Sanguma Nescafé: David Fopp
It was the mid-70s and a conference was being held in a village on the shores of Hansa Bay. The topic was how to encourage villagers to take a more active role in the...
It was the mid-70s and a conference was being held in a village on the shores of Hansa Bay. The topic was how to encourage villagers to take a more active role in the...
The year I undertook a reconnaissance of the Jimi Valley pine stands in the Western Highlands District (see here) saw me as well in the eastern extremities of the Highlands. In the months of...
My encounter with TPNG began in 1955 when I was studying Agricultural Science in Perth at the University of WA. After two years as a student, finances were at low ebb and it was...
During 2007 I visited Porgera on three occasions to assist the Porgera Development Association. Porgera is situated in the highlands PNG. The following item details some of my activities and thoughts regarding the future...
John Browne’s account of his period at Nondugl in the mid-1950s (Una Voce. June 2013) aroused memories of the three years my wife and I spent there ten years later. John indicated the difficulties...
In one’s life there is always the unexpected that happens when you least expect it, and it can have a lasting effect on you and this can be in any shape or form. Some...
I was interested in the stories on Nondugl in the past two issues of Una Voce. I was there in 1972 with John Munul, a young economics graduate of UPNG, one of the first,...
The town of Rabaul is this year celebrating the centenary of its becoming the capital of German New Guinea under its present name: it was originally begun as Simpsonhafen. The following information about its...
The year I undertook a reconnaissance of the Jimi Valley pine stands in the Western Highlands District (see here) saw me as well in the eastern extremities of the Highlands. In the months of...
Despite a cancelled Air Niugini flight, we got to Alotau to join the Akademik Shokalskiy with only minutes to spare before she sailed on Saturday 14 April 2012. A converted Russian scientific research ship,...
During 2007 I visited Porgera on three occasions to assist the Porgera Development Association. Porgera is situated in the highlands PNG. The following item details some of my activities and thoughts regarding the future...
The first glimpse of Rabaul after an absence of 35 years was astonishing. Press reports and the occasional visitor had painted a picture of desolation, dust, and permanent destruction. The lovely Rabaul that we...
Pat Murray was formerly of Baia Plantation, New Ireland, PNG Patricia Audrey Murray (née Stanfield) was born on 5 September 1922 in Naini Tal, in India. Her parents, Ernest and Audrey Stanfield, left India...
(Published Una Voce, March 1999, page 7) Malcolm (Chips) MacKellar 1953-1955 CPO Daru and Lake Murray (Western District) 1955-1956 P.O. Mount Hagen (Western Highlands District) 1957 ASOPA Long Course 1958-1964 PO at Madang and...
At the time of Roma’s death, we were not members of the ROAPNG, and no notice was submitted to the Vale section of Una Voce. A belated tribute is given here, for one whose...