Kemish visits Angau hospital

IT was a walk down memory lane for Australian High Commissioner Ian Kemish when he visited the Angau Memorial Hospital on Wednesday.
The one-time Lae resident (Kemish) asked Angau board chairman Benson Nablu as they were walking down the hospital’s hallway where the labour ward was and Nablu pointed to the cement posts that stood at the centre of the Angau hospital grounds.
Kemish stopped, looked at the posts for a while and said, “That was where my brother Peter Martin Kemish was born in 1967.”
The high commissioner was a resident of Lae in the 1960s when his father was working there. 
Nablu explained to Kemish and AusAID officials who accompanied the high commissioner that most of the old buildings at the hospital had been destroyed by termites.  
They also visited the Trukai Industries facilities at Mataram Street where the Australian consulate is also located.