Letters to the Editor
Dear Vicki, May I, firstly, commend and congratulate you on the wonderful content in the last issue of our journal which just seems to get better and better. However, I think that it is...
Issue: 2020 1 March PNG Kundu
The journal of the PNGAA
Memories of a Kiap — Morobe District 1961–65
Momsalom is a large village in the lower part of what was the Naba census division north of Lae. The Naba extended northwards well up into the Saruwaged Range, with the more northern villages at very high altitudes....
Tropicana Billfish Tournament, November 2019
The record breaking 2019 Tropicana Billfish Tournament in East New Britain tagged and released 245 Blue Marlins and three sailfish over eight days, a record in PNG Game Fishing Club history. This surpasses the...
183 RECCE FLIGHT REUNION – MOOLOOLABA 2020 – UPDATE
183 [Independent] Recce Flight was a unit of the Australian Army’s Aviation Corps and was based at Lae Airport from 1968 to 1976. The Flight provided support to the PNG Defense Force, other units...
PNG in the News
Featuring articles and news reports about contemporary Papua New Guinea—also included are the nation’s sporting achievements and events, and stories about young people doing interesting things— we encourage young people to become involved in...
Vales – PNG Kundu Mar 2020
BENHAM, Bill; | BLADWELL, Murray; | CROYDEN, Barbara; | DUGGAN, Daniel Joseph; | MONTGOMERY, David, AM; RIDGES, Jim; | SUTHERLAND, Robert A; | TONER, Jim, BEM; | WESTON, Inez Lesley; | ZEHNDER, John O BENHAM, Bill (22 November 2019 , aged...
Book Reviews – March Kundu 2020
Books Reviewed: Small steps along the Way – by Paul Oates A Short History of the Pacific Islands Monthly Magazine – by Bob Lawrence Up the Creek – by James Sinclair Right Man, Right Place, Worst...
The Royal Australian Navy: the Silent Service in PNG (Part One)
BACK IN 2015 I sent a letter to Una Voce lamenting the fact that the otherwise excellent two-volume set of Papua New Guinea’s Pictorial History, compiled by Dianne McInnes (Pictorial Press Australia, 2015) had...
Books to PNG’s Milne Bay Schools
The last article I sent to the PNGAA journal (see June 2019 p28) consisted of tragic conditions at all the schools and hospital in Alotau at Milne Bay. Since then PNG has a new...
PNG Kundu: our drumbeat, our stories, our voices
Kundu’ (drum in Tok Pisin) is derived from the Kuanua word for the New Guinea rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus) from which most drums are carved and shaped. Kuanua is the language of the Tolai people...
My Last Years as a Kiap
From 23 April 1953 to 27 August 1976 I was a field administrator or kiap in Papua New Guinea. The administrative areas now called Provinces were called Districts. I served in Eastern Highlands, Western...
Travel in the Land of the Unexpected
In October 2014 I was working at Bobcat drill rig as camp manager. Bobcat was located in the jungle in the middle of Gulf Province in Papua New Guinea and the only way in...
A WARTIME AVIATION TRAGEDY: Mount Carstensz
If you fly in the Papua New Guinea Highlands on a cloudless day you may see a sight seldom encountered elsewhere in the world: the wrecks of aircraft still lying where they abruptly collided...
Tisa: A Teacher’s Experience in PNG 1962–75 by ROY KIRKBY (Part Three)
Part One of my story told of my years at Kompiam (UV, June 2019, p.15) and Part Two (UV, December 2019, p.37) featured the years at Jimi River School, and Keltiga Primary T School, which...
Laurie Bragge’s generous donation to James Cook University
The Bragge Collection, gifted to James Cook University by Laurie Bragge, features two intimately connected components – more than 600 material culture artifacts collected by Mr Bragge during the time he lived and worked...
