Desmond Clifton-Basset | Michael Foley | William James Johnston | Frederick Peter Christian Kaad, OBE | Douglas John Parrish | Peter Sheekey | Royce Arthur Webb, MBE | Harry West Desmond Clifton-Bassett Des was...
The end of another era Through the eyes of a Kiap, Bill Johnston By 1975, kiaps like me were becoming a dying breed. These men had brought the country to the stage of law...
In 1958 Harry West served as the first Australian Liaison Officer in Netherlands New Guinea, based in what was then Hollandia, but he ended by doing much travelling because at that time the Indonesians...
ASOPA | District Services | Kiaps | Culture contact | Telefolmin | Des Clifton-Basset | Lyn Clark | Tribal warfare | Unusual incidents On 30 October a Provisional Civil Administration was restored to Papua...
I gave a show-and-tell (PowerPoint) presentation at the annual luncheon of the South Australian Branch of the PNGAA in Adelaide on 31 October. Jan Kleinig and the Adelaide organising committee asked me to convert...
(Published Una Voce, September 1997, page 19 and in Tales of Papua New Guinea, page 112) Nancy Johnston was wife of the late Bill Johnston who began his career in PNG as a Patrol...
(Being an account of one day in the life of a house-wife at Wau, New Guinea) Part One “Whatever do you do all day?” is the question I have so frequently been asked since...
My first posting away from the coast was at a school about 2 kilometers out of Maprik. An unforgettable feature of the tropical night there was the constant, and for a young expat on...
(Published Una Voce, September 2002, page 24.) Valerie, one of three daughters of Rev. R V Grant, spent her early childhood in the Milne Bay District of Papua (Dobu, Fergusson and Normanby Islands). At...
(Published Una Voce, December 1996 and in Tales of Papua New Guinea, page 157) Malcolm (Chips) MacKellar 1953-1955 CPO Daru and Lake Murray (Western District) 1955-1956 P.O. Mount Hagen (Western Highlands District) 1957 ASOPA...
(Published Una Voce, March 1997, page 15 and in Tales of Papua New Guinea, page 105) Nancy Johnston was wife of the late Bill Johnston who began his career in PNG as a Patrol...
Submitted by George and Edna Oakes “I am afraid we will not have very much Christmas this year.” “No, I am afraid not.” It was the Missionary and his wife who had spoken. They...
In 1974, Mum and Dad came to visit my wife and me at Sialum Patrol Post. Sialum Patrol Post was situated on the north eastern tip of the Huon Peninsular of the then Morobe...
When I was at Sialum, I remember walking along the beach and seeing a bloke from the village (Kwamkwam) nearby, busily pounding two rocks together. I’ll give the gist of what happened next and translate it...
(This is how I remember the TPNG outstation protocols. Other kiaps may have differing recollections.) On a Patrol Post or Sub District Headquarters, the working day in the late 1960s and early 1970s would...
