Issue #1 August 1970
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I I I New Guinea's Publishers PACIFIC AND OTHER I of inspirational literature. I educational and entertainin? hook, I VERSE Printers Edited by J. G. Brown $1.65 A POETRY BOOK ESPEC1AI.LY FOR SCHOOLS of pamphlets, books and programmes I IN PAClFlC COUNTRIES for all institutions. as well as I This n:w anthology i\ designed for children aged business stationery I 9-13 ),ears. It contains work by recognised poets about I l the Pacific are;!, and work by children living there lI Booksellers lI themselve\. I with a wide range of books from Scme of the Contributors - all over the world I SPIKE MILLIGAN, U.K. ROBERT FROST, U.S.A. ALlSTAlR CAMPBELL, N.Z. i I BASHO, Japan I I KATH KALKER, Australia JUDITH WRIGHT, Australia I Affiliated: rea t I TED HUGHES, U.K. HONE TUWHARE, N.Z. I C ive I NOHOMAITERANGI, N.Z. CHAlRlL ANWAR, I I CHARLES MALAM, U.S.A. W. S. RENDRA, Indonesia I W. W. E. ROSS, Canada CHEN TZU-LUNG, China I ISSA, Japan IAN MUDIE, Australia Training Centre I with courses and workshops for I Published by LONGMAN writers. iranslators, editors I Aurtrolion Distributors RIGBY LIMITED I i I I I I I I I I KRISTEN PRES l I l Box 676, Modong I I l Coming from NELSON: BIRDS OF PORT MORESBY AND DISTRICT Roy D. Mnckc?. This handlist will be invaluable to anyone interested in the flora and fauna of Papua and New Guinea. Fully illustrated in black and white with full-colour frontispiece. Approx $3.95. Srptem her HOHAO IJlli Beier arrd Alher! Maori Kiki Hohaos are ancestral boards of the Elema people of the Papuan Gulf. This book describes and analyses the Hohao art form, interprets the religious significance of the designs and investigates the decline of the culture. Fully illustrated with black and white photographs. $3.95 Scp/ember. 597 Little Collins Street, For .rpcciti~or ropics (or1 approval) wrile 10 - i MANAGER, LONGMAN AND OLIVER & BOYD ; NELSON ~~~~~~~e Street. Sydney DI\/ISION, RIGBY I>IMITED P.O. BOX 104, NORWOOD, S.A. 5067 I About New Guinea Writing - Number 1, August 1970 This About This Publication About Our Writers We have called this collection of stories, poems Four Stories and articles "New Guinea Writing", and added "No. by Paulias Matane I" to the title, because we hope it will be the first of many publications to appear with that name. by Allan Natachee All the works in this issue (except for the Editor's Hunting the Killer review of some new books of poems) have been written by indigenous people - and that is the main by Vincent Eri purpose of the publication. We want to encourage How the Missionaries Came to Buin 1 1 people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea to speak to each other through the written word. A Morning at Koki Market Though we have called the collection "New by Alain Waike Guinea Writing," we do not mean work done in the northern part of the Territory only. New Guinea is Breaking the Ear the name given in atlases and geography books to this by Kumalau Tawali whole island which is made up of West Zrian, Papua, New Guinea and the offshore islands. So "New Guinea How Wai Dealt With a Thief Writing'' means writing from the entire area. In this by Bob Giegao issue, you will find works written by Mekeos - Alain Waike and Allan Natachee - and there are pieces by John Bonu, from Bougainville, Paulias Matane and by Jacob Simet Jacob Simet, from New Britain, Vincent Eri, from the Gulf District, Bob Giegao, from the Chimbu District, About Some New Books and Kumalau Tawali, from Manus. Edited by Donald Maynard For the indigenous people of this country, writing is one of the newest and youngest arts. Before the Cover by Esau Reuben coming of the white man, the native races had their Copyright 1970: Bureau of Literature own community and decorative arts - dancing, sing- ing, music, and the making of houses, carvings, pottery and weaving. All of these helped them to remember things - about their ancestors and tribal laws - but Publ~shed by New Guinea News Service, P.O. Box there was no written art; only the arts of talking 5050, Boroko, for the Bureau of Literature, Depart- cleverly (oratory) and of story-telling and singing. ment of Information and Extension Services, T.P.N.G., and printed by Papua New Guinea Printing Co. Pty. Ltd., Port Moresby. For many years now, both government and mis- sion schools have been teaching more indigenous Production Editor: John Ryan people to read and write the languages they speak. It New G~dineaNews Service is natural that a developing country like New Guinea should look towards its own writers to help in develop- ment. Through writers and thinkers often come ideas NEW GUINEA WRITING, NO. 1, AUGUST 1976PAGE 4 . p - that will help other men to understand themselves and stories, articles - anything they have written - for their neighbours better. future issues of "New Guinea Writing." There will be payment made for anything we find good enough or Sometimes a writer will want to tell his readers interesting enough to print. Your stories and poems what happened to his ancestors or to re-tell a folk story should be sent to: that used to be told around the fires at night. But a1 a later stage, writers become more interested in them- The Editor, selves and in the people around them, the problems they have to solve, and the way they live now. "New Guinea Writing," We have included a short extract from the first Department of Information and Extension full-length novel to be published overseas from a New Services, Guinean author. A novel is a long story divided into Konedobu, Porr Moresby. many chapters and though it may have characters based on fact or the writer's memories of the past, it is purely imaginative fiction. If you think you are good The next issue of "New Guinea Writing" will ap- at writing short stories, then you might like to try your pear when we have enough new material to publish. hand at writing a novel some day. "Hunting the Killer," Meanwhile, we hope you will enjoy this first issue of from chapter six of Vincent Eri's novel The Crocodile, a magazine printed for you - the people of New has been reprinted by kind permission of the publish- Guinea - and written mostly by your own people for you to read. The writers who will emerge in this coun- ers, Jacaranda Press, of Brisbane. try have many challenges to meet - and we are only Writers of this country are invited to send poems, at the beginning of it. r--------------~--,,,------,----~-----~ 1 Here is a little poem entered by a student of St. Paul's Lutheran High School, Pausa, Western High- l lands District. Kamund's verse may not be the best 1 LITERARY entry, but it is a very moving and colourful poem l 1 to have been written by a deaf boy: i 1I COMPETITIONS MY COUNTRY t t Highlands and mountains, lI I Results of the Bureau of Literature Poetry Sunshine and breeze, 1 and Play Competitions, and of the Second Flowers and moonlight, l 9 Annual Territory Short Story Contest will be t t Make a glistening in the dim ,light . I announced on or after September 30 in the Without a light of its own. 1 'Post-Couriera and 'Our News' and 'New ! Guinea News Service' publications. Swaying palm trees, Jungles and rivers, 1I i t White coral sand - I There have been so many entries that it has been t ! hard for iha judges to pick the first prize-winners. This is my country, We hope to print some of the best entries soon in This is my land ! lt New Guinea Writing, Our News and other publications. l I Komund Piki i i l L--.----------,,---------u----- 4 NEW GUINEA WRITING NO. 1, AUGUST 1970--PAGE 5 -p-pp--- About 1 Four Stories 1 L- -.-,.-\ Our Writers Paulias Matane 72 f7 * JOHN BONU, who comes from Buin (southern Bougainville), is a first-year Arts student at the Uni- The Thief versity of Papua and New Guinea, Waigani. There was once a village in the Warongoi Valley, VINCENT ERI, who was born at Moveave in west of East New Britain District. the Gulf of Papua, has been a teachers' college lecturer and a district inspector and is at present Acting Super- Every morning all the people of the village, ex- intendent of Primary Education. He is one of the first cept a weak old woman, went to their gardens to work. graduates (B.A.) of the University of Papua and New The old woman had a son who often brought back Guinea. food from his garden in the evenings. BOB GIEGAO, born at Chuave in the Chimbu District, has attended writers' courses held by the When the people returned in the evenings, they Lutheran Mission, is a director of Kristen Pres Inc. would find that someone had taken food from their and circulation manager of the "Post-Courier" in Port houses. They blamed the old woman for this loss. Moresby. The son felt ashamed when he heard this. He PAULIAS MATANE, who was born at Viviran, said to himself, "Tomorrow I'll find out who the thief East New Britain, has visited African countries, Aus- is." tralia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, has been a member of the Public Service Board, and is at present Acting Director of Lands, Surveys and Mines, Port Moresby.