Making History Module Essay by Marley Pearce

The main activities of the report was census taking throughout the Minj District and through other regions of which the names are illegible due to text fading. Notable areas are Kudjip, Tambal and Mauwi. The census-taking was conducted from rest houses, with populations lined up outside of them in order to be recorded[1][2], with the…

Making History Module Essay by Bronte Cuffe

Part 1: The Report The patrol was conducted by Patrol Officer J. Hannan and took place over 32 days between the 25th of March and the 9th of May in 1958. The area patrolled was named by the Australian administration as the Middle Lai census division. This area includes the Minyamba Valley and is defined…

Making History Module Essay by Gabriela Valenzuela

This essay will discuss a patrol conducted within a six-mile radius of Wapenamanda which is located in the Lower Lai Valley of the Western Highlands. Robert A. Wright was the patrol officer and he was accompanied by five constables and one interpreter. The patrol occurred during a 15-day period, from the 17th September 1956 to…

Making History Module Essay by Jake Cox

The purpose of the E.R. Johnson’s patrol between 4th to the 25th of July 1957 within the Kamanuntina and Gafutina census divisions of Goroka District (Eastern Highlands Province) was “routine administration” and the collection and revision of census data.[1] By this point, the vast majority of the Highlands were under some degree of control by…

Making History Module Essay by Scott McCarthy

Introduction:    This essay will respond to a patrol of the Kerowagi Patrol Post area in 1954, the subject matter of which is contained within a corresponding patrol report. The patrol in question took place between 9 and 18 December 1954 and was led by Patrol Officer John A. Gauci. The patrol visited the Eastern Highlands…

Aboutness Statement – 1935-1936 – Kerema Gulf District

Revised ‘aboutness’ statement: This volume focused on inspections; villages, roads, fences, and general infrastructure.  Patrol Officers took regular census of men, women, children, and infants; while cataloging marriage, death, general health and disease information.  Minute information regarding family bonus, wages and payments (including other than money payments), building and bridge construction, carriers employed, police taken…

Cultural Context of the Gulf District, Kerema in 1935 – 1936.

Kerema, which is the provincial capital of the Gulf District, is located on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea, and due north of Queensland, Australia.  According to the National Archives of Australia, Papua New Guinea was proclaimed a Class ‘C’ mandate from the League of Nations in 1921, which gave Australia sweeping new powers…

All About Margo Tannewitz

I am Margo Tannewitz, an avid reader with a boundless desire for better understanding the world that I live in. I am an aspiring writer who deeply cherishes education, and wants more than anything to better the world through the literature I craft. A large sense of my identity comes from the literature (in all…