Book Reviews
Book Reviews: Courage In the Skies by Jim Eames; The Northumbrian Kiap by Robert Forster; Solomon Islanders in World War II by Anna Annie Kwai; LIGHT by Anne McCosker; The Volcano’s Wife by Amalia Cowley &...
Issue: 2018 3 September Una Voce
Vale – Una Voce Sept 2018
Vale : AURICHT, Dr Clive OAM; COLE, Rob (Bob); DICKSON-WAIKO, Anne; DARCEY, Brian Frank; LAMING, Bruce; LEHMANN, Bruce Victor; MENNIS, Brian; RUTHERFORD, Josephine; SAVAGE, Colin; SWEENEY, Jack. AURICHT, Dr Clive OAM D. 10 March 2018 Dr Clive Auricht sadly...
On Australian Soil and Lantana Springbrook Anzac Day 2018 by Doug Robbins (ex-Kiap)
The past year marked 75 years since sadly too many Australian lives were lost during World War II fighting in the South West Pacific Area – on Australian soil. Following Pearl Harbour, Darwin at...
The PNG Earthquakes of 2018 Peter D. Dwyer and Monica Minnegal
The epicentre of the massive earthquake of 26 February 2018 was near the highland town of Komo, in the Karius Range and about 10 km south of the conditioning plant of the PNG Liquefied...
Lost at Sea
Here is a letter sent by Don Marshall to Rev. Brawn in 1969. Rev. Brawn is my wife Edna’s father. I would call the letter “Lost at Sea”. I have spoken to Don Marshall...
CULT by Maurice Meth
(submitted by Maurice’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Meth) Continued from previous issue Chapter Four The trading economy from the eighties has moved on to a far more robust model with the change of supply of...
South Australian Museum Expedition to New Guinea Mainly New Ireland, 1918 by Jim Ridges
The Director of the South Australian Museum (SAM) Edgar Ravenswood Waite, in 1918 led an expedition, grandly named the North-West Pacific Expedition, departing Sydney 31st May on SS Marsina, returning Sydney 1st September on...
Joan Stobo’s visit to Rabaul, April 2010 by Sally Stobo
In April 2010, Joan Stobo had the delight of returning to Rabaul with three of her children, and three grandchildren aboard MV Orion. ‘It had been 42 years since she lived there and her...
‘The Sepik’ by Laurie Bragge: Review by Chris Warrillow
One of the five door prizes at the biennial Cairns “X-Kiaps, Families and Friends Reunion” event was a penultimate-draft set of the six-volume history of The Sepik which has been a labour of love...
My Friend Maia Awak by Mary Mennis MBE
Maia Awak was one of the few old New Guineans who knew the year of his birth. He was born in 1904 when Madang was part of German New Guinea. It was the year...
Mount Giluwe by Graham Hardy
A recent ABC TV news item regarding a move to develop Mt. Giluwe as a tourist destination caught my attention; it stirred up memories of my own experience in the early 1960s as a...
Some of our Airmen are Still Missing by Robert (Bob) Piper.
There are hundreds of allied aircraft and their crews still missing in the South West Pacific from World War II. Flight Lieutenant Barry Mortimer Cox as well as Sgt Ron Bailey, both of 75...
Breakfast by the Sea by Belinda Macartney
In May 2018 I was fortunate to go to Townsville to attend a fundraising breakfast for Youth With A Mission (YWAM). While I was pleased to see some faces and places I knew from...
My Time in Papua New Guinea with the Balus Project by Doug Roser FIE (Aust) FRAeS
While I had visited Papua New Guinea for short periods over the years I was particularly fortunate to spend a number of years working fulltime there during the late 1990s and early 2000. I...
Cooking: The Curious Culinary Secrets of PNG’s Last Cannibalistic Tribe by Ian Lloyd Neubauer
For centuries, cannibalism was not only part of tribal life in Papua New Guinea but a central part of religion. When European colonialists arrived in the late 19th century, cannibalism was outlawed. The last...
