In 1966 I was transferred from my remote bush school in the Highlands to Port Moresby to edit the school magazines. At this time the headquarters of government in Papua New Guinea was an...
DENIS LONGHURST: Plantation Papua; PHILLIP BRADLEY: D-Day New Guinea DENIS LONGHURST Plantation Papua We rescued them from what we deemed to be a primitive and dysfunctional existence, gave them a system of our own predilection,...
BAKER, Tony Clarence A | ENSOR, Norman Leslie OAM | FLETCHER, Charles Thomas | HUI, Ping Quan | LAMB, David | LARNER, (née MacGowan), Muriel MBE | MITCHELL, Bevan Charles | O’NEIL, Rita Rosemary | PERRY, Graham Arthur | PETERSEN, Brian...
Here I am, the old dog with a bone! I have come to the conclusion that I must write my version of what happened to the 1st Independent Company in Bougainville. I condensed it...
He loved his adopted country and the people within it—although he retired to Australia, his heart remained in Papua New Guinea, and he retained his PNG citizenship until his passing. Graham Pople’s life work...
The story continues from Una Voce, March 2019, of new experiences, challenges and developments in West New Britain. One of the delights of tropical living, and the indigenous people’s skill as gardeners, was the...
Having just completed my electrical apprenticeship I applied for and was successful in obtaining a position as electrical fitter and mechanic with the Commonwealth Department of Works. I arrived in Port Moresby at 6...
Congratulations are due to Philip Selth for his balanced article on John Joseph Murphy in Una Voce’s March 2019 Issue. ‘The Trials of Mangrove Murphy’ highlights one of the common problems that occurs when...
I arrived in Rabaul in TPNG at the end of 1963 for the 6th E Course. My future wife, Marg, turned up early in 1964, and we married in August of that year. I...
For those people who are not ex-PNG the Tolai people live in the Rabaul area of New Britain. Meri is the Pidgin word for female. Muriel Larner referred to herself as ‘mi Meri Tolai’....
For a Tolai girl growing up in Papua New Guinea between 1960 and 1970, career options were very limited. Forty years ago, that was part of the story for now veteran broadcaster, Caroline Tiriman,...
Papua New Guinea was my home from February 1966 until September 1977, initially as a didiman (agricultural officer) and then with the PNG Development Bank as a rural officer. This instalment traces the first...
Like so many expatriates, I was attracted to Papua New Guinea long before I arrived there. My interest began in England as a high school student in the late 1940s through a world map,...
On page 11 of the March 2019 edition of Una Voce, mention is made of the Star Mountains Patrol, conducted by Assistant District Officer Jim Kent from 22 September to 22 December 1954. This...
