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AND a very good morning to one and all! We particularly welcome visitors
to the 43rd PNG Medical Symposium being held in Port Moresby this week,
and we hope that our government will give full support to the theme of
the symposium – oral care and the improvement of the tertiary care of
head and neck diseases.
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THE medical symposia are an important aspect of the PNG calendar; over
many years they have provided a forum for doctors and other
professionals in the medical field to focus upon issues of value to PNG
and the world beyond. Many significant addresses have been delivered and
much medical progress has resulted.
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FROM matters medical to matters Quizzical, as we continue with our
responses to the question about Gemo Island, noted both for the
leprosarium and the relics of gun emplacements dating from WWII. First
of our contributors today is Thomas Kevaro of the environment department
at Lihir mine. Part of his correct answer mentions Gemo’s small wharf
for the loading and offloading of patients and stores for the leprosy
hospital. Thanks, Thomas.
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PETER Sharp e-mailed from Subic Bay – top of the day to you; Peter noted
the hospital buildings were evident when he arrived in POM in 1966, but
subsequently disappeared. Then regular Quizzer Benzamin Zairo sent his
contribution, noting the wartime battery on Gemo.
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BENZAMIN added that his home place of Gagidu in Finschhafen also has a
gun battery and added “I only hope we can treasure these very important
landmarks of our history”. Olive Kapigeno came next; Olive is with Kina
Securities. Then Da Lovaves of Goroka – hi, Mike – sent some expanded
information about the battery, which follows.
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“IN mid-April, 1944, the Australian 8th Army Troops Company/Royal
Engineers built a gun battery facing east with two 6lb guns, with a
concrete ammunition storage area and bunker behind it. Building
materials were transported by barge and a small trolley system. The
battery and two pillboxes are still present to this day.”
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FINALLY this morning we greet Peter Gimots in the Federated Micronesian
State of Yap; great to have you with us. Cheers until tomorrow!
– Dee Nesenolis
 
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