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MAY your week be creative, safe – and fun. It’s the last Monday in March,
as we send our good mornings to the most distant corners of glorious PNG.
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SO – where are you? Do you look through the palms and see the waves
sliding onto the beach, the early morning sun warming the sand? Or do you
stand like the king of the world on some mountain slope, with the mist
wreathing around your feet, and the occasional muffled call of the birds?
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WE live amidst such great beauty that almost any scenario is possible;
sometimes it is in truth time to stop and smell the … well, frangipanis.
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SPEAKING of which, friends of ours have a spectacular gardenia bush
beside an untamed cascade of
honeysuckle. When both are in bloom the perfume wafts in great heavy
gusts across the lawn. There can be few scents as evocative as that of
the gardenia.
Evocative of what, you ask? Well now – that would be telling.
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TITLES can pose problems. Our Quiz Honour Roll this week concerns a most
titled gentleman, one who wrote large on the pages of PNG colonial
history. We refer to the Rev Dr Sir Percy Chatterton, and we asked you to
tell us something of his connection with our country.
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OUR first e-mail came from Colleen Tamaduk who said: “Sir Percy
Chatterton was a British missionary, a teacher and an outspoken
politician who fought for the people, spending 50 years in Papua.” That’s
an excellent brief snapshot of Sir Percy; we remember him as a staunch
fighter for what he believed was right.
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NEXT we heard from John Westcott at AusAID, who favoured us with the
following almost Churchillian snip of the Chatterton oratorical skills in
the Haus Tambaran, of which he was a Member. Says John: “One day he heard
a parliamentarian say something that he could scarcely believe. The Rev
Percy rose and said: “There is a perfectly respectable word in Pidgin
which describes the statement made by the honourable Member.
Unfortunately, I am speaking English and can not use it.”
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TOMORROW we’ll continue with memorabilia about this remarkable man. Ciao!
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– Dee Nesenolis
 
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