Jimi River memories: Peter Skinner
Tabibuga in the Jimi River was one of the more far-flung patrol posts in Western Highlands District while my father Ian Skinner was DC during the mid-to-late 1950s and, while most of the time...
Tabibuga in the Jimi River was one of the more far-flung patrol posts in Western Highlands District while my father Ian Skinner was DC during the mid-to-late 1950s and, while most of the time...
In 1963 I qualified as a health inspector but did not get a job until a year later with the NSW Government. As a newly appointed officer I had to go through an office...
From 1963 to 1965 I was in command of the small naval cargo ship HMAS Banks in PNG waters. Later, in 1970, I had a year in HMAS Aitape commanding the PNG Patrol Boat...
Witnessed and written by Marjorie Surtees Kleckham, wife of the district agricultural officer Fred Kleckham At the time Marjorie and Fred Kleckham were living at the Popondetta Agricultural Station. They had three children Fred...
Shared thoughts with those who have known Papua New Guinea Lines written following a return visit, after twenty-one years, to the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea One awakes, the memory of so many...
In 1963 I qualified as a health inspector but did not get a job until a year later with the NSW Government. As a newly appointed officer I had to go through an office...
From 1963 to 1965 I was in command of the small naval cargo ship HMAS Banks in PNG waters. Later, in 1970, I had a year in HMAS Aitape commanding the PNG Patrol Boat...
The 1950s in the Morobe District was a time of major growth. The construction of the Markham Bridge at Markham Point was undertaken by Hornibrooks Constructions Ltd and became a major contributor to growth....
Shared thoughts with those who have known Papua New Guinea Lines written following a return visit, after twenty-one years, to the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea One awakes, the memory of so many...
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...
The 1950s in the Morobe District was a time of major growth. The construction of the Markham Bridge at Markham Point was undertaken by Hornibrooks Constructions Ltd and became a major contributor to growth....
In my article Cruise to Rabaul, I ended saying how I had found, among the people I met, “…an eagerness for the upcoming elections and the hope that a new government could set PNG...