to him for having the foresight to allow its removal and the reason why, Now comes the renovations from its past dilapidated condition to one of pristine condition once again.

The cabinet with its glass sliding doors was built by George Butcher of Ulverstone, a Cabinet Maker employed by Associated Pulp and Paper Mills in the period between 1955 and 1960 although there is no record of employment past 1950 available. This time line was arrived at by speaking to the only carpenter employee still living Charles Whitton remembered it being made after the first continuous digester was operational. That project took place while I was an Apprentice Fitter and Turner at APPM. Naturally, there were others involved with its building. Bill Birchenough the pattern maker turned the cylinders on the "paper machine" from celery or huon pine. The railway truck and tray under the "Wet end" of the paper machine was the work on Mervyn "Speed" Atkinson a real character who was a plumber and sheet metal worker. The painted signs and original case varnishing were done by Allan Sutton foreman painter during those years. The original ticket writing came from the drawing office tracers which accounted for the symetrical lettering. Due to water damage these have all been replaced with computer gererated tickets.

The finished show case was then screwed to the western wall of the lift from the cutter room floor to the finishing room above where some 200 women were employed to sort and count the paper sent up from the cutters below. It was here that the mill tour guides recapped to visitors the paper making process. Over the passing years it fell into the various stages of neglect till now.

For those who view it will see that it depicts exactly how paper was made at that time. From the harvested forests at Hampshire and Surrey Hills administered by then Associated Forest Holdings Pty Ltd where the logs were then transported to Burnie Board and Timber, later to be known as Burnie Timber. (Both were subsidiary divisions of APPM.) It was then sawn into graded timber and the residue chipped and sent on a conveyor belt to the wood room at APPM to feed into the waiting digestors. Then the process of converting raw wood chips to a cellulose fibre without the other impurities began. The old static digesters were later replaced by the two Solman process continuous digesters developed by Dr Sloman at the Burnie Mill's Research Department.

The chips were cooked with a caustic soda solution in the super steam heated continuous digesters where the separation took place. The black liquor containing the unwanted impurities went to the rotary incinerators, evaporators, and lime kiln to recover the caustic soda, and carbon. The remaining fibre went to the bleach towers to be mixed with a liquid chlorine solution till the pulp became almost pure bleached white in colour. Brighteners were added at a later stage to achieve the high white of copy paper required in today's market place.
The Chlorine was produced using electrolytic cells where strong brine (salt water) NaCl + H2O passed over anodes and mercury to separate the Chlorine (Cl) from the sodium (Na). The resulting fluid was the bleaching agent required, and caustic soda (NaOH) used in the "cooking" of the chips. Today the milky chlorine fluid (ClO2) it is referred to as a dioxin and a pollutant.

The next stage of the process took the pulp to the refiners where it was ground to a finer consistency, alum, clay, and cationic starch (this replaced resin) were added as bonding and filling agents, as well as dyes to colour the paper, or later to produce the bright white bond 80gsm grade paper now known as Reflex Copy paper. At this point it went into stock chests from which it was pumped up to the waiting paper machines to be formed into a usable commodity.

The final stage of the paper manufacture was the cutting of the rolls of paper known as webs into folio sized sheets that the girls in the finishing room sorted and counted by hand on peace work rates, and wrapped by the men ready for sale. (Comment made by Mrs Kate Lincoln) "Girls who had a goal to achieve made a lot of money with bonuses received, others worked hard but never got to the stage of earning that amount of money. The slackers made minimum wage and if not encouraged to leave, or left as disgruntled employees. The ball was always in their court."

Finally, the counted unwrapped reams were sent to the guillotines to be cut into smaller sizes as required to fill specific orders. Such as the now A3, an A4, sized sheets purchased at retail outlets. In those day it was known as foolscap, or quarto with the off cuts being sent back for re-pulping along with the reject paper the girls had discarded as being of faulty quality.

APPM was a family orientated company. Husbands and wives, sons and daughters found ready employment there and by 1960 the golden year for the company, they directly employed 3500 people and many hundreds of others indirectly. The company believed that supplying health care, and the opportunity to build their own homes with low cost loans (2% p/a) refunded if paid in full and on time were to see many families achieve a good start in their married lives. Names like Alex Muir, Tom Coleman, H.K. Sherriffs, Horrie Hodge, and Jack Evans were long term members of the APPM Council that oversaw the welfare of all employees. With the take overs by subsequent owners the APPM Council faded away leaving only the company now known as Healthcare Insurance as a reminder of the past glory years.

By 2009 Australian Paper employed nearly 400 people across two mill sites. Such had been the impact of modern technology and the demands of new owners to downsize. To become more cost effective in a competitive market place. This has become the sword in 2010 now hanging over the industry in Burnie. To be either sold, or closed down and the site remediated.

As the image depicts, there is a difference in the paper produced at Burnie and that of the paper manufactured at Maryvale in Gippsland, Victoria. They still can not match the colour standards achieved at the Burnie Mill, even after transfering the technolgy to Victoria. The Chemists who developed the colour coding have either left the company or moved on.

Burnie owes much to the vision of these men who worked tirelessly to create the paper industry that made Burnie the city it is today. One could only hope that it would survive post June 2010. Unfortunately this was not to be the case as the last of the cutting and wrapping machines were closed down for good on Tuesday 27th July 2010 ending the production era.

One of the great things about the Makers' Workshop is that there are a number of volunteers who spent much, if not all their working lives in the paper industry in Burnie. Feel free to ask for information when you visit us. Alternatively, visitors who visit the Makers' Workshop and Visitor Information Centre should take the time to watch the projected images in the atrium of the building. to get a feel for the industry in the period from 1938 through to the late 1960’s.

In the near future Mr Alan Jamieson will be releasing a book that traces the history of the papermill in Burnie with emphasis on Gerald Mussen whose vision it was in the late 1920's to establish a paper making industry in Burnie. I look forward to the launch and signing of his work.
A city of innovators.
A city of makers.
A city we are all proud to call home.

Posted on behalf of the management of the: Makers' Workshop.
2 Bass Highway,
Burnie, Tasmania. Australia.
Post/Zip Code: 7320

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Retrieval.
From information supplied by Philip Weeks (Silcar Maintenance)
Tas Paper: Chris Hind, and Field Services truck driver, name not known.
Silcar Maintenance: Neil Dixon.
Contract employee: Tony Breen.
Restoration program Makers' Workshop volunteers:
Alison Burgess, Kate Lincoln, John Kuys, Neil Thorne, and author.
Up dated: 15th August 2010
http://john-c-medwin.blogspot.com/2010/08/burnie-celebrates-74-years-of-paper.html