VALES & TRIBUTES
ASHTON | HOOK | MC DONALD | OAKES | PAUL | QUINLIVAN | CAHILL ASHTON, Jeremy Claude 24 November 2022 Jeremy Ashton, born in July 1930, was educated at Winchester School and graduated MA...
Category: People & Places
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...
Harry West: “Gentle Man and Gentleman” – Fred Kaad Una Voce June 2008
That’s how PNGAA Patron Fred Kaad OBE described Harry West when asking the Annual General Meeting in Sydney in April to create Harry an Honorary Life Member. Fred went on to pay Harry the...
VALE JUNE 2003
ABRAHAM, Eric (Abe) (20 April 1898 – 20 March 2003, aged 104 | BAGLEY, Emese (11 March 2003) |BRIGHTWELL, Merton Walter (Mert) (18 March 2003, aged 81) | BROMAN, Peter Alfred (23 March 2003,...
VALES & TRIBUTES – September 2022
ATKINS, Geoffrey Paul | BARTER, Sir Peter Leslie Charles | BAULCH, John Richard | COOTE Eric | DONOVAN, Rod | FAVETTA, Fulvio Sergio Renato (Fif) | FENBURY (nee Sheils), Helen Mary |...
Are These PNG’s Oldest Surviving Mission Buildings?
David Wetherell In 1872 the vessel, John Knox, under Carl Thorngren, lost its way and landed in Milne Bay while carrying Lifuans from the Loyalty Islands to the Torres Strait Islands mission of the London...
June Lovina Whittaker AM by Gaynor Kaad
TEACHER, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR, FARMER & FRIEND Part 1 June Whittaker, who died on 8 February 2022, was a long-standing staff member of the Australian School of Pacific Administration/International Training Institute (ASOPA/ITI), a frequent visitor...
Astrolabe Bay
Des Pike I was a kiap for ten years (1964–74) in what was then the Madang District of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. District headquarters were at Madang on the northern arm...
Tim & Judy Terrell
A kiap and a secretary —an enduring love HOLLY NORTHAM We are proud to share a little about the lives of our adored parents, Tim and Judy Terrell—and to frame their legacy that is...
The Flying Cowboy
SQUADRON LEADER PETER TURNBULL DFC He was called ‘The Flying Cowboy’ and was known for his ‘magnificent fighting spirit and great skill’ during the Second World War but, to his family, Squadron Leader Peter...
