Hamamas Hotel has its own currency: Maxwell R Hayes
When in Rabaul in August 2003 and staying at the Hamamas Hotel, in what remained of Mango Avenue after the 1994 volcanic eruption, I noticed some unusual coins in usage by those local citizens...
Category: People & Places
PNG’s second GG dies: Sir Tore Lokoloko
Sir Tore LOKOLOKO GCL, GCMG, GCVO, OBE (21 September 1930 to 13 March 2013) was the second Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, from 1977 to 1983. Sir Tore was born in Iokea in the...
Des Martin receives PNG medal: Wally Johnson
On 3 March 2015 Des Martin was presented with the PNG medal of the Order of Logohu (Bird of Paradise) in a ceremony in Brisbane. Magdalene Moi-He, the PNG Consulate General in Brisbane, presented...
Christopher Viner-Smith, OAM: Chips Mackellar
Christopher Viner-Smith was named in the 2015 Australia Day Honours list, with the citation: The Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division, for services to community history particularly through securing recognition...
Maria Von Trapp in PNG: Mary Mennis
On a Web site of the Rabaul E-Course, the question was recently asked whether a member of the famous Von Trapp Sound of Music Family were on one of the E-Courses. Yes it was...
A portrait of Maria von Trapp: Alan Ross
Those who read Mary Mennis’s interesting article on Maria Von Trapp might like to view a closer photograph of Maria. During the 1960s my wife Helen struck up a warm relationship with Maria. Maria...
Barry Blyth Holloway: Champion of PNG Independence
Sir Barry Blyth Holloway. Patrol officer and Papua New Guinea politician. Born Kimberley, Tasmania, 26 September 1934. Died Brisbane, 16 January, aged 78. The generation of Australians who grew up in the 1940s and...
Richard Kyle Gault: Ros Gault
Richard Kyle Gault(known to all in PNG as “Dick” Gault) was born at Ardmee, 146 Belair Road, Hawthorn (Lower Mitcham), South Australia, to Dr Arthur Kyle Gault (“Kyle”) and Ruth Marjorie Hawker. He was...
Matt Foley
Matt Foley was one of the two remaining former Australian coastwatchers who served in Papua New Guinea during World War II has died. He was 91. Foley lived in Rabaul, in East New Britain...
Badihagwa Cemetery, Port Moresby: Chris Warrillow
My first interest in the old “European cemetery” dates back to the late 1980s when fellow-former kiap and friend Dave Henton and I decided to locate former Lieutenant Governor Sir John Hubert Plunkett (“Judge”)...
Badihagwa Cemetery, Port Moresby: Chris Warrillow
My first interest in the old “European cemetery” dates back to the late 1980s when fellow-former kiap and friend Dave Henton and I decided to locate former Lieutenant Governor Sir John Hubert Plunkett (“Judge”)...
Brian John Holloway, CBE, QPM
Brian was born on 31 July 1927, in Adelaide, South Australia. He was the third and last surviving son of Percy Holloway, KPM, and Mabel Holloway of Adelaide. Brian married the love of his...
Harry West, OAM, 23 July 1922—12 July 2015: Andrea Williams
The Papua New Guinea Association of Australia advises that long time President, Harry West, OAM, has died at the age of nearly 93 years. Loved and highly respected, Harry steered the PNGAA for 26...
End of a Pacific era: Ken McGregor
Stuart Inder, MBE, was the most authoritative journalist, editor and publisher in Australia of the South Pacific Islands from the early 1950s into the mid 1980s. His contacts were extensive, inside and outside these...
Outside—The life of CTJ “Bill” Adamson: Michael Bird
Charles Thomas Johnston (“Bill”) Adamson was born on 17 January 1901 between the proclamation of Australian Federation on 1 January and the first Federal election in March. Bill’s father was Charles Adamson, an Australian...
