Category: People & Places

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Watabung Primary School: Trevor Freestone

All the schools in the Highlands in the sixties and seventies had a major problem. Only one-fifth of your year six children, if they passed the external exam, would be able to progress onto...

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My life after 1941: George Oakes

After we left Kavieng in New Ireland, the Macdhui took us to Sydney where we moved in with my mother’s parents at Lindfield where my grandfather, Rev. G. E. Johnson, was the Methodist minister....

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Alotau: John Quinn

This article could well be sub-titled How Alotau came to be or even The waste of war, and will take a broad-brush approach to what I am prejudiced in believing is one of the prettiest...

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Margaret Olley: John Pasquarelli

“I have two artist friends from Australia who are coming to the Territory and they will be staying with me in Moresby. Margaret Olley and Douglas Annand are their names and I have told...

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Fifties in Rabaul: Jan Barnes

I arrived in Rabaul in May 1955 having been married two weeks previously to Neville who had been in Rabaul as Brown and Dureau’s agent for the previous 12 months.We left Brisbane at midnight...

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Tribute to Pat Murray: Anne Peters

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...

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The Kukukuku: Chips MacKellar

(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...

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Emirau Island: by Warren Martin

Several traumatic and dramatic incidents occurred on the tiny, insignificant island of Emirau during World War II. Emirau is situated in the St Matthias group, less than 1½ degrees south of the equator. Overshadowed...

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Sir Daniel Leahy: Gordon Dick

I am grateful to Bob Curtis for his contribution on Sir Danny Leahy in the March 2009 Una Voce and feel I would like to add a little about Danny’s life and status and...