Record ID:
35363151 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Heading:
Birth:
  • Dunedin, New Zealand
Death:
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Associated with:
  • Australia Burnie, Tasmania
Occupations:
  • Journalists Businessmen
Notes:
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography online, viewed October 2018 :|b(Sir Gerald Mussen (1872-1960), entrepreneur, journalist and industrial relations consultant, was born on 17 October 1872 at Dunedin, New Zealand ... It was as a newspaper proprietor that Mussen followed experiments to make paper pulp from short-fibred eucalyptus hardwood. In 1924 he was a negotiator between the Van Diemen's Land Co. and Amalgamated Zinc (de Bavay's) Ltd ... for tracts of Tasmanian forest and an intended mill site at Burnie ... Mussen bought 125,000 acres (50,586 ha) and the mill site from the V.D.L. Co. and further options, all of which he transferred to Canberra Activities Pty Ltd. ... Canberra Activities sold out in 1930 to Paper Makers Pty Ltd, which Mussen helped to form with the essential support of (Sir) Colin Fraser. The project continued to languish through the Depression. In 1936, however, Associated Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd was formed ... In 1939 he was knighted ... Mussen died on 21 March 1960 in a Melbourne private hospital
Local system number:
  • 000000365063
  • abv04264804
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng TSL
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc