Category: Political Development

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The King against Peter James Jameson (Kavieng, 14-22 February 1952) was my very first trial in TPNG and the only one in which I faced two lawyers defending the one man....

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In the Jameson Case I produced evidence that he had used several different schemes for stealing the money, all of them directed against village people and never against European or Asian...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots God alone knows how often Monte hammered home the ‘Expulsion of Undesirables’ warning before I arrived in TPNG but he returned to it (so as to make sure that it was...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Not that it was only Monte who was talking about deportation and “undesirables”. The case of Queen against Donald Drury (no relation to the then Director of Civil Aviation) was the...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In previous Snapshots I have described certain roneoed sheets so that, if you come across one when clearing out an old collection of papers, you will think twice before you throw...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots There can be no better indication of the difference between the early 50s and, say, the mid 60s and 70s than the report in The South Pacific Post, in its issue...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The Commonwealth Grant paid for all Administration expenses including salaries, housing, hospitals, roads, bridges, schools, ships, prisons, etc., but there are (amongst many others) four special items of expenditure in the...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Librarian Ruth Carter (who referred to herself as ‘The Original Lady Who Lived in a Lavatory’ because the library had been an Officers’ Club during the war and she had converted...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In regard to Papua my task was very different. I simply had to read Murray Groves’ conclusion (p. 588 n. 39) where he said: “On the general question of native attitudes...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Because of the poor food generally available, people used to pool their resources when something special was on. The arrival, in March 1954, of the first new judge of the Supreme...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots On my first circuit (January-May 1952) I found copies of this report at many Government Stations because the judges wanted it used as a precedent where cases arose in areas the...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The Ela Beach Discussion Group did not let me get away with my simple statement that Murray Groves’ evidence was of inestimable value. There were 14 members present and several said,...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots   I could give any number of cases which proved how deeply Kiaps had taken to heart Monte’s lectures about the difference in their exercise of the various functions which they...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Tessa Jones’ wonderful sharing of her mother’s memories (Una Voce No. 4 of 2000), particularly those of Beatrice Grimshaw wearing long black boots when she sat at table for morning tea,...

Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots BSeveral members have remarked on my comment, in Snapshot No. 22, that Mert Brightwell obtained ‘a well-deserved acquittal’ in the case against Meka-Ori and they have asked whether there were other...