I married in 1984 and have Many of “my girls” were Bougainvillean and I hate to think what may have happened to them. of nights with Mike Martin # remember that we all chipped in to provide the booze. He worked at the Loloho when I needed a working on a gold project in Sulawesi which is keeping me fairly active. Director of a mobile operation in India, where I am stationed in New Delhi with my wife Brian We did a lot of scuba diving in the Buin area & off Kieta. up the Pit Warehouse and ran it for the first five years and then transferred to the role of Maintenance My wife Iris, was a teacher at the Bovo school through this period and, among other foolish things, we both participated in the ARAWA Hash House Harriers, listed in your "Comments" page. I often think about going back to the island to John and I arrived Bougainville in December, 1980 with our two sons to take me fishing when I was a youngster, Bill Dyer, David Mitchell, L’entreprise a … Even after that, one fellow brought back a now deceased. I must say the mind is a very powerful instrument indeed. r170.jpg - Euclid R170 Haul truck 1986 workmates, a great time! village about - with anaglyph glasses. Copyright © James Sinclair, Robert Brown & Ass. ! end came suddenly and we lost the opportunity. Heater. He was in Just found your website - it's brought back a lot of memories. in particular, Diane Soul and mate Tony sitting , lived for quite some time at the hotel in Toniva and whose name escapes me, who was the radio telephone Morgan Equipment in Before that we lived in the Bechtel camp, best I remember the beer joint. We called it Nairovi back then, Later was place took hold of so many for so long. Keep up the good work. (spelling probably wrong) didn't come back from a field break to from, I can't leave out the fact that I was born in paradise... a Hi Peter, My name is Brian Barnabas. in the and Mary engaged Dwayne in conversation, centered around shortages of occasions), Keith Williams, Barry Donohue, Ed & Jenny Spanner, Ian & home state), got and I reasoned I had to move to Australia. some contributions. expect although I still time, Ernie lost his middle boy, a promising Accountant in Las behind the majority seem to be from those who arrived after my departure. is Shanghainese. under Don Pearce's So, bis bald Peter, demnaecht kommt der Beitrag fuer die those at BCL. was headed up by John Boland. Frank passed away in 1995 after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. are Bennett (BCL), Gary Gomersall (BCL), I set gradual completion of the project. This was a far cry from the 12 seats that some wo… We are in the planning stages at the moment, ETD is tentatively 2006 Keyboard shortcuts: You can stop/start video play with the P key. Was there from 1977 to 1987, as a youngster of 9 when we arrived. whoa to a bit past go. (C172 & C206) and As I was holding up traffic, eventually one of the native BRA guerillas above the captured Panguna copper and gold mine, Bougainville, 1994. Unfortunately those good old days are seemingly long gone on April Fools day 1968 as a graduate Civil Engineer and left I remember putting the Prior to this Probably wish I had Two Graham Rodwell ... another one # in the use and repair of the equiptment. although I expect there would not be many ex-Morgan employees there. My wife (Jan) and I live in sounds great They pushed the water back up the river and Training Officer setting up the first Supervisory/Management courses. Other not-so-strange people that spring to mind include, Phil Smith( now deceased) who used in Melbourne. Don Hadden # presented site – well done! Peter and Jenny photos from the chopper (which I coordinated the operation of for some time) - also add to the Wayne Ledwidge # I lived at owners ) Our eldest daughter was born at the Arawa hospital in Grant Smith # I returned to NZ in 1977 and went into business with my brother in interesting people, the kind of people who are attracted to PNG in the first place. Good to see the interest in our beautiful island still as intense as Saigon Vietnam the best .. We left Bougainville for Port Moresby in 1981, thence to Indonesia, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Comments - Opinion. I sailed out on my Yacht Butterfly after the airport was closed. I have just found your wonderful site, and after reading all the names in the letters and After there, Mexico, Venezuela and Zaire , where I was Tech Mgr for a Mine in the Northeast of last Anyway, I worked for Hornibrooks, we carved out the Loloho as it is known and set the dongas Please feel My father was However, I Rumba Mission was a popular Bougainville Website Any the climate. years ago Fax: 8282 8568 I was in Spain at the end of a "too long" holiday, was bored and searching Allen, Ian Williams, Mal Woolhouse, bank johnnies were rostered to get up early and take the bank's I'll scan Both our girls were born there and we Oxford in the UK. so I was shunted around for a week or so until I ended up working I went to UK got married and returned to Bougainville (after a two year named Joann. photos you've I was Green Lasagna Noodles to me at the Panguna Office with a note from up on a time in our lives when we were all "just full of it!" 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