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...
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 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...
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...
The town of Rabaul is this year celebrating the centenary of its becoming the capital of German New Guinea under its present name: it was originally begun as Simpsonhafen. The following information about its...
Despite a cancelled Air Niugini flight, we got to Alotau to join the Akademik Shokalskiy with only minutes to spare before she sailed on Saturday 14 April 2012. A converted Russian scientific research ship,...
The first glimpse of Rabaul after an absence of 35 years was astonishing. Press reports and the occasional visitor had painted a picture of desolation, dust, and permanent destruction. The lovely Rabaul that we...
This draft of an article was found in a filing cabinet in the Memorial Hall at Samarai which was being used in 1946 as the District Office. Stan Middleton was the District Officer and...
All the schools in the Highlands in the sixties and seventies had a major problem. Only one-fifth of your year six children, if they passed the external exam, would be able to progress onto...
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...
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...
At the time of Roma’s death, we were not members of the ROAPNG, and no notice was submitted to the Vale section of Una Voce. A belated tribute is given here, for one whose...
After we left Kavieng in New Ireland, the Macdhui took us to Sydney where we moved in with my mother’s parents at Lindfield where my grandfather, Rev. G. E. Johnson, was the Methodist minister....
(Published in Una Voce, September 1998, page 14) Adrian Geyle was CPO for two years at Lake Murray, Kiunga, Gaima and Daru, Western District; PO OIC Green River, Sepik District; PO H/Q, Madang District....
Richard (Dickie) Thomas Squires was born in London on 10 February 1893. He was educated at the Elementary County School, London, until fourteen years of age. On 7 January 1910 Squires enlisted in the...
