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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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 …
Remembering Jack Remus Nawatz (September 9th 1983 – October 25th 2004) By MALUM NALU Steven ‘Sticky’ Nawatz, son of my late nephew Jack Nawatz, turned 18 at home at Butibam in Lae yesterday. Last night, I thought of Jack ( and all our loved ones who’d left us), and the memories came running back and …
By MALUM NALU MAY 9 2021 In October 2007, I travelled with my Mum, the late Mrs Moasing Nalu, to Malalo in Buakap, Morobe province, for the 100th anniversary of the Miti (Word of God) reaching the Malalo Circuit. She was so happy and proud that I was travelling with her and excitedly pointed out …