Vale – Una Voce June 2017
BREDMEYER, Theo | HUHUME, Susan Karike | KENNEDY, Leo William (Brother Iggy) | Marett, Terence L BREDMEYER, Theo D. 25 September, 2016 THEO BREDMEYER’S STORY In the Vale section Una Voce December 2016,...
BREDMEYER, Theo | HUHUME, Susan Karike | KENNEDY, Leo William (Brother Iggy) | Marett, Terence L BREDMEYER, Theo D. 25 September, 2016 THEO BREDMEYER’S STORY In the Vale section Una Voce December 2016,...
SEPIK EXPEDITION (27.12.2016 – 2.01.2017) Reflections by Dame Carol Kidu DBE Dr (Hons) (Part one 27-28 December 2016) The mighty Sepik River – that’s how I described it before embarking on the Kalibobo Spirit...
It was the first Australian town ever to be attacked. Japanese aircraft carriers and bombers were involved, the end result was devastation and many hundreds of Australian civilians and soldiers killed. You’re probably thinking...
A continuing story of transfers, travels and the testing times of an Agricultural Extension Officer in Papua New Guinea. 5 January 1960. I flew into Maprik, from my previous posting at Aitape, and took...
The time has come to say ’au revoir’ to our President, Andrea Williams who, by the terms of PNGAA’s Constitution, is required to step down from the position she has so competently occupied these...
Flew side-saddle Lae to Madang via Goroka in a chartered DC3 with Mandated Airlines Captain Tom DEEGAN, First Officer Jim SMITH. The aircraft was loaded with drums of fuel distillate and motor spirit (chartered...
Having read David Montgomery’s recent ‘A Didiman’s Diary’ and noted his observation about the prevalence of kiap stories in Una Voce, I thought it was time that I put pen to paper and say...
The year 2017 will be marked by remembering the 75th anniversary of terrible events to our north. We have already seen formal anniversary services for the fall of Singapore and the bombing of Darwin....
My father, The Reverend Thomas Nevison Simpson, died in early 1942. The official (but disputed) story of his death is that he was aboard the Japanese prisoner of war ship ‘Montevideo Maru’ that sailed...
CONT from Dec issue So now I am becoming increasingly apprehensive about my excursion to the Trobriands: with no language skills, and unable to leave the island until the arrival of the next plane...
In October 1959, I arrived in Kairuku on Yule Island as a Cadet Patrol Officer. ADO Ken Brown instructed me to accompany him and Patrol Officer Pat Dwyer to Inawaia on the mainland, in...
I arrived in Lae New Guinea at the age of six from Brisbane around 1956 on a DC3 with side-saddle seats, accompanied my mother Marjorie Miller, my brother Peter aged 12, and my sister...
Whilst on leave as a result of a routine chest x ray for T.B. a heart defect was found. Tom was operated on at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney in March 1964. He was unable...
Australian Community Centre for Pacific Nations PNGAA and others interested are awaiting decisions by the Harbour Trust and the NSW National Parks (NPWS) about whether the Draft Management Plan for the Middle Head/ASOPA precinct...