PNG Trade Winds blew East West East and trade in sea cargo followed the same way in expansion through plantations and their trading stations or ports. ECONOMIC HISTORY AND INFRASTRUCTURE Preamble This preamble is...
Chris Warrillow’s letter in Una Voce (2017, No. 3 – September) regarding Kairuku village in the Upper Purari got me thinking of a series of events that I recalled over several years from 1950...
The PNGAA congratulates Rear Admiral Peter Briggs and his team on the Fugro Survey for the successful expedition and huge achievement in locating AE1. The disappearance of AE1 was the first loss for the...
We are staring at starvation. Yesterday the carriers finished their last bag of rice. One of them is now wearing the bag for warmth. At last we have crossed that murderous limestone country. The...
My stint as a teacher in various PNG government schools ranged over the Central, Western and Northern (Oro) districts, a seven-year experience that coincided with the Second Vatican Council (1962-5) and its aftermath. Pope...
Way back in 1931, Papua New Guinea set a world record in the amount of air cargo carried – 2,607 passengers and 3,947 tonnes of freight. The discovery of gold in the Bulolo Valley...
BODMAN, Henry; BURFOOT, Geoffrey Robert; BUTLER, Leo Matthew; COOTE, Margaret McCausland; FLETCHER, Lekei; GIBSON, Warren Leslie; JOHNSON, David; MARTIN, (John) Des; McLAY, Alan John; MIDDLETON, Sir John KT OBE; NOBBS, Ken; PFUND, Kurt;...
South Pacific Air War, Volume 1, The Fall of Rabaul, December 1941-March 1942 by Michael Claringbould and Peter Ingram; published 2017 through Avonmore Books, Kent Town, South Australia; ISBN:978-0-9945889-4-4; softback; 250 pages, full colour...
Maroochy Surf Club, Maroochydore, Tuesday 17th October 2017 Thank you to Jan Sinclair for giving me the honour and privilege of being able to say a few words at this Tribute to Jim. For...
Margaret McCausland COOTE, nee Hamilton (14 March 1925 – 7 January 2018, aged 92 years) Margaret was born in the family home at Mascot to Edna and Robert (Bob) Hamilton, spending her early years...
