By MALUM NALU The late Elaine Rohrlach of Ampo in Lae, who passed away last October, was a remarkable woman who was well respected for her work with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of PNG. She was the wife of my good friends Lester Rohrlach and sons Bruce and Allan. We kids who grew up around …
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Every September 16, Papua New Guineans join together to celebrate our 33rd anniversary of independence, linking hands to the refrain of ‘Oh Arise All You Sons’. As we all join hands, spare a thought for other unity songs of that eventful period of PNG’s history, which did so much to bring together the many different …
By MALUM NALU This article was first published on November 4 2008. When The National’s news editor Jacqueline Kapigeno told me the sad news of the passing of Ian Boden early on the morning of November 4, 2008, a deep and profound sense of loss went through my heart, a feeling on behalf of all …
APRIL 17 2022 Australian Noel Bluett, a founder of Papua New Guinea’s coffee industry and a man with many strong connections to this country, passed away on Friday, November 21, 2014, in Cairns. The late Noel Bluett, executive officer of Coffee Marketing Board from 1965-1971. Many of his family members are still resident in PNG …
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By MALUM NALU BACK in 1984, while doing Grade 11 at Aiyura National High School in the Eastern Highlands, my class did a weekend trek from Aiyura to Yonki. On a cold, wet, Saturday night, we overnighted at Arau Coffee Plantation run by a legendary Australian woman Muriel McGowan Larner. Larner, the mother of one …
This article was first published in 2012 By MALUM NALU I first met legendary Highlands politician and businessman, Sir Sinake Giregire – who passed away in January 2012 – one fine morning in July 2000. That beautiful Goroka morning, while I was working with the Coffee Industry Corporation in Goroka, I drove up to his …
This story was first published in 2012 By MALUM NALU The Coffee Industry Corporation board room in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, is named the Lloyd Hurrell Board Room. Who was Lloyd Hurrell and what was his contribution to Papua New Guinea’s coffee industry? Lloyd Hurrell was a remarkable man, a pioneer coffee grower in Wau and …
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APRIL 14 2022 Many legendary Australian kiaps (patrol officers) helped develop Papua New Guinea into what it is today. Such a man was Ian Downs, who died on Tuesday August 24, 2004, in the Gold Coast, aged 89, one of the greatest and most-legendary men who walked this country. Downs is remembered as the principal …
This article first appeared in The National Weekender on Friday, March 8, 2013 By MALUM NALU On Saturday, March 2, 2013, while in the mountains of Baiune in Bulolo, Morobe province, for the opening of PNG Forest Products’ K100 million Upper Baiune hydro power project, I met two living legends of Bulolo. I was walking …
By MALUM NALU How kiaps got things done in the colonial days Back in 2010, I used to frequent the Weigh Inn Hotel at Konedobu, Port Moresby, to have a pint and a quiet yarn with former kiap (patrol officer) and Member of the First House of Assembly Graham Pople. At that time, the much …