Bamu patrol: Adrian Geyle
(Published in Una Voce, March 1998, page 13) 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....
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Those early days had their moments: Jim Eames
Editing a newspaper in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s came with a whole range of challenges to overcome but a massive amount of satisfaction in return. Not long after Melbourne’s Herald and Weekly...
Fun days in PNG broadcasting, Richard Jones
I’ve been broadcasting either from the studio or from outside locations since the mid-1960s. When I started calling amateur boxing tournaments from ringside for the ABC’s 9PA Port Moresby-9RB Rabaul radio network in the...
The ‘Territorian’ Newspaper – Port Moresby 1950: Ray Kelly
Popular sportsman and Magani Rugby Team wingman, Jim Jeffreys, son of Mrs Prue Frank of Rouna Road, 4 Mile, was Publisher-Editor of a newspaper titled the Territorian. It was of foolscap format, produced on...
To the Admiralty Islands: Ted Rhoades
I applied for the position of overseer on a copra plantation with a firm called Edgell & Whiteley Ltd. The plantation was situated in the Admiralty Islands, part of the then Australian Territory of...
Murder trial of Aro of Rupamanda: Graham Hardy
On 10 April 1957 a tribal man named Aro from Rupamanda, close to Wabag Government Station in the Western Highlands District of the Territory of New Guinea, murdered his two wives. He immediately afterwards...
Pat Dwyer: Justice v. The Law
Sometime during 1962 I spotted a Karamui archer aiming at a chook. Good shot sir, right through the neck. ‘O, sori. Kakaruk bilong Sergeant Anki.’ Donning my police hat: ‘You’re nicked.’ Dissuaded the Sergeant...
Forgotten murders—Still a mystery: Jim Toner
(Published Una Voce, September 1997, Page 38) 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 Forty years have passed since...
Arrival in Popondetta, 1947: Marjorie Kleckham
Two children; lost plane; torrential rain; soggy suitcases; barefoot trek and a missing husband! Marjorie Kleckham’s father, Geoffrey Sheldon, was a surveyor in PNG. He surveyed the Bulldog Road which eventually became the...
International incident: Jim Toner
(Published Una Voce, September 1999, Page 23) 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 As a variation on memoirs...
The murder of Errol John (Jack) Emanuel, GC: Derek Bell
Jack Emanuel was awarded the George Cross posthumously for gallantry in the service of the Australian Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea between July 1969 and his death on 19 August...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots
Paul Quinlivan was sent to TPNG as a Crown Prosecutor in January 1952 to clean up a heavy backlog of criminal cases. He remained until 1983, becoming Chief Crown Prosecutor in 1957. In 1960,...
Teaching the kids in Tinung: Adrian Geyle
(Published in Una Voce, March 1999, page 31) 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....
Kay Cole’s introduction to New Guinea: Bob Cole
(Published Una Voce, March 1993, page 16) Bob Cole’s career in Papua New Guinea spanned the years 1938 to 1968. Bob was in District Services and Native Affairs, serving in the Sepik, Bougainville, Western...
ABC-9RB Rabaul: Early days by Graham Taylor
In 1958, as an aspiring family oriented young Kiap concerned about our future well-being in Papua New Guinea, I job-hopped into the ABC. It proved to be an inspired decision. This second career as...
