Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, pp 40-41:

Chmelicek, Frederick, Austrian (Moravian)
The Hermit of Kojunup, West Australia
"The Hermit" was stationed at Dumholz, Moravia, Austria, when in June 1882 he wrote to Cardinal Simeoni, Prefect of Propaganda, expressing a wish to come to the Australian Mission. Simeoni referred the request to Bishop Griver of Perth, who happened to be in Rome. The Perth Bishop wrote to the forty-nine year old, and accepted his offer of service. Late in November of the same year Chmelicek arrived in Albany by mail steamer to commence his stormy West Australian career. On 2 October 1883 thirty-nine Catholics living in the timber producing town of Jarrahdale wrote to Father Matthew Gibney V.G. asking for a permanent priest, so Chmelicek was sent along to help the Jarrahdale people become established and have a chapel of their own. In 1884 the centre of the operations for the mission was changed to Kojunup, where the going was tough for the Moravian who was not well equipped in the language and ways of the 'timber country'. "Plenty of drunkenness, many mixed marriages ..." - such was the verdict of the Pastor of Kojunup in a letter to the Vicar General, dated 18 March 1884. His intentions were good - to build presbyteries at Kojunup and Williams, to proceed with a chapel at Kojunup, and that despite hard times and very little cash in the pockets of his people. For some reason that is not clear a charge was laid against the Pastor in 1885. The people rallied to his support and sent this petition to Bishop Griver: "We, the undersigned, beg of your Lordship not to remove our well-beloved priest, who always complies with his holy duties. We attest that on every Sunday he visits the other missions in this district ..." The case dragged on until Dr. Gibney took over the bishopric from Griver. All seemed well at least until 1887. But some time after this year, Chmelicek was suspended by his bishop and went to live in the hermitage of St. Frederick, that he had set up in the country eight miles east of Kojunup and on the Katanning road. The finding of Father Moynahan who had closely studied the relevant correspondence in his capacity as archivist in the Perth Cathedral is that communication between 'The Hermit' and his bishop was poor, and that Gibney acted too hastily. Some years later a friend in Perth, H.S. Ransford, took up the cudgels and wrote several letters to Gibney, who now seemed to be regretting the situation. He expresses "sympathy for this highly educated, simple minded and kind-hearted old priest". On 14 February 1907 Ransford was still pleading the cause with Gibney: "I visited Father Chmelicek at his hermitage the week before last. The old man is very ill indeed. His body is filthy. His eyes are almost closed with running matter. His mouth is in a fetid state ... In Katanning I informed Father Phelan. Perhaps a word from you to Father Phelan will do good. As God is my judge I believe Father C. to be the soul of honour and suffering for conscience sake. He believes that his brother priests think him guilty ..." (P.S. The dear old man wrote an affectionate letter to me, strongly urging me to follow Newman and others into the pure light of the R.C. communion ...). Father Martin Newbold, former holder of the archivist's office in Perth, takes up the remainder of the story: "Father Chmelicek died on 8 June 1909 at his hermitage on the Katanning road. He was 76 years of age and had come to Australia when he was forty-nine. The burial was conducted by Father Michael Reidy, P.P. of Katanning. This burial took place in a small private cemetery near the original presbytery. About thirty years ago his body was moved to the town cemetery, and a tombstone was placed over his grave some ten years later by subscription among the parishioners. A simple granite cross bears his name and date of death, and "Tu es sacerdos in aeternum". And to that we can add the further comment made to Bishop Gibney by Ransford: "He writes to me to say - I ought to join his Church". The editor adds the personal reflection: the sadness of the story is greatly aggravated by the poor communication between the bishop and his priest. Perhaps both Chmelicek and Gibney were at fault.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 4)
Ref.: Perth Cathedral Archives, per Late Father Martin Newbold.