Woodline: Five Years with the Woodcutters of the Western Australian Goldfields by Larry R M Hunter

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing marks on inside covers, half-title page and top foredge. Previous owners bookplate on inside cover. Binding and body text are still very good. Includes folded newspaper article.

Up until the early 1950s, vast amounts of wood were used on the WA Goldfields to fuel infrastructure such as the Kalgoorlie Power Station, to fuel steam-driven heavy machinery and to shore up the underground mines. Woodlines were created to supply demand.

The Kalgoorlie-Lakewood Woodline cut out the forests in an area south of Kalgoorlie and east of Lake Cowan.

Larry Hunter worked as a school teacher at the Lakewood main camp from 1946 to 1950. This memoir is an affectionate account of life on the woodlines and a tribute to the hardworking migrants from Italy and southern Europe.