EVENTS DIARY
Sydney – PNGAA Christmas Lunch A small but joyful group of members attended the Sydney Christmas function on 2 December 2023 at the Waterview function centre at Bicentennial Park. Being a very casual affair...
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PNGAA REPORT
Management Committee Update 2024 began at pace for the PNGAA Management Committee which had its inaugural meeting on 10 January with members hooked in from Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Western Australia! The following week...
Dinner with the King of Norway … in the Snow – ANDREA WILLIAMS
Under a domed night sky reminding us of early celestial navigators … Flying from a warm Australian spring to Oslo, Norway, just below the Arctic Circle, in late October 2023 meant that the Silentworld...
CSIRO Surveys in Papua New Guinea – Chris Warrillow
Ken Granger, in his three-part account of the above, described some of the trials and tribulations of providing logistic- and transport-support for a group of scientists and other professionals who spent time in remote...
The Skull – Peter Uechtritz
Our plantation, ‘Sum Sum’, is situated on a lonely stretch of the south-east coast of New Britain. Our nearest neighbours live twenty miles in one direction and thirty miles in the other. Native tracks...
A Manitoba Family in Gili Gili: 1925–29 KATHERINE PETTIPAS—PART 3
From 1925 to 1929, William McGregor, a Canadian farmer/rancher worked on the Gili Gili Plantation in the Milne Bay District as the Head Stockman for Lever Brothers. Accompanying him on this venture were his...
Destination PNG 1972 – Deryck Thompson
In late 1971 there was a notice in the Australian press advertising positions available as Assistant Patrol Officers in Papua New Guinea. I applied, and in my interview in Melbourne, I was told that...
Fireworks at Wau – Ross Lockyer
Jim Riley and I wandered about the New Guinea countryside and into the jungle at any opportunity, visiting villages, mission stations, gold sluicing operations, the old gold dredges and anything else that looked interesting....
Memorial Service in Japan – Peter Ryan
Recently I was invited as a special guest to a moving ceremony in Kochi – on the island of Shikoku, Japan. This ceremony was the Japan/New Guinea War Veterans Memorial Service, conducted by the...
Matapui Part 1: EKKE BEINSSEN
It is late July 1929. A leaden heat, saturated with moisture, broods over Salamaua, the harbour town of the goldfields of New Guinea. I am waiting on the verandah of the only guesthouse. Like...
Japanese Memorials & Kokoda – Peter Ryan
Unexpectedly there are two Japanese memorials on the Kokoda Track. The first is that erected in 1979 by the Japanese PNG Goodwill Society with the permission of local authorities after it was agreed that...
The Life of a Young Geologist in the 1960s – MALCOLM CASTLE
The mining industry was going through a boom cycle worldwide with companies like US-based Kennecott Corporation investing in exploration in Australia and New Guinea in a big way, and the idea of the adventure...
Hidden Hazards – Donald Grant
My introduction to life as a lay-missionary teacher at Wirui Mission station, Wewak, on the North Coast of PNG, could not have been more unique. Dutifully, on the morning of 28 January 1959, I...
Crossing the Saruwageds, Easter 1976 Part 1: IAN HOWIE-WILLIS
I left Papua New Guinea (PNG) in August 1973 after three years at Brandi High School near Wewak, and then almost six years at the University of Technology (Unitech) in Lae. Following some time...
A PNG Music Mix in Queensland – M A Uechtritz
What are the odds of two Papua New Guinea-born creatives meeting by chance in the Highlands of Eudlo in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland? When Chris Cobb stepped inside the door of Bradley Campbell’s shed...
