Back to Wau After the War – Part two (PNG Kundu Mar 2021)
Peter Shanahan was one year old when he was evacuated from New Guinea in 1942 whilst his father stayed on to fight the Japanese. In a previous issue we heard about Peter’s return to PNG...
Issue: 2021 1 March PNG Kundu
The Kukukuku Clubs by Peter Stace – (PNG Kundu March 2021)
‘These Kukukuku clubs will make a good addition our Papua New Guinea collection,’ the Queensland Museum Curator said. It was 2019 and I was talking to Imelda Miller, the curator of the Queensland Museum...
Namau Primary T School by Len Smith (PNG KUNDU March 2021)
At the start of 1963 I was transferred to Namau Primary T School. It was only three years old and consisted of a bush material classroom, three concrete and fibro classrooms, a single European...
Vale – March 2021
CAMPBELL, Colin Thomas | CAVANAGH, Noel Joseph | DAY, Murray Kenneth | DONALDSON, Claude Kenneth | DONE, Christopher Charles | GUEST, Ann Patricia (Pat) | JEFFERY, Maj Gen Hon Philip Michael AC AO |...
Farewell to the Grand Chief From ABC News (PNG Kundu March 2021)
Papua New Guinea’s first prime minister, Sir Michael Thomas Somare, gcl, gcmg, ch, cf, ssi, ksg, pc, died on 26 February 2021 in Port Moresby, aged eighty-four. Known as the Father of the Nation...
Strength & Fortitude by Annette (Bubby Guest) Ross (PNG Kundu 2021)
On a cold Taree evening, my grandmother, Margaret (Maggie) and my grandfather, Edward (Ted), sat huddled in the draughty log cabin he had built on his soldier’s parcel of land given to him after...
Commemorating the Seventieth Anniversary of the Volcanic Disaster at Mount Lamington by Wally Johnson (PNG Kundu March 2021)
The strongly intertwined histories of Papua New Guinea and Australia, post-WW II, are illustrated dramatically by the terrible disaster that took place at Lamington volcano, Northern District, TPNG, on Sunday, 21 January 1951. Almost 3,000...
ART & BOOK REVIEWS – PNG Kundu March 2021
Featuring new books about Papua New Guinea and reviews, art and craft exhibitions, interviews of interest to members and information for authors, artists and craftspeople—please send your articles and photos to editor@pngaa.net Archibald...
Death of Teaching Brothers by Adam Elliott (PNG KUNDU March 2021)
It is now almost eighty years since three Australian Marist teaching brothers were killed by the Japanese during World War II. While it is not possible to pinpoint their place of death, it seems...
Plant Maintenance in New Ireland by Bevynne Truss (PNG KUNDU March 2021)
‘Your task is to go and improve the standard of plant maintenance in New Ireland,’ Ted Hicks the District Commissioner of Wewak directed me. I arrived in Kavieng, February 1969 and was booked, with...
Working With NGOs in PNG—Global Pressures on PNG Culture Natalie Moxham (PNG Kundu March 2021)
I was first invited to visit PNG in 2010 and then again in 2011 by the Dutch funder, ICCO. I was to facilitate their national partners’ meeting of some fifteen local NGOs. I flew...
A Memorable Experience by Bill (JW) Gornall, Didiman – Part Two (PNG Kundu March 2021)
Kandrian Station, a small outpost on the south-west coast of West New Britain. On a Gimi/Rauto patrol, returning to Kandrian, a monsoonal storm hit. The excerpt from my Field Officer’s Journal (FOJ), 30 March...
Family Farm to PNG Development Bank – Story of a Didiman Murrough Benson Part Seven (PNG Kundu March 2021)
On 24 September 1970 we made our last canoe trip from Murua to Kerema from where we flew to Port Moresby. I started the next day as a rural officer with the Papua and...
Close Calls: Spanning Forty Years in PNG by Joe Gough (PNG KUNDU March 2021)
Former Assistant Patrol Officer, Aiome and Usino Patrol Posts, Madang District, 1968 to 1970 I’m sure many PNG Kundu readers can recall occasions in their lives that we would have no problem classing as...
