Tour de New Ireland Cycling event – Boluminski Highway
11 April 2019 marked the opening of upgrades to the Boluminski Highway in New Ireland – a project led by the Papua New Guinea Department of Works and funded by the PNG-AusPartnership. As part...
Category: Landfall experiences
How and When New Guinea was Won – and the Loss of AE1 By GPO HH Kemsley
First published in Una Voce, journal of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc, June 2009 page 46 – with thanks to Jim Kemsley These extracts were taken from the diary of Petty...
Thomas Arthur Steen: Part 2 By Bessie Steen
Whilst on leave as a result of a routine chest x ray for T.B. a heart defect was found. Tom was operated on at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney in March 1964. He was unable...
Plantation Life by Ralph Sawyer
Plantation life is largely the untold story of TPNG. There are several reasons for this. Plantation owners and managers were practical doers rather than reporters and recorders. Clearing, planting, harvesting and labour management were...
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...
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 Wau...
