W.M. Hughes | Stories by David Wall

Photographic memories

November 30, 2013 at 11:41 pm (Angoram, artifacts, Bob Mackie, Commentary, Deborah Ruiz Wall, Don Bosgard, Dr Jan J Saave, East Sepik District, expatriates, Fr Fons Ruijter, Goya Henry, H.B.G. Larkin, Jim McKinnon, John Bowers, Kami Raymundus, Kevin Trueman, Michael Somare, Papua New Guinea, Paul Dennett, Peter Johnson, Photos, Sepik floods, Somare, Temlett Conibeer, W.M. Hughes)

Don Pybus in Sydney

Dieter with Peter Johnson, Sepik Ironman Competition, 07/06/2009

Greetings from Goya 1968

A.C.T. Marke & John Kelly in the wilds of PNG

1958 Leeton, contemplates a world trip 1961 Troppo on Kar Kar Island 1963 Driekikir

Bill Eichhorn, successful entrepreneur and politician at home on the Keram River

Dave Wall at Kekten Village

William & Rosa Batak, Kekten Village

Ralf Stüttgen

Sago 3 Sago 2 Sago Memories, thanks to Bob Beeke Jock Bob Beeke Angoram Hotel

kami,Torembi Village

Dave Wall & Jan Saave, some years after they left PNG

Sue Treutlein & Bob Mackie at the Angoram Club

Sanam Kabasse & Dave Wall

Wewak Hospital

Hand-written letter from W.M. Hughes to H.B.G. Larkin 2

Graeme Jones, Robyn Faulkner, Co-op Manager, Dave Bretherton, Jan Matysek, Clare & Des Hill, Bruce Ross, Pat Bretherton, Ella Lucas, Ronnie Lucas

On the left, Eva Waramapi

1960s Angoram 1960s

The Rev. John Spender

David Augustus Wall & John Bowers in Como, early 1980s

Cedric Wyatt, Rick Wyatt, CWyatt – a legend in his own time!

Bob Becke with May & Harry Marchant, Two called to the bar at the Angoram Club, Jim McKinnon, Esther & Jim Stevens

Jock McIntyre & Bob Becke, Western District, PNG, 1960

Angoram Hotel Sepik. Houseboat and powered canoes for guided tours along the mighty Sepik River. Angoram, Sepik District, New Guinea Photo Uwe Steinward (C) GNG 70

Angoram 1960s

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Hand-written letter from Billy Hughes to Herb Larkin

November 8, 2012 at 8:03 am (Commentary, Commonwealth Shipping Line, E.G. Theodore, H.B.G. Larkin, W.G. Mahoney, W.M. Hughes)

Herbert Benjamin George Larkin was appointed manager of the new Commonwealth Shipping Line in 1916; in 1923-26 he was chairman of the Commonwealth Shipping Board. He subsequently joined the P &O in a senior position and retired in the late 1930s. He died in New South Wales in 1944.

William Morris Hughes was Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923. At the time he wrote this letter to Larkin he was the Federal Member for North Sydney. He and Larkin had worked closely during the War on matters dealing with shipping. Hughes strongly opposed government moves to dispose of the Commonwealth Shipping Line in the late 1920s.

In 1937 Alice de Bérigny, my grandmother, married Herbert Larkin in London.

The pages from Brennan, Niall, 1971 John Wren gambler: his life and times, Hill of Content, Melbourne were supplied from my late brother Frank’s notes to help those who might be interested in the letter.

I was pleased to receive the letter and the extract from Brennan’s book today, from Winifred, Frank’s widow.

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Hand-written letter from W.M. Hughes to H.B.G. Larkin 1

Hand-written letter from W.M. Hughes to H.B.G. Larkin 2