Tagged: June2017
Kalibobo Spirit: Sepik Expedition by Dame Carol Kidu
SEPIK EXPEDITION (27.12.2016 – 2.01.2017) Reflections by Dame Carol Kidu DBE Dr (Hons) (Part one 27-28 December 2016) The mighty Sepik River – that’s how I described it before embarking on the Kalibobo Spirit...
Our National Myopia – A History Forgotten, by Max Uechtritz
It was the first Australian town ever to be attacked. Japanese aircraft carriers and bombers were involved, the end result was devastation and many hundreds of Australian civilians and soldiers killed. You’re probably thinking...
Didiman’s Diary No. 7 by David Montgomery
A continuing story of transfers, travels and the testing times of an Agricultural Extension Officer in Papua New Guinea. 5 January 1960. I flew into Maprik, from my previous posting at Aitape, and took...
Farewell to our retiring President – Andrea Williams
The time has come to say ’au revoir’ to our President, Andrea Williams who, by the terms of PNGAA’s Constitution, is required to step down from the position she has so competently occupied these...
Reminiscences of a Visit to Madang/Wewak: Christmas 1954 by Leo Butler
Flew side-saddle Lae to Madang via Goroka in a chartered DC3 with Mandated Airlines Captain Tom DEEGAN, First Officer Jim SMITH. The aircraft was loaded with drums of fuel distillate and motor spirit (chartered...
A Chalkie (Part 1) by Ben Scheelings
Having read David Montgomery’s recent ‘A Didiman’s Diary’ and noted his observation about the prevalence of kiap stories in Una Voce, I thought it was time that I put pen to paper and say...
The Tol Plantation Massacre 4th February 1942 by Margaret L Henderson
The year 2017 will be marked by remembering the 75th anniversary of terrible events to our north. We have already seen formal anniversary services for the fall of Singapore and the bombing of Darwin....
The Teapot Lid by Margaret L Henderson
My father, The Reverend Thomas Nevison Simpson, died in early 1942. The official (but disputed) story of his death is that he was aboard the Japanese prisoner of war ship ‘Montevideo Maru’ that sailed...
Randolf Stow’s Trobriand Islands by Suzanne Falkner
CONT from Dec issue So now I am becoming increasingly apprehensive about my excursion to the Trobriands: with no language skills, and unable to leave the island until the arrival of the next plane...
Papuan Carriers: The “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels” of WW11 by Chris Warrillow
In October 1959, I arrived in Kairuku on Yule Island as a Cadet Patrol Officer. ADO Ken Brown instructed me to accompany him and Patrol Officer Pat Dwyer to Inawaia on the mainland, in...
My story: growing up in PNG by Pam Oberman (Part 2)
I arrived in Lae New Guinea at the age of six from Brisbane around 1956 on a DC3 with side-saddle seats, accompanied my mother Marjorie Miller, my brother Peter aged 12, and my sister...
Thomas Arthur Steen: Part 2 By Bessie Steen
Whilst on leave as a result of a routine chest x ray for T.B. a heart defect was found. Tom was operated on at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney in March 1964. He was unable...
