Cruising in Papua New Guinea waters: Don Hook
In May-June this year I spent 28 days with the Collins Brothers as a paying passenger on what was billed as an ‘epic voyage’ from Kiunga on the Fly River to Wewak in East...
Category: Cultural insights
Going back for a look: Graham Egan
Graham Egan served in PNG from 1967-81 at Kerema High School, Maprik High School, Mt Hagen Technical College, Administrative College, Rabaul Secretarial College, Goroka Technical College and High School. We had been thinking about...
Epic voyage 2013: Jacky Lawes
Jacqueline (“Jacky”) Lawes is a great granddaughter of the Reverend Dr William Lawes, of the London Missionary Society We were 32 passengers in all on two ships (the MV Miss Rankin and the Surveyor)1...
The journey home: Rod Noble
One day you’re walking down George Street in Sydney. Next day you’re stranded with a landslide on Daulo Pass on the way to Kundiawa. The stark and sudden contrast is never easy to reconcile....
Tubo Eco-tourism Lodge, Lake Kutubu, Southern Highlands: Doug Robbins
Lake Kutubu has become well known for the Oil Fields and more recently the Gas Project. In 2009, I spent eight weeks there for a different reason. The village owners and operators of Tubo...
The times they began a’changing: Clarrie Burke – UV Sept 2012
The time: 3.00 pm; date: August 14; year: 1960. Anyone living in or visiting Port Moresby in the hours leading up to that time would have reckoned with the endless unbroken lines of cars...
The history of judo in PNG: Charles Betteridge
It was a beautiful Sunday morning in June 1961 and I was at Ela Beach in Port Moresby having my usual dip in the ocean and admiring the surrounding beauty (especially the two-legged female...
Village cricket, Hood Peninsula, 1965: Robert Grieve
It seemed like a good idea at the time. The teaching staff at Hula Primary ‘T’ School reasoned that the benefits of a village cricket competition far outweighed the problems it might create. We...
Kevin Murphy—PNGRFL stalwart: Ephaya DSamuel
Kevin came to PNG in the late 1960s as a young kiap and served in the West Sepik Province. He was a contemporary of the late Sir Barry Holloway. He left the kiap service...
The Library Institute Hall and Arts Theatre: Ray Kelly
A brief history preamble: 1914-1950 The Library Institute Hall on the eastern side of the Library Institute in Douglas Street had been the major centre of community social life for the residents of Port...
A Mexican writes Rugby League in Port Moresby: Richard Jones
Rugby League has long been the pre-eminent sport in Papua New Guinea, a fact rugby union, Aussie Rules and soccer fans have just had to stomach. So it should come as no surprise to...
The beginnings of Rugby Union in PNG: Dennis Bradney, MBE
Dennis Bradney was educated in Sydney and Brisbane (Sydney Grammar, Sydney Technical College and Brisbane Central Technical College) and worked for several Australian architectural firms before joining Comworks Port Moresby in 1964. He later...
Moresby school sports newspaper reports: Richard Jones
Reporting school sports activities in Port Moresby and from other Central Province locations was well advanced in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The South Pacific Post and then the daily Post-Courier regularly ran...
Cry from the heart of an SOQ: Jim Toner
A 50-year-old piece of doggerel from the Southern Highlands. Lois Niall, daughter of District Commissioner, Horrie Niall, had just joined the Welfare Branch of Native Affairs and, in her travels around PNG, was fluttering...
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...
