As internees, they had the option to accept paid work and they were employed as wood cutters for the Allied war effort.
The cut logs were collected and transported to Renmark on the PS Ulonga captained by Bob Reed.
The camp guard was provided by members of the 25/33 Garrison Battalion, a militia unit of the Australian Army.
At one stage, the civilian internees were removed from the camp for their own safety, because Japanese POWs considered them spies of the Australians.
The stone roads and tracks are still visible with some building foundations, the cricket pitch, flattened tennis court area, telegraph cable and some small monuments.