This story is about Patrol Post X in Papua New Guinea and how, in the mid-1950s, the Patrol Officer (PO) of the Department of Native Affairs had to manipulate the law, public monies, government...
Former Assistant Patrol Officer, Aiome and Usino Patrol Posts, Madang District, 1968 to 1970 I’m sure many PNG Kundu readers can recall occasions in their lives that we would have no problem classing as...
Fred Pratt is a surveyor and engineer who lived and worked in PNG from 1961 to 2014. He worked at Ok Tedi over the period 1969–83, and again briefly in 2014, and tells the...
Kandrian Station, a small outpost on the south-west coast of West New Britain. I arrived there on 21 November 1967 from Talasea, where I had spent five months in introductory work under the tutelage...
The colourful butterflies of PNG add to this extraordinary country’s beauty and colour. This is a rare opportunity to see Bob Gotts’ amazing collection! Bob Gotts went to PNG to teach and spent 60...
PNGAA members have a special opportunity to visit the NFSA and experience film footage on Papua New Guinea including sound and still images. There is a range of fascinating material starting from the 1930s...
Papua New Guinea was my home from February 1966 until September 1977, initially as a didiman (agricultural officer) and then with the PNG Development Bank as a rural officer. This instalment traces the first...
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...
Joan Dwyer turned ninety-two in November 2018. She was a patrol officer’s wife in Papua New Guinea for almost two decades—resourceful, friendly and determined, she lived in three countries, but Papua New Guinea was...
The story continues from Una Voce, June 2018, of new experiences, challenges and developments in the West New Britain District. I finished off in June saying there was a need to explain patrol necessities—mattresses,...
Continued from 2017, No. 4 – December issue pp 14-16 July 1960. Another posting, another piece of paradise. Prior to going on three months leave in March I advised head office of plans to...
Chris Warrillow’s letter in Una Voce (2017, No. 3 – September) regarding Kairuku village in the Upper Purari got me thinking of a series of events that I recalled over several years from 1950...
We are staring at starvation. Yesterday the carriers finished their last bag of rice. One of them is now wearing the bag for warmth. At last we have crossed that murderous limestone country. The...
Chris Warrillow’s letter in Una Voce Sept. 2017 regarding Kairuku village in the Upper Purari got me thinking of a series of events over several years from 1950 to 1954 which culminated in a...
A continuing story of transfers, travels and the testing times of an Agricultural Extension Officer in Papua New Guinea. 5 January 1960. I flew into Maprik, from my previous posting at Aitape, and took...
