VALES & TRIBUTES
BEIL | KENNY | OWEN | REDWOOD BEIL, Barry James 14 June 2023 Barry Beil spent 22 years in PNG from 1957 to 1979 and made a significant contribution to its economic development. He...
Category: People & Places
A Night Out Beside the Bunga By IAN WILLIS
On one occasion in 1972 I spent an unforeseen night sleeping out in the tangled Rawlinson Range foothills east of Lae. This was after an unplanned stroll with my University of Technology (Unitech) next-door...
Admiral John Moresby RN
John Moresby was born on 15 March 1830 at Allerford, Somerset, England, second surviving son of Admiral Fairfax Moresby (1786–1877) and his wife Eliza Louisa, née Williams. Educated locally, he joined the Navy at 12...
VALES & TRIBUTES
CLARKE | DWYER JOAN | DWYER PETER | NAMALIU | STENNETT CLARKE, Prue OAM 25 August 2022 Prue was born in Port Moresby on 21 September 1939 and evacuated in 1941 with her mother,...
Papua New Guinea Honours King Charles III and Queen Camilla
Upon independence in 1975, the PNG Constitution granted Queen Elizabeth II the title of Head of State of Papua New Guinea. Upon her death in 2022 and the accession of her son, the Prince...
Unsavoury Plantation Owner Perishes on Montevideo Maru – by Michael White
William Martin Wilkin was born in Witchford, Isle of Eley, England on 17 July 1885, the son of Martin and Sarah Jane (Langford). He had two older sisters, Emily and Matilda, and an older...
Distinguished Service Award to Rev. Neville Threlfall – by Steven Gagau
At a recent Logohu Award Investiture Ceremony Rev. Neville Threlfall was honoured by the award of the Companion of the Star of Melanesia (CSM) for his distinguished services to Papua New Guinea (PNG), especially...
Rotary Sponsored Me in Papua New Guinea – by Suellen Holland
Even though I was born in India, I grew up in Rabaul on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. In 1969 and again in 1970, Rotary International sponsored me to represent...
VALES & TRIBUTES
ASHTON | HOOK | MC DONALD | OAKES | QUINLIVAN | CAHILL | THURECHT ASHTON, Jeremy Claude 24 November 2022 Jeremy Ashton, born in July 1930, was educated at Winchester School and graduated MA at...
The Evacuation of the Sepik: JA Thurston’s April to September 1942 Expedition
Elizabeth Thurston My father-in-law, Jack Thurston, arrived in New Guinea in 1924 to take up a job with the Administration in Kavieng. He had served in the First World War and spent time afterwards...
A Rough Landing
Ken Woodward After three years in Fiji, I got a job as Senior Agricultural Economist with the Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries (DASF). So, at the start of 1971, with my wife Sue...
Dr Pearson, I presume?
Chris Borough With heavy heart, I left the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (PNG) in late 1971. I had so many experiences in the seven years I lived in PNG and wrote a...
VALES & TRIBUTES – December 2022
ASMUSSEN, Alan | MILLS, John | SKINNER, David Ian Scott | Asmussen, Alan (5 July 2022) Alan Asmussen was born in Brisbane in 1938. He went to (then) TPNG in 1960 as a...
June Lovina Whittaker AM – Gaynor kaad
The family’s two-year adventure in the early sixties travelling through Europe and working in the UK and Canada had fuelled June’s desire to explore other countries. In 1972 she had an opportunity to visit...
