VALE – September 2021
ANDREWS, Roy John | GRIFFIN, John, QC | OLIVER, Norman Francis | THISTLETHWAITE, Dr Robert; ANDREWS, Roy John (28 April 2021) Roy, born 1 January 1937, was one of twenty-six Cadet Patrol Officers in the...
Issue: 2021 3 September PNG Kundu
ART & BOOKS
Steve Capelin Paradiso This novel is set in New Ireland and is based on the bizarre but true story of the Marquis de Rays, who had ambitions of starting a great French colony in...
Building the Road up the West Coast of New Ireland – PNGK Sep 2021
Bevynne Truss As the push started towards and up the west coast of New Ireland in 1969 my bulldozers’ track systems suffered huge damage—cracking and high cleat wear, bolts shearing apart due to the...
Pig Bel — or, Too Much of a Good Thing? – PNGK Sept 2021
ROBIN COOKE Pigs are widely distributed throughout PNG, although it is not clear how long they have been in the country. However, they have been there long enough to be incorporated into the social...
The Old Goroka Base Hospital – PNGK Sept 2021
A personal recollection of Papua New Guinea medical services PRE-INDEPENDENCE Jack Wall In 1968 I spent two months working for the Public Health Department (PHD) of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (TPNG)...
Life and Times at Talidig School 1961-62 – PNGK Sept 2021
LEN SMITH After six months at Malahang Teachers’ College in Rabaul, in 1961 I was posted to Talidig Continuation School. Talidig was a boarding school in the Madang District and it catered for students...
Family Farm to PNG Development Bank—Story of a Didiman – PNGK Sept 2021
Murrough Benson—Part Nine As early as 1970 the Development Bank recognised that in order to help promote more rapid development of the country it would be necessary for the Bank itself to become involved...
A Memorable Experience PNGK Sep 2021
Kiunga Sub-District, North Fly District BILL (JW) Gornall, Didiman—Part Four The northern section of the Kiunga Sub District (SD) rises up from 100 feet above sea level at Kiunga to 12,000 ft (3,700m) along...
Two Tales from My Visit to the Fore Area in 1957 PNGK Sep 2021
JOSEPHINE WHITEMAN In 1957 I was flying from Sydney to the Solomon Islands to work as a nutritionist. The plane stopped at Port Moresby. I arranged to meet the only other nutritionist working in...
A Career Change Called PNGK Sep 2021
A RECORD OF A DIFFERENT LIFE Bill Muntz I was thirty-five with a very stable position as a senior clerk in a chartered accountant’s office when I made the decision that being an accountant...
A Place Where Heaven Meets Earth PNGK Sep 2021
VINCENT KUMARA Often called ‘The Land of Handred Mauntens’, Bundi, which occupies the central most scenic part of the Bismarck Range, is indeed a hidden jewel for cultural tourism in Papua New Guinea. Sharing...
The PNG Star Mountains: Still Wild After All These Years – PNGK Sept 2021
Chris Sharples—Part One In 1963 white people first tried to reach the western Star Mountains peaks (John Groenewald’s ‘Diary of the 1963 Star Mountains Patrol’, Una Voce, December 2016). My account describes a private...
A Sydney Anzac Day March to Remember : Russell Wade – PNGK Sept 2021
Anzac Day 2021 was a momentous occasion for Warrant Officer John Irwin (‘Jock’) Wilkinson, having both recently turned 100 and met his personal goal to march on his own two feet on Anzac Day....
Papua New Guinea’s Transition to Independence
Andrew Peacock In 1971 I was labouring under a variety of pressures as a very young Minister for the Army, having been appointed at the age of thirty. As you know, we were very...
Last Pack – PNGK Sept 2021
The Label & Pack working bees in Sydney have finally come to an end. In the past the packing and posting out of our journal, PNG Kundu, has been handled by a happy group...
