New Fryer Library items
December 2015

 

Robyn Watters: small photo album ca.1920/1930: people; views of Brisbane, Cairns, Barron Falls; Port Moresby (villages, villagers, men/ boys in native dress, Ela Beach Memorial Gates, town/coastal views;  Rouna Falls; Samarai ditto; Woodlark Island; Mission scenes. Photocopy Captain Edwin (Ted) Tyler Brown; group photo (possibly ANMEF officers Rabaul 1914 with notation Brown 3rd from left);  Loose photos (small bundle) village official (“hatman”); garden view, Mission land Tanna (not PNG); coconuts; ?Kokopo coastal view; bamboo; Rabaul looking towards Kokopo (top left) with Tovanambatur volcano at rear; Blanche Bay; husking a coconut; *villagers with canoe on beach; moonlight on Blanche Bay; lights of Rabaul; condenser for drinking water (see note on back). Loose photos (large bundle); first two unidentified; view from behind our house; unknown women (note on back - ?Ted’s first wife); *villagers with canoe on beach (see note on back); view of Matupi volcano; laughing man; Matupi volcano; New Britain river; ?Kokopo area trading post; north east coast warriors; Botanical Garden Rabaul; woven bamboo fish traps; garden house; native children swimming; native beach market; “shootboi” with Goura pigeons; “Papuan Venice” aka Hanuabada Village, Port Moresby; North Son volcano Nakanai; latest N.B. eruption – Nakanai (no date); sailing canoe (lakatoi) Papua; bottom of new crater, Rabaul; splitting cane for tying purposes; sailing canoe Woodlark Island (Papua); general view of a plantation (name illegible) wharf and shed; entrance to main wharf Rabaul during ANMEF occupation 1914-1921; B(urns) P(hilp) steamer Rabaul; coastal/plantation scene Rabaul; native women dancing; natives resting before house; laid-up Vila (not PNG); husking coconuts/cutting copra; village scene; line of fishermen, Rabaul in background; man with four children on beach; Matupi volcano; canoes with coconut fibre sails; the Sentinel; two fish traps; female diviner (alleged witch); five native house servants; Morobe (NG mainland); coconut reserve Samarai Papua; Campbell’s walk at Samarai; native police ?Rabaul; Mt Father (Ulawun) active volcano Nakanai; widow in face mask (Pagona, Fly River, Papua); an Orokolo bowman Papua; women carrying produce home from gardens, Samarai; thatched huts in native village; coastal/ /pearling lugger; hotel ?Rabaul; European men marching; Botanic Garden Rabaul; lakatoi trading canoe, Port Moresby harbour, Papua; collecting shellfish, New Britain. Two envelopes of negatives of some of the above; one (sealed) marked “Doubtful”.

Postal cylinder containing: large A4 size photo of ANMEF officers, Rabaul, ca.1914; one A4 size photo of Rabaul looking towards Kokopo and harbour entrance (possibly taken from Tunnel Hill lookout); pano-rama of Rabaul facing Kokopo showing Dawapia Rocks in Simpson-hafen and anchored ships. Captain Edwin Tyler Brown personal details World War 1 service record.

Jill Taylor: map of Territory of New Guinea and Territory of Papua 1934 mounted on linen for convenient folding; extract “Bulolo and Wau” from Richard Jackson (ed.) An Introduction to the Urban Geography of Papua New Guinea. University of Papua New Guinea, Dept of Geography, Occasional Paper no.13, March 1976. Extract re-typed and supplied by Don Seiler.

Greg Ivey: Papuan Infantry Battalion 75th Anniversary Program, Saturday 20th June 2015, Cascade Gardens, Broadbeach: Colour photographs of those attending; list of participants; 20 June 2015 Running Sheet; welcome by Lt. Col. M.B. Pears MC; speech of Major-General Michael Jeffery; Wreath List (final version); extract from Post Courier Friday, June 1, 1990 (incomplete); copy of An Illustrated History of the Pacific Islands Regiment from its formation on 19th June, 1940, until the present day. South Pacific Post Pty Limited, Port Moresby, 1970.

Peter Cahill: copy of Paradise Magazine January/February 2015; copy of Jack Read’s Coastwatcher 1941-43: His Bougainville Reports. Special Edition, Papua New Guinea Printing Company Ltd., Port Moresby. 2006

Charles Betteridge: folder containing The 70th Anniversary of the Japanese Surrender, Cape Wom, Wewak, Papua New Guinea.  September 1945 – 2015. Includes black & white & coloured photos of men, equipment, airfields, Surrender Ceremony, Indian POW graves, Cape Wom Surrender Memorial, “Steven’s Gate” – main entrance to Memorial Park (photos supplied by Peter Johnson), maps, Japanese War Memorial, Mission Hill; examples of Japanese occupation money.
List with photographs of Victoria Cross recipients Lt Albert Chowne and Pte Edward (Ted) Kenna. Photos of Wewak in the 1940s and 1970s supplied by Glen Boulton of Wewak and the Catholic Mission’s Wirui Press. All colour photographs taken by Charles Betteridge.