ISSN 1442-6161, PPA 224987/00025 2010, No 4 - December Una Voce JOURNAL OF THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA INC Patrons: Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC (Retd) Mr Fred Kaad OBE www.pngaa.net Merry Christmas to all, and best wishes In This Issue for 2011 CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON – From the Sunday 28 November 2010 3 President and KIAP TRIBUTE EVENT 20 November 2010 5 Committee UPCOMING EVENTS 6 GREAT CHARITY RAFFLE 7 The CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON PNGAA INAUGURAL ART SHOW 2011 8 Will be held on NOTES FROM THE N T 9 Sunday 28 November PNG IN THE NEWS 10 At the Killara Golf Club LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 13 556 Pacific Hwy Killara (Sydney) NSW COMSUPER – INDEXATION UPDATE 16 RSVP: 13 November 2010 TIMPERLEY’S RESCUE VOYAGE 18 Organise your family and friends The 'Territorian' Newspaper 21 to come – booking form on yellow insert THE DIY CADET 22 Details on page 3 JIMI RIVER 25 * * * * * TRIALS of JOHN JOSEPH MURPHY 26 Membership fees are now due for 2011. 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CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON – Sunday 28 November 2010 Killara Golf Club, 556 Pacific Highway, Killara NSW (Sydney) 11.30am onwards RSVP: 13 November 2010 Our annual Christmas luncheon is a little earlier this year so please get your replies in quickly! Win Air Niugini tickets and 5 nights‘ accommodation in Rabaul – raffle (pg 7) will be drawn at the lunch! Pre-luncheon drinks (from a cash only bar) will be on the spacious verandah overlooking the beautiful grounds of Killara Golf Club and lunch will be served at 1pm. Cost is $52.50 per person - please use the booking form on the enclosed yellow ‗Treasurer‘s Corner‘. Tables will be for 10. If you wish to be seated with family or friends please advise on the order form OR feel free to make up your own table of 10. Anyone with special dietary requests? Please let us know so we can arrange something suitable. For those coming by train please let us know if you would like transport from Lindfield station which has lifts and a ramp – please phone Harry West on 9418 8793. Public transport information can be obtained on # 131500. Free on-site parking is available for those driving - and to remind you, look for the red and yellow balloons at the entrance immediately after Fiddens Wharf Road on the Pacific Highway as you travel north. Entry to Killara Golf Club is immediately after the Noodle Blast (previously Black Stump Restaurant). For any queries or if you are able to contribute an item for the Christmas luncheon raffle, please phone Juli Allcorn on Ph: 02-9416 1430 (h) or 0405625912 (m) or Email: [email protected] Come along, renew friendships and share the familiar experiences once again at this delightful occasion. Please complete the booking form and payment details on the separate yellow ‘Treasurer’s Corner’ insert and return by 13 November. ▪ An Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday 27 March 2011 Enclosed with this issue of Una Voce is a nomination form which, if you intend nominating a member to the Management Committee, needs to be received by our Secretary by Friday 28 January 2011. Each position requires a nominator, a seconder, and the agreement of the person being nominated. It is preferable that a short bio, of no more than 200 words, reflecting the person‘s background and interests accompanies the nomination. It is the responsibility of the person nominating to find all signatories and ensure the form is returned on time. Please also refer to the ‗Notes‘ on the back of the nomination form. If you wish to nominate more than one person, please photocopy the form before filling out. Only current members can nominate and be nominated. If the number of nominations received exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled, a postal ballot will be forwarded with the March Una Voce. If you have any questions please email: [email protected] or contact our Secretary on: 02-9958 3408 Please remember: Nomination forms can be received no later than 5pm Friday 28 January 2011. ▪ The Management Committee would like to hear from anyone who would be interested in forming or being involved with a regional group in your area. 3 Thank you… Will Muskens has resigned from the role of Treasurer due to work commitments. We thank him most sincerely for his thoughtful input to the committee during his year of involvement. Will‘s insightful ability to gear into the heart of any matter and act quickly and positively was much appreciated. And introducing… We are fortunate that Barry Creedy was able to step in to the role of Treasurer. Barry spent 20 years in PNG from 1958. Initially posted as a Cadet Patrol Officer to Kundiawa Sub District, Barry then went to Manus, Komo (where he finalized construction of an airstrip and Patrol Post and had exploratory and initial conduct patrols in the border area of Southern Highlands and Western District), Kagua, Ialibu and Koroba as A/ADC. Barry was Assistant District Commissioner at Kiunga where, in 1968, he was involved with the West Irian Act of Free Choice and the commencement of the Star Mountains copper project. This included liaison flights to Mindiptana where the Buparti Merauke also attended. He returned to Kundiawa for two terms on DO Special Duties (A/DDC and A/DC at various times) during the period of PNG Self-Government and Independence before going to Kimbe, also as DO (S.D), A/DDC, A/DC. Barry met and married Joy Heal who had had six (6) years‘ service in Tari, Southern Highlands District as a Methodist Overseas Missionary. As a midwife and Huli speaker she supervised the Hoieba/Tari Maternity Hospital and General Outpatient clinic with relieving duties at the Leprosy Hospital. Returning to Australia Barry purchased a motel at Jerilderie eventually being elected Flag Inns Zone Chairman for the NSW area encompassing Deniliquin, Griffith, Wagga, Albury.