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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...