Travel in the Land of the Unexpected
In October 2014 I was working at Bobcat drill rig as camp manager. Bobcat was located in the jungle in the middle of Gulf Province in Papua New Guinea and the only way in...
Category: Transport
Didiman’s Diary #11 by David Montgomery
The story continues from Una Voce, March 2019, of new experiences, challenges and developments in West New Britain. One of the delights of tropical living, and the indigenous people’s skill as gardeners, was the...
The Best Beer I Ever Tasted by Chips Mackellar
On page 11 of the March 2019 edition of Una Voce, mention is made of the Star Mountains Patrol, conducted by Assistant District Officer Jim Kent from 22 September to 22 December 1954. This...
The Air Mail Gets Through by Robert (Bob) Piper
In 1939 a letter carried by a fleeing German pilot, in a stolen aircraft in New Guinea, amazingly reached its destination safely in Melbourne. The now famous correspondence was sent by Patrol Officer Leigh...
Flying High in Papua New Guinea by Peter Rogers
It is always hard to describe flying in PNG to someone who has never been there and done that. It is exhilarating, demanding, difficult, and sometimes dangerous. The wreckage of numerous aircraft still littering...
Captain Jack Radley And The Heyday Of The Fleet. The Story Of The Adventist Mission Boats In The South Seas.
My cousin, Rose-Marie Radley, has written this book about her father and his vital connection with the Seventh-Day Adventist Mission boats. Submitted by Warren Martin The book is soft cover and 402 pages. Available...
CULT by Maurice Meth
(submitted by Maurice’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Meth) Continued from previous issue Chapter Four The trading economy from the eighties has moved on to a far more robust model with the change of supply of...
My Time in Papua New Guinea with the Balus Project by Doug Roser FIE (Aust) FRAeS
While I had visited Papua New Guinea for short periods over the years I was particularly fortunate to spend a number of years working fulltime there during the late 1990s and early 2000. I...
Cult (continued) Chapters 2 and 3 by Maurice Meth
(Submitted by Maurice’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Meth) PNG Trade Winds blew East West East and trade in sea cargo followed the same way in expansion through plantations and their trading stations or ports. SHIPPING...
CULT By Maurice Meth. (Submitted by Maurice’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Meth)
PNG Trade Winds blew East West East and trade in sea cargo followed the same way in expansion through plantations and their trading stations or ports. ECONOMIC HISTORY AND INFRASTRUCTURE Preamble This preamble is...
When PNG Led the World in the Delivery of Air Freight by Robert L Parer CMG.MBE.
Way back in 1931, Papua New Guinea set a world record in the amount of air cargo carried – 2,607 passengers and 3,947 tonnes of freight. The discovery of gold in the Bulolo Valley...
Kavieng, New Ireland, Overseas Wharf in 1917 by Jim Ridges
Prior to the Australian military occupation of German Neuguinea in September 1914, Kawieng in Neu Mecklenburg (as the Germans called New Ireland) was just a small, but very busy and increasingly important settlement and...
Pacific Islands Monthly – digitised by the NLA and now in Trove!
The National Library has recently completed the digitisation of the entire run of the Pacific Islands Monthly magazine and all of the issues can be browsed or the text fully searched on Trove.
Over Rabaul in a Beaufort
by Frank Smyth WINGS correspondent who flew with the squadrons. This wartime story is reprinted from WINGS, 23 January 1945. Down through the Markham Valley passed squadrons of Beauforts to join another squadron in...
Aviation photographs
Dennis Gray’s contribution is a compilation of photographs taken by his Uncle, Bill Gray (circa 1935-41), his father, Charles Gray (circa 1940-41), and himself during 1969-73. It is a wonderful collection of aviation history...
