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...
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...
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...
That so many delightful and interesting stories fill the pages of Una Voce and PNG Attitude convinced me to add my small contribution to the mill. In October 2010, after years of procrastination, I...
It was my first flight ever. In Sydney, just before midnight on 5 December 1966, a TAA Electra lumbered into the air, turned north and flew all night, with a brief stop at Brisbane,...
2014 ANZAC Centenary Commemorative DinnerWednesday 17 September 2014Stranger’s Dining Room, NSW Parliament House, Sydney Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, and friends: Good evening and a very special welcome to: The Hon. Julie Bishop, Minister...
Telemala is in West New Britain. The Rev. AE Brawn was the father of Eda Oakes. We left Malalia (near Cape Hoskins) on 20 December for Walo—a five hour boat trip—and met the carriers...
Many PNGAA members would like to give new life to personal or family archival papers. Here is how to do it! I persuaded my 90 year old mother-in-law, Marjorie, not to throw out a...
Out in the PNG bush well away from the obtrusive light of town supplies, the clear night sky presented a wondrously beautiful spectacle. The stars glittering in their multitudes seemed much closer there than...
In the early 50s Dick Armstrong had a second-hand shop in Cutherbertson Street, Port Moresby, next door to the Police Court. I remember wandering in one morning and looking around. “Dick! How much is...
Early in my schoolboy days of stamp-collecting I came across Australian stamps overprinted ‘N.W. Pacific Islands. This was a puzzler: what islands did Australia ever administer in the North-West Pacific? It took years to...
(Published in Una Voce, December 1999, page 16) 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....
I read with pleasure the article by Florence Cohen in Una Voce No. 4 December 2010 about the Rabaul Art Society in which she mentioned my late father, Sir William Dargie, who judged the...
Sialum Patrol Post was situated on the north-eastern tip of the Huon Peninsular about 60 miles north of Finschhafen, the sub district headquarters. I say ‘about 60 miles’ because the Lutheran Missionary at Kalasa...
In 1960 I was appointed Principal at Gon Primary (T) School on the outskirts of Kundiawa in the Eastern Highlands after twelve months at Henganofi. Students came from all over the district and slept...
