UQFL387 Papua New Guinea Association of Australia
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UQFL387 Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Size 75 boxes, 13 parcels, 1 folio folder Contents Photographs, typescript articles, correspondence, diaries, notes, reports and ephemera documenting personal experiences of colonial administration in Papua New Guinea. Most papers are from the period 1930 to 1950s. Notes This collection was assembled by Dr Peter Cahill, from material donated by members of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia. The donor of each group of material is indicated in the headings on the listing. Includes explanatory notes by Dr Cahill. Open access except for Box 22 Folder 17, Box 40 Folder 19, Box 52 looseleaf ms. Box 1 Photographs (Envelopes 1- 27) Pat Boys Envelope 1 1. 7 people sitting on sloping lawn (photocopy) 2. Vi, John and Elizabeth Comb, [Rabaul?], 193? 3. Foreshore view of Rabaul, 1913 4. Japanese visiting war graves, 196? Bob Hoy Envelopes 2 - 7 Envelope 2 Shell Depot garage, Voco Point, Lae Envelope 3 Coronation Day celebrations in Lae- singsing, decorated floats, PIR pipe band (20 small photos) Envelope 4 Wau : nurses’ quarters, Wau hotel, road to Bulolo, scenery (24 small photos ) Envelope 5 Shell Depot, Voco Point, Lae (11 small photos) Fay Hoy being carried across Markham River at Nadzab, 1949 (1 small photo) Envelope 6 Coffee plantation, Wau (2 small photos) War Cemetery, Lae (2 small photos) Highlands villagers (5 small photos) 1 Methodist Church, Rabaul (1 small photo) Envelope 7 Singsing, Lae (3 photos) Looking from Namanula Hill, Lae (the Terrace) looking over airstrip to Huon gulf (1 photo) Place discharging storepedoes (1 photo) Fatal Lockhead crash in March 1950 (3 killed) (2 photos) Esme Brown Envelope 8 New Guinea Volunteer Rifles at parade possibly before the Japanese invasion of Rabaul, Jan 1942 (2 photos) Anonymous Envelopes 9-10 Envelope 9 Rabaul area 1930s : houses (1 behind wharf Malaguna Road, 1934-35; 7 of house interiors; 2 garden scenes; Lakunai racecourse on opening day, 26 Apr 1930) (photocopies) Envelope 10 Rabaul scenes, 1930’s, photographs and photocopies: 13 photos of decorated floats of Coronation of King, 1937 2 photographs of police guard of honour for arrival of Minister for Territories C W C Marr 21 photos of social scenes, cars and house interiors 21 photos of the opening day Rabaul Amateur Turf Club, Lakuani, 26 Apr 1930 14 photographs of harbour scenes, houses and wharf 2 photographs of Singsings (includes Dukduks) 5 photographs of shipping Pat Murray Envelope11 Copies of originals – captions on originals 1. Wrecked schooner in Sulphur Creek, Rabaul 2. War criminal compound, Rabaul, (subsequently used as the Hospital, the police barracks are to the right) 3. Burns Philp’s store, Mango Avenue, Rabaul 1945 4. Freemason’s lodge, Rabaul, partly re-roofed 5. Building with car in left foreground not identified 6. “Nips”[sic] (Japanese prisoners of war, Rabaul 7. Port Moresby showing Burns, Philp store (with tower) looking towards Touaguba Hill 8. Elevala village outside Port Moresby 9. View of Port Moresby from Goldie Law (Touaguba Hill) ca 192? 10. The wharf at Port Moresby (note BP’s tower) ca. 192? 11. View of Port Moresby from Douglas Street area looking towards St John’s Anglican church with European Hospital (large building told left) 2 Basil Hayes Envelope 12 Photocopies of Rabaul photographs held by Mrs Hayes: 1. Malaguna Road 2. Supreme Court 3. Customs House 4. Post Office (left) 5. Burns Philp and New Guinea Company store, and Davies Chemist shop 6. Entrance to Government House, Namanula Hill 7. House Snake (probably single men’s quarters) 8. M V Neptune D S Barnes Envelope 13 a Photographs of Gaima, lower Fly River, 1947-1948 : 1. Very high tide. The large station canoe with two masts and two outriggers, ‘Brown Rice’; The station whaleboat which did not have a name 2. High tide. Station whaleboat; Joan amidships; and an outrigger of the ‘Brown Rice’; “The whaleboat had no motors but, as I remembered, it had two oars and two barge poles. If we had no wind we had to get to shore or the tide would take us – hence oars and poles for short distances 3. A short distance up the Fly River, taken from one of the very few high banks; Joan and our dog Kiri amidships 4. This huge canoe was abandoned at Gaima by a group of men from Lake Murray on their way to get their first glimpse of civilisation, they were certainly looking ahead, which was quite remarkable for those days: Joan and Kiri at the far end of the canoe 5. Our first house at Gaima, which was out first home after we were married, L to R: station store and office, our house, kitchen – half of the roof of which was corrugated iron, part of the laundry 6. Proceeding to the right from No 5, the laundry, the toilet, the Fly River. The land in right background is a long island between the banks of the Fly Rivers. Ern and Ruth Graham were our nearest neighbour, he manager of the Madiri Plantation on the other side of the river. Obviously, when I took Nos 5 and 6, I stood further from the subject in 6 than in 5 (I was not thinking of fifty years hence, but then who of our your age did then, or do now) 7. Our second house at Gaima. Laundry to the rear, small fenced garden in front, the path to the left went to the new hospital 8. This photograph is included, not because of the handsome couple on the steps, but to illustrate those steps. They were made from flitches from the station pit saw. The large dog belonged to Ern and Ruth Graham 9. Our front entrance at very low tide, ‘Brown Rice’ at low water mark 10. Joan being carried ashore to our front door, Kiri our dog follows closely; Station store and our house in the background 3 11. Part of Gaima; Fly River behind the houses. George Tabua and family were our next-door neighbours – he being the station maintenance man 12. Bill Crellin inspecting the police detachment 13. Detachment of Royal Papuan Constabulary. All have ex-army Lee Enfield .303 rifles and bayonets. From left 1 & 3 wearing plain leather belt, 2 & 5 wearing belt of cartridge pouches, 4 ex-army webbing belt. Chain in for handcuffs, which are in a leather pouch; The Government had more important thing to do soon after the war than to buy belts etc 14. Police squad at drill 15. Weaving walls for the new hospital. The lad in the middle (Medical Orderly, Bauno), who was transferred from Kikori to Gaima at his own request, showing the locals how to weave 16. Fastening the floor for the new hospital 17. Adzing timber for the new hospital; Rear of our house in background 18. Bill Crellin purchasing food for station personnel 19. Bringing home the bacon 20. Preparing tonight’s dinner 21. Clearing scrub for the station garden. Among others, we grew rice (fiend rice), Soybean, rosellas, peanuts 22. Out with the old 23. Recreation 24. This is supposed to be Bill Crellin and myself with sundry others standing on a canoe at Suki Lagoon up the Fly River from Gaima. A very colourful place, water lilies etc flowering, and numerous birds; A constable fired one shot from a 303 and killed three birds (either ducks or geese); during that patrol we encountered the bore, a very awe- inspiring sight 25. Me checking the village census, (the photographer was one of my medical staff) 26. Giving IM (intramuscular) injection in buttock, Gaima Hospital 1947/48. The lad in foreground is Waineti, with a pleasant smile. In 1975, in Lae, I met Dr Waineti, his son, this being indicative of the progress being made by each generation. When I made myself known, Dr Waineti said his father had told him about me. 27. Refer photos 25 & 26. The lad sitting down is being given an IV (intravenous) injection for the disease Yaws, which had three phases caused by a spirochete; the three phases and the spirochete are very similar to syphilis, although yaws was not venereal. The child in photo No 26 is being given an IM (intramuscular) injection in the buttock for Yaws. The IV drug was a complicated compound of arsenic and the IM drug was Bismuth Subgallate in olive oil. A very concentrated effort throughout PNG in the early 60’s using IM penicillin, eventually eradicated the diseases Yaws (Framboesia) I am looking on. I was barefoot because, being this, mud and water were not squelching through my boots 28. A typical communal/community dwelling on the Lower Fly River. Bill Crellin and I spent a very flea-bitten night there on our way to Suki Lagoon 4 29. MV Doma, a vessel which plied between Port Moresby and Samarai, and Port Moresby and Daru, anchored at Port Moresby. It brought my wife Joan to daru, May 1947 30. A Catalina aircraft, which had on, board a goat for Gaima, fortunately the pilot decided not to alight on the water because of logs and trees which are always floating by 31. My wife Joan with friends. The lad was of the staff and was always with us, to look after Joan, when we went anywhere. Not the small child on top of the load at left 32. Joan at ease while nearing home in the whaleboat. The lad in the foreground is the same lad as in No 31 33. Skinning a python, which had swallowed a chook. They had two types of fresh meat for dinner that night.