The Kiaps Compendium – Part 1: The end of an era
The outside men | Ivan Francis Champion, OBE| Louis James (Jim) O’Malley | Patrol Into Yesterday | Jack Hides, Son of Papua James Sinclair, Una Voce No 1, March 1992 The death of Jim...
Category: People & Places
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 6: Profiles of career Kiaps
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 Kiaps Compendium – Part 5: And then it was all over
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...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 4: Netherlands New Guinea
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...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 3 Provisional Administration
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...
Vale September 2015
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Tribute to Lorna Johnston: John Schindler
I feel it a great honor to be asked to write this tribute to Lorna Johnston. I am writing this as both a Producer of the documentary The Tragedy of the Montevideo Maru,and also...
Tribute to Merle Wall, MBE
Merle, an admired mentor and friend to the people of Bougainville and a great supporter of her church and family, died on 5 September 2013, aged 85 years. Merle was born on 23 March...
Tribute to Florence May Cohen: Julie Cohen
Florence was born in Taralga on 5 June 1926 and died in Cairns on 18 September 2013: my birthday. Unusually, her timing was dreadful and my birthday will never be the same again. Florence...
Waste not: Denis Compston
I was manager of Potsdam Plantation for four years in the early 60s and no doubt a few readers of Una Voce will have read some of my short stories of plantation life. otsdam...
David Montgomery, AM: Toby Rose, AO, and Jack White, OAM
After gaining his Diploma in Agriculture from Hawkesbury Agricultural College in 1955, David was employed by the Department of Agriculture Stock and Fisheries (DASF) from 1956 to 1965. During this time David and Gillian...
Tribute to Lorna (Whyte) Johnston: Andre Heuber
This tribute to Lorna was written by Andre Hueber, on the occasion of Lorna returning to Japan to receive an official apology from the Japanese government. It was originally printed in The Aucklander newspaper...
Waste not: Denis Compston
I was manager of Potsdam Plantation for four years in the early 60s and no doubt a few readers of Una Voce will have read some of my short stories of plantation life. otsdam...
Kiunga rubber 40 years later: George Greenwood
Recently my wife and I returned to Kiunga after 40-odd years to see the results of my planting the first rubber in Kiunga. The Honourable Warren Dutton, OBE, and his delightful wife Joy’s hospitality...
