Prior to the Australian military occupation of German Neuguinea in September 1914, Kawieng in Neu Mecklenburg (as the Germans called New Ireland) was just a small, but very busy and increasingly important settlement and...
(Part two …to be continued) 29th December 2016 Early morning on the 29th we raised anchor and passed Angoram District Headquarters. I had often heard of the mighty Sepik River but I already knew...
Gordon Dick, PNG agriculturalist with an aversion for authority PETER DANIELS | Port Macquarie News With acknowledgement to: Keith Jackson & Friends: PNG ATTITUDE GORDON Dick, who has died in Port Macquarie aged 82,...
I worked with Gus Smales on and off in Port Moresby and Rabaul right through the 1960s and early 1970s. I was more of a sports writer than a politics scribe but even so...
The year 1942 is remembered for many tragic and also heroic events that WWII brought to the (then) Mandated Territory of New Guinea and Australian Territory of Papua. These included the Tol massacre as...
By XXXX Through the strange by-ways of history, I recently came across a novel called What became of the White Savage by a Francois Garde, which was published in France in 2012 and which...
Over several issues, we have enjoyed the recollections of Gordon Dick, Principal of Vudal Agricultural College in 1970. This is his final instalment. Recollection Ten: Living with Tension The October evictions were...
Early years Peter was born in Samarai, PNG, in 1926 to Rhoda and Philip Coote. After a few years in Samarai the family moved to Rabaul where Philip became Company Manager of Burns Philp....
CONTINUED… After less than a year at Keravat I was transferred to Utu (Kavieng), a place that brings a tear to my eye when I think about it. I had to take stock, order...
Soon after returning home from completing Year 12 at High School in Brisbane my daughter Melanie accepted a position, in 1995, as the first Supervisor of the Gold Club of the Lamana Hotel in...
The article in Una Voce, June 2017, which was “VALE – Bredmeyer, Theo…” written by Neville Threlfall, stirred memories of my time in TPNG. Similar to Theo I too commenced work in TPNG, aged...
75 years ago, in January 1942, Rabaul was Australia’s front line in the Pacific war. This was a war fought on Australian soil against Australian people, both soldiers and civilians…a critical period in the...
