Further Recollections of a Plantation Manager
Further Recollections of a Plantation Manager Ian Smith Being sent by WR Carpenter, the company I worked for, as a relieving manager to any one of their 30 copra and cocoa plantations one could...
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Family Farm to PNG Development Bank—Story of a Didiman – PNGK Sept 2021
Murrough Benson—Part Nine As early as 1970 the Development Bank recognised that in order to help promote more rapid development of the country it would be necessary for the Bank itself to become involved...
A Memorable Experience PNGK Sep 2021
Kiunga Sub-District, North Fly District BILL (JW) Gornall, Didiman—Part Four The northern section of the Kiunga Sub District (SD) rises up from 100 feet above sea level at Kiunga to 12,000 ft (3,700m) along...
ASEAN agriculture visa undermines Pacific Seasonal Workers Program
A new farm work visa will be offered to residents from 10 South-East Asian countries to help Australian farmers harvest their crops. These include Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Brunei...
A Memorable Experience by BILL (JW) Gornall, Didiman—Part Three PNGK June 2021
Kiunga Sub-District, North Fly District On transfer from Kandrian (West New Britain District), and after visiting Regional Office (Syd Saville was Regional Rural Development Officer (RRDO), followed by Fred Kleckham and Mick Belfield) and...
Food Forests of West New Britain PETER STACE – PNGK June 2021
‘Food Forests.’ I know about that! I have seen food forests before! I saw them in Papua New Guinea, on the Oil Palm West New Britain scheme in 1968. This article stimulated my memory...
Family Farm to PNG Development Bank—Story of a Didiman MURROUGH BENSON—Part Eight – PNGK June 2021
My role with the Development Bank quickly expanded to undertaking field appraisals of new loan applications for large-scale rural enterprises and regular reviews of existing facilities. Most of these properties were owned and operated...
Family Farm to PNG Development Bank – Story of a Didiman (Part Six)
Acting as the local vet was another responsibility I had at Murua. With the support of Joy and her nursing experience, we managed to keep our donkeys, horses, cattle and pigs in good health....
The Christmas of 1968: The Longest Ever
… I’ve seen Santa. He has fuzzy brown hair, brown skin, a laplap around his waist and bare feet; and there was not one scrap of red winter apparel with white trim on him...
Niugini Arabica Coffee to buy!
When the founders of Niugini Arabica Coffee worked in Papua New Guinea, they fell in love with the coffee…and we all know that the fertile highlands are home to the best coffee in the...
There Are Buffalo on Selapiu Island – Sept 2020 Kundu
‘Karabau em i dai pinis!’ (The buffalo is dead!) the men shouted with great excitement. At the time I was a brand new ‘didiman’ and had been given instructions to shoot a buffalo. We...
Family Farm to PNG Development Bank—Story of a Didiman – Part FIVE – Sept 2020 Kundu
The morning of 12 February 1970 saw Joy and me winging our way from Brisbane to Port Moresby, a three-hour trip that had us scheduled to touch down at midday. We arrived pretty much...
Family Farm to PNG Development Bank – Story of a Didiman – Part Four
February 1968 saw me back in Kundiawa, administrative centre of the Chimbu District, after my first leave of three months. I actually returned about a week earlier than originally planned, constrained by a broken...
A Didiman’s Diary (Part 3)
For 13 July 1957 my Field Officers Journal notes: ‘departed Goroka for Chimbu per Territory Airlines (TAL) DH84 (Dragon) charter’ and in my letter home: ‘a full charter, 1050 lbs to shift myself,...
A Didiman’s Diary (Part 2)
The nearly 10 years in the Territory had an enormous number of highlights. Great friendships; lengthy patrols into areas of contrast – to those of little or no development or contact and to areas...
