The least is the greatest: Geoffrey Baskett
A poem written for Christmas 2008 Said the Camel to the Donkey as they stood beside the stall, ‘A King chose me, so I must be More honoured than us all.’ Said the Donkey...
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New Guinea: Bernard Oberleuter
Bernard wrote this poem in 1956, when he was in Grade 6 at St Mary’s, opposite Lae Bowling Club. I know a verdant island fair With forests ferns and flowers rare Where mountains tower...
Kainantu High School and its coffee plantations: Riley Warren
In 1974 I was posted to Kainantu High School in the Eastern Highland District as Head of Maths and Social Science. It was my third year in the country, having spent my first two...
The Mekeo rice project, 1950-54: Allan Boag
Writer’s notes: As it is 60 plus years since the Mekeo Rice Project was conceived, and as it was part of the history of the Administration of Papua and New Guinea of the time,...
Nondugl—Birds of Paradise and interesting visitors: Gordon Dick
John Browne’s account of his period at Nondugl in the mid-1950s (Una Voce. June 2013) aroused memories of the three years my wife and I spent there ten years later. John indicated the difficulties...
Nondugl in the 1970s: Ken Woodward
I was interested in the stories on Nondugl in the past two issues of Una Voce. I was there in 1972 with John Munul, a young economics graduate of UPNG, one of the first,...
The Okapa pine forest: Alan Ross
The year I undertook a reconnaissance of the Jimi Valley pine stands in the Western Highlands District (see here) saw me as well in the eastern extremities of the Highlands. In the months of...
Barrick Gold 8000 feet above sea level: Gary Faulks
During 2007 I visited Porgera on three occasions to assist the Porgera Development Association. Porgera is situated in the highlands PNG. The following item details some of my activities and thoughts regarding the future...
Opening the Kassam Pass: Bob Cleland
An obituary of Ian Downs in the PNG Post-Courier mentioned him as “the principal facilitator of the construction of the Highlands Highway.” Stuart Inder in the Sydney Morning Herald had words of similar import....
Carry on up Mount Wilhelm: Jim Toner
(Published Una Voce, September 2000, Page 18) Jim Toner: Chief Clerk, District Office, Mendi 1957-59; District Office, Rabaul 1960-64; Field Manager, New Guinea Research Unit (ANU), Port Moresby 1965-73 I wanted to be Administrative...
Volcanoes: Charles Betteridge
In one’s life there is always the unexpected that happens when you least expect it, and it can have a lasting effect on you and this can be in any shape or form. Some...
Morning in Goroka: John Pearne
Shared thoughts with those who have known Papua New Guinea Lines written following a return visit, after twenty-one years, to the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea One awakes, the memory of so many...
Lombrum: Jerry Lattin
From 1963 to 1965 I was in command of the small naval cargo ship HMAS Banks in PNG waters. Later, in 1970, I had a year in HMAS Aitape commanding the PNG Patrol Boat...
Jimi River memories: Peter Skinner
Tabibuga in the Jimi River was one of the more far-flung patrol posts in Western Highlands District while my father Ian Skinner was DC during the mid-to-late 1950s and, while most of the time...
Independence Day in Wewak: Charles Betteridge
The following is taken from my personal notes I wrote up just four days after PNG’s lndependence celebrations in 1975 at Wewak. It is Saturday afternoon 20 September 1975, and as I sit on...
