MEMORIAL NEWS
Unveiling of a Commemorative Seat and Storyboard at Mornington Memorial Park A special community event on 23 January 2023 remembered the 1,053 Australian soldiers and civilians who died as prisoners on the hell ship,...
Issue: 2023 1 March PNG Kundu
VALES & TRIBUTES
ASHTON | HOOK | MC DONALD | OAKES | QUINLIVAN | CAHILL | THURECHT ASHTON, Jeremy Claude 24 November 2022 Jeremy Ashton, born in July 1930, was educated at Winchester School and graduated MA at...
PNG IN THE NEWS
Prime Minister Marape Opens New Airport at Kavieng Prime Minister Hon. James Marape said the Government was investing in other key infrastructure developments like the K125.7 million Kavieng Airport Development. He said this in...
BOOK REVIEWS
Peter Comerford, The Maliau Caves Adventure This is a book for 11–14-year-olds, set in Papua New Guinea and is an exciting adventure set in some caves in New Ireland. The caves are an underground...
EVENTS DIARY
Melbourne Christmas 2022 The PNGAA lunch in Melbourne on 19 November 2022 had a great turnout of 60 attendees including kiaps, relatives, PNG locals, Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Group (R&MMG) members or relatives, 2/14th...
PNGAA Report
From the President With 2023 now well and truly underway, I thought that this quarter I would make some general observations about the economic challenges that face Papua New Guinea (PNG), some 47 years...
Airstrip at Lake Kutubu
QUENTIN ANTHONY I read with interest Chris Warrillow’s letter in the December issue of PNG Kundu and his correction regarding the location of Moro airstrip, which is, of course, situated at the north-western end...
Literature, Music and the Environment in Traditional and Contemporary Papua New Guinea
Apisai Enos & Steven Gagau This article was prompted by Phil Fitzpatrick’s series on ‘Literature in Papua New Guinea’ in PNG Kundu, and our involvement recently in preparing a paper on aspects of traditional...
The Evacuation of the Sepik: JA Thurston’s April to September 1942 Expedition
Elizabeth Thurston My father-in-law, Jack Thurston, arrived in New Guinea in 1924 to take up a job with the Administration in Kavieng. He had served in the First World War and spent time afterwards...
Former Kiaps and the Mining, Oil and Gas Exploration Industry
Peter Wohlers Much has been written about the work of kiaps in Papua New Guinea prior to Independence in 1975, but little has been written about the work of former kiaps in the mining,...
Soldiers of PNG Fought Many Battles
Gregory J Ivey—PART 1 Fortune has left alive a few veterans who fought in PNG against a well-armed and ruthlessly-determined invader during the Second World War: they symbolise the historic and cultural integration between...
An Unforgettable Guy Fawkes Night
Ross Clifton In the early 1950s Dad organised a 2-storey home to be built on a multi-terraced hillside block of land in Port Moresby. The large front balcony offered extensive views overlooking Ela Beach—the...
A Rough Landing
Ken Woodward After three years in Fiji, I got a job as Senior Agricultural Economist with the Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries (DASF). So, at the start of 1971, with my wife Sue...
Life at Daru in the Fifties
Ken McKinnon AO When we returned from leave to Port Moresby in May 1956, the information was that I was to go immediately to a new posting in charge of education in the Western...
