PNGAF MAG ISSUE # 9B-5B4M4 of 14th Feb 2023. Eminent TPNG Forester Robin Morwood 1952-1962

AUSTRALIAN FORESTERS in PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1922-1975

PNGAF MAGAZINE ISSUE # 9B-5B4M4 of 14th Feb 2023. FOREST

MANAGEMENT.

Joan (daughter of Frank Vickery) and Robin Morwood’s Wedding Wau 1960. Photo credit Norman Morwood.

2Robin Morwood was a TPNG forestry cadet who died in 1962 at the age of 29 in Lae. He was survived by his wife Joan and nine-month-old son Brian. We have been fortunate to have been able to contact his son Brian.

A Trust Fund was established by the Morwood family in memory of their son Robin to provide a prize for the student showing the highest academic achievement in the diploma course.

Name Robin Morwood 1933-1962

PNG Forestry 1952 cadetship, graduated AFS 1957

Occupation Forest Officer

Work Localities Bulolo/Lae

Died in service 1962

In memory of Robin Robin Morwood Memorial Prize Bulolo Forestry College for best academic student.

Dick McCarthy District Forester TPNG Forests 1963-1975.

2 Press Articles Times Courier Wed 5th December 1962 re Death of Robin Morwood. Brian Morwood personal communication 22 March 2019.

Editor R B McCarthy 2022.

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Eminent TPNG Forester Robin Morwood 1952 - 1962.

ROBIN MORWOOD MEMORIAL PRIZE

A Trust Fund was established by the Morwood family in memory of their son Robin to provide a prize for the student showing the highest academic achievement in the diploma course at the Bulolo Forestry College.

The inaugural award for the Robin Morwood Memorial Prize was presented in 1965 to James Isorua3at the official opening of the Bulolo Forestry College by the Minister for Territories, the Honourable C E Barnes MP.

Bulolo Forestry College Bulolo.

Photo Credit Murray Day Department of Forests 1973.

3 Opening Program for Bulolo Forestry College Dept of Forests Publication 3rd August 1965.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contact with Morwood Family Relations

Early Days

Australian TPNG Foresters Cadetship Scheme

Australian Forestry School Days 1955-1956

Employment TPNG

Father-in-law Frank Vickery

Death of Robin Morwood

page 4

page 5

page 7

page 7

page 16

page 18

page 22

Son Brian Morwood page 26

First Principal Bulolo Forestry College Joe Havel page 27

Second Principal Bulolo Forestry College Leon Clifford page 27

Third Principal Bulolo Forestry College Robin Angus page 28

Fourth Principal Bulolo Forestry College John Godlee page 28

PNG Investigations re Robin Morwood Award

ACROYNMS

page 29

page 36

CONTACT WITH MORWOOD FAMILY RELATIONS

4Through Dick McCarthy’s article re the project of Australian Foresters in PNG before Independence in Una Voice, John Egerton5 , a relation of Robin Morwood made contact.

John Egerton6 was the first cadet veterinary officer to graduate and go to TPNG. He was stationed in Port Moresby at the Kila Kila Veterinary Laboratory. He started there on 4th January 1956 and stayed in the territory service until September 1964. He had several close friends in Forestry from that time such as David and Sheila Dun, Don and Barbara McIntosh, Frank Coppock, Greg and Vicki McDonald. John Egerton later became Professor of Veterinary Science at Sydney University. Currently he is editor of PNG Kundu (the magazine of the PNG Australia association)

John Egerton’s7 older brother Bill was married to Robin’s sister Nancy. Robin and John were both freshers at King’s College and shared some classes in first year uni before he went off to Canberra. John was at Robin’s wedding to Joan in Wau and recalls meeting Frank Vickery then and only a year or two later at Robin’s funeral in Lae.

Through John Egerton8 providing Norman Morwood's address, Norm 9 made available Brian Morwood’s address. Brian is Robin’s son and is of course in close contact with his mother Joan, Robin’s wife. Norm copied in their two sisters Mary and Hazel. Sadly, Hazel has since passed away. Now there are only the two of us left (Norm and Mary) from the original eight R.B. Morwood children.

4 Cartoon from Bob Brown’s Grass Roots Guide to PNG Pidgin South Pacific Post.

5 Personal communication John Egerton 7/9/2018.

6 Personal communication John Egerton 7/9/2018.

7 Personal communication John Egerton 6/12/2022.

8 Personal communication John Egerton 16/9/2018.

9 Personal Communication Norman Morwood 25/2/2019

EARLY DAYS

Robin Morwood10 was one of eight siblings of Roy and Ethel Morwood - Nancy, David, Robin, Peter, Lorna, Mary, Norman, Hazel. Sort of a rhythm there with all the names having 2 syllables. Roy and his brother Eric in the early 1900’s attended Toowoomba Grammar School followed by several descendants.

Morwood to Morewood?11 That "e" has been a problem for many years. It keeps appearing in written stuff. The photo is a rather scary demonstration of the problem of increasing population. Lucky, they don't all have 8 kids these days. Norm’s daughter Karen hosted a larger family "reunion" to have a non-funeral one now that Roy and Ethel's children are down from 8 to just 2 of us Unfortunately, Brian did not get here in time from Brisbane because of bad traffic on the day, but we had his son Connor Joan does not travel much these days Mary and Norm right in the middle with the blue shirts.

Morwood Clan 2022. Photo credit Norm Morwood. Mary Morwood12 recalled Robin as someone who did not always follow all the rules.

Norm Morwood’s13 recollections are limited Robin was one of the older siblings and lived in a different world. I remember fondly Robin and Joan picking me up from Toowoomba Grammar boarding school and taking me out for the day, a great break from the usual stuff. We used to camp at Mooloolaba and one year when Robin came home from “Nasho” complete with 303 rifle, we went over to Point Cartwright by canoe and did a bit of shooting. So different a time to now.

Hazel Green nee Morwood14 recalled that like Norm she did not spend a lot of time with Robin who was in the older half of the family, and any extra memories would be welcome. She does not remember about Norm’s adventures with a rifle and probably never knew. She remembers when the family went camping at Mooloolaba and there wasn't enough room in

10 Norm Morwood person communication 10/12/2022.

11 Personal communication Norm Morwood 20/12/2022.

12 Mary Morwood personal communication 26/2/2019.

13 Norm Morwood personal communication 25th Feb 2019.

14 Personal communication Hazel Green nee Morwood 27/2/2019.

the car. She was very jealous when you and Robin came by train, and Robin bought you a proper meat pie.

Hazel recalls that Robin did his forestry course in Canberra - was that at ANU? She had the impression he went to PNG straight after that?? It must have been round about when they returned from Fiji in 1956. She wasn't with him much when he or he and Joan came back to Australia for holidays, but she remembers he was fun to be with. Some of her information about him came from letters from their mother while she was at boarding school. Her mother mentioned going to a circus once hoping to bring a smile to Robin - did he sometimes have mild depression? I also remember her letter saying that Robin had been in hospital but was much improved and going home soon. Just after that, they came to the school and told me he had died.

Norm reports that now there is just Mary and him. Not much wrong with Mary now 83 (just passed David for longevity). Norm can still do nearly everything he wants to, including commuting by pushy, planting and maintaining a 10-acre native forest in Palmwoods.

Robin was educated at Toowoomba Grammar School and later graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Robin Morwood and John Egerton were both freshers at King’s College. They shared some classes in first year university before Robin went off to AFS in Canberra.

Dick Pegg15 recalls that Robin's nickname was Buckey. Dick also recalls that Robin’s brother Peter was nicknamed Pineboard. He has no clue on the reason for either.

Dick Pegg recalls that Robin16 passed the Qld senior exam in 1950 with 4 As and 3 Bs, high for a Forestry student of those days (Dick says in his year 2 A’s was the norm) In 1951, Dick recalls that Robin was a Qld. cadet or maybe scholarship holder - it was about that time that the scheme changed from a cadetship to a scholarship holder. He recalls Robin failed 2nd year in 1952 and repeated it at his own expense in 1953 after which he accepted a PNG cadetship. There were few survivors in the Forestry course at UQ at that time because of the difficulty students had in passing chemistry in either the first or second year

AUSTRALIAN TPNG FORESTRY CADETSHIP SCHEME17 1948 to 1963

After the Second World War, a cadetship scheme was undertaken by the Australian Department of Territories to train Australian Forest Scientists to ensure sufficient professional staff for the purposes of creating a functional Forest Department for TPNG.

The cadetship scheme comprised two years at an Australian university undertaking an approved forestry science course, followed by a field year in TPNG to gain practical experience in all facets of forestry, followed by two years at the Australian Forestry School in Canberra. In later years, the field work requirements were changed to include all university vacations must be spent in PNG, thus reducing the training program by one year before graduation but still meeting the condition of 12 months field work. Surname

Edward Charles Gordon Gray (NG)

Alexander John Hart (NG)

Donald Henry McIntosh (NG19)

Kevin Joseph White (Q)

17 The appointments of Australian TPNG Forestry Cadets were summarized in LT Carron’s book in 2000 titled “A brief history of the Australian Forestry School (AFS).

18 Cadet Forest Officer pamphlet courtesy Des Harries 2019.

19 Don McIntosh Third Director of Forests PNG.

20 Joe Havel First Principal Bulolo Forestry College.

21 Fourth Principal Bulolo Forestry College.

22 Alan Cameron Schlich 1960.

Leon Clifford (NSW)23

Evan Shield (NG)

John Lake (NG)

Ian Currie (NG)

John Harrison (NG) Medi vac out

Chris Borough (NG) Field year

Bob Bruce (NG) no field year

Rex Grattidge (NG) no field year

John Davidson (NG)24 no field year

Paul Ryan (NG) no field year

Rod Holesgrove (NG) no field year

Jim Belford (C)

Dick McCarthy (NG) no field year

Dave Num (C)

R G Lyons (NG) no field year

Gary Archer (NG) no field year

Chris Done (NG) no field year.

Ken Hart (NG) no field year

Ian Whyte (C)

Abbreviations.

TPNG - Territory of Papua New Guinea, NG- New Guinea, Q – Queensland, WA – Western Australia, NSW- New South Wales, C- Commonwealth, AFS - Australian Forestry School, BFC - Bulolo Forestry College.

23 Leon Clifford Second Principal Bulolo Forestry College.

24 John Davidson Schlich Medal 1966; First Forestry Professor UNITECH

The Australian Forestry School Student Class of 1955

James Field BARDSLEY (Q)

Peter Alexis CASIMIR (NSW)

Andrew Leschen CLIFTON (WA)

Norman Charles CLIFTON (NZ)

Alan Keith HAMILTON (NZ)

Lloyd Wesley GAY (USA)

Ronald Thomas Gould GREAVES (ACT)

Harvey Siddick MARTYN (North Borneo)

John Terence MONAGHAN (NSW)

Robin Bilbrough MORWOOI) (NG)

Anthony Blair MOUNT (SA)

David Stanley Heath PREEST (NZ) - awarded Schlich Medal

Abdul RAHMAN ALI (Malaya)

Andris Guntars SKUJA (NSW)

Michael George WHITE (NSW)

Australian Forestry School 2013. Pphoto credit Dick Passauer.

AFS Fourth Year Students 1956. Robin is on the right in the front row.

Source ANU Open Research AFS collection.

AFS 1956 - the two years (1955,1956). Robin is second from right in second row from front.

Photo credit Dick Pegg.

1955 students with cigars at AFS dinner 1956 - Dick Pegg, Norm Clifton, Andy Kirkland, Hamilton, Peter Casimir, Elliot Tuckwell, Sein Win, Peter Tweedy, Robin Morwood. Source D Pegg, ANU Open Research AFS collection.

Dick Pegg25 recalled that in 1956, he played flanker on the left side of the scrum with the right side being played by Elliot Tuckwell, Robin Morwood, or Tony Mount.

Source D Pegg, ANU Open Research AFS collection.

1955 AFS football team. Source ANU Open Research AFS collection. .

Robin Morwood with Andy Kirkland (last head of NZ Forest Service). 1956 Games AFS.

Source D Pegg, ANU Open Research AFS collection.

1956 Games AFS - Games official, Tug of war, Slowest cyclist, Sporting gents R Morwood and A Kirkland.

Source ANU Open Research AFS collection.

1955 AFS Field work. Source ANU Open Research AFS collection.

Robin Morwood graduation.

Photo credit Norman Morwood.

EMPLOYMENT TPNG

In 1957 to 1961, Robin was the Forester-in-charge of Bulolo in its still formative stages and saw the plantation estate grow by some 1450 hectares to a total of 2,225 hectares.

The Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd (CNGT) plywood mill at Bulolo in the 1960’s. Behind the mill to the left is a prominent Bulolo topographic feature called the Susus. In Pidgin English translated as a woman’s breasts. The large klinkii trees were not harvested because they contained too much metal shrapnel. Allied pilots on their way back from attacking Japanese positions around Lae and Salamaua used this easily identified feature for course correction, target practice and a safe place to jettison any undelivered bombs before climbing over the gap in the Owen Stanley Ranges on their return to bases in port Moresby during WW II.

1963. The wide Bulolo Valley looking towards Bulolo township and airstrip in the middle distance. In the foreground are hoop and klinkii plantations with a thinning operation underway in one of the compartments on the right.

Photo credit John Davidson.

Photo credit John Davidson.

26Evan Shield served his field year in 1960 in Bulolo under Robin Morwood as OIC Bulolo/Wau ... Des Harries also remembered Robin well. As Evan recalled, Robin was married to Joan, the daughter of Frank Vickery

In 1960 in Wau, Robin Morwood married Joan Vickery the daughter of Frank Vickery (his father-in-law). Frank also worked for the Department of Forests in Bulolo.

27John Egerton attended Robin’s wedding to Joan in Wau.

From 1961 to 1962 (a period of some 14 months) Robin was relieving as the Principal Forest Officer, New Guinea Mainland Region, based in Lae.

Lae Photos 1962. Source Bob Grieve PNGAA.

Evan Shield personal Communication 17 October 2018.

Personal communication John Egerton.

ROBIN MORWOOD’S FATHER-IN-LAW FRANK VICKERY

NAME

Frank Vickery Died 1982

JOINED DEPT OF FORESTRY PNG 1946-1969 (23 years)

WHAT WAS YOUR OCCUPATION

Frank Vickery Forest Ranger Bulolo

Forest Ranger Bulolo

Robin’s father-in-law was Frank Tiplin Vickery. Frank was born on 9 February 1912. He joined the Australian Army in Wau on 31 January 1942. His Army number was NG 2412. He was discharged on 11th April 1946. His rank was Warrant Officer Class 2. He served in the unit ANGAU.

Early in 1944, the Australian Army decided to form under the Engineers, a unit to record the many sawmilling operations and make surveys of the forest resources, using all the advantages of operational mapping, air photos and transport facilities then available. The C.R.E. Jim McAdam of N.G. Forests was given authority to recruit as many personnel experienced in forestry as possible. Two officers of the pre-war service Mr. Cavanaugh and Mr. Vickery were recruited. The Air Force, the Navy, Malaria units, Engineers, the Infantry and Artillery all contributed with the result that there was concentration of foresters representing every state in Australia.

Frank Vickery enlisted in 1942 in Wau TPNG. His rank was Warrant Officer Class 2. The unit had come together about mid-1944 and for the next three months at Lae were out through an intensive training in recognition of New Guinea species and handling New Guinea conditions. Senior Officers of the unit closely followed the establishment of each new base to report on immediate timber supplies for operational purposes. During this time, a plan was drawn up for the survey of the timber resources of as much of the territories as possible. This survey was launched about the end of 1944 and continued till the War ended, and the units were disbanded about October 1945. One of the functions of the C.R.E. NG Forests, written in the instructions at its formation was “the maintenance of forestry records suitable for handing over to a Civilian Forest service at the appropriate time”.

Consequently, when the unit was disbanded, Mr. Vickery, by then the forest ranger at Bulolo, was left in charge of the records. He handed the records to Mr Cavanaugh, who was then the Reserve Settlement Officer, when he returned to the Islands in his civilian capacity.

He was the father-in-law of Robin Morwood (who died in 1962 in Bulolo) Robin married Franks’ daughter Joan.

28 Source Jim McAdam Paper to PNG academy of Science 1952

In PNGAF Mag # 9 of 15th March 2021 page 41, Dick McCarthy described the work of the unit and Frank Vickery’s role.

Visitors from Lae, Wau and Bulolo attended the dedication service of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles’ Honour Roll and 10th annual reunion dinner at Bulolo on Jan 19th, 1957.

The service was held at the Honour Roll which is in the school grounds and was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Abrams, Anglican Minister Wau/Bulolo and the Rev.Father Gregory of the Roman Catholic Church Lae.

Both spoke briefly but sincerely on the history of the unit, wreaths were then laid, and the Last Post sounded by a bugler of the Royal Papua – New Guinea Constabulary. After the service, dinner was held at Pine Lodge Hotel. Members attending were Messer’s Ted Spence, L E Ashton, Bill Lindsay, Bill grant, Alex Moore, Bert Lee, Fred Lesmond, Fred Hockey, Jim O’Brien, Bob Franklin, Les McClelland, Jack Sheringham, Les Lane, Jack Ingold, Ossie Bell, Eric Gibb, Bill Armstrong, Ted Latchford, Jim Cavanaugh, Neville Swanson, Tom Lega, Frank Vickery, Alex McLean, Gus Smart, Bob O’Neill and the Rev Mr Abrams and Father Gregory

The next reunion dinner will be on January 18th, 1958

Text 30 Morobe Men at Bulolo NGVR Reunion 19/1/1957.

At the time of his unfortunate death in November 1962, he had recently been promoted to becoming the Regional Forest Officer New Guinea Islands Region.

The Pacific Islands Monthly on 1 January 196332 (reported the death of Robin Morwood. Acting Principal Forest officer for the New Guinea mainland died at his home at Lae recently. He was 29. Mr Morwood, a Bachelor of Science joined the Administration in 1954 as a Cadet Forest Officer. He later attended the Australian Forestry School in Canberra where he obtained a Diploma in Forestry. In 1956, he was stationed at Wau, Bulolo, Port Moresby and finally Lae where he had been in charge of the Regional Forest Office for 14 months. Mr Morwood left a widow and a nine-month-old son Brian John.

33Commonwealth Forestry Association 1962 Newsletter reported the passing of Robin Morwood.

32 Pacific Islands Monthly of 1/11963 Vol XXX111 #6 p139 https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/258875967.

33 Commonwealth Forestry Association 1962 Newsletter

John Egerton34 attended Robin’s funeral in Lae.

Norm Morwood recalled that 35Robin died on 29 Nov 1962. He was Mt Isa on vacation practice at the end of 3rd year at Uni learning a bit about mining engineering. Roy (Robin’s dad) contacted him and let him know and requested that he repay some money he owed him as they were going to NG. No problem to do so when working with a decent wage underground. Not sure how the money transfer was done, telegraphic transfer? Norm can’t imagine how Roy and Ethyl managed to pay for what they did education wise for their 8 children.

Hazel Green nee Morwood 36 recalled that it is interesting and good that John Egerton was at the funeral. She knew our parents went to New Guinea after they heard of his death, to be with Joan and Brian, but it seems they were too late for the funeral? She was 16 at the time, so thinks it was in 1962

37Roslyn Godlee recalls that although she did not know the Morwoods, but sometime after Robin's death, Joan returned to Lae to arrange for a headstone to be placed on his grave. When Roslyn heard, she was coming to P.N.G. she invited her to come to Bulolo as their guest which also meant staying in the house, she and Robin had lived in. At the time of Robin's death their son Brian was 9 months old.

The Godlees were delighted she came. John had known her prior to her marriage as she was the daughter of Frank Vickery, a Forest Ranger working under Jim Cavanagh in Bulolo.

There was controversy over the headstone as Joan wanted the rock with a plaque arranged by the Forestry Department However, Robin's family wanted a formal headstone. As this all happened approximately 50 years ago Roslyn is not sure of the final decision.

Joan stayed for approximately a week, and they became good friends. Joan remarried to Tony Greensitt. They had two daughters Ruth and Lydia both of whom are now married with children. Joan visited the Godlees at their home in Wahroonga with the girls after Godlees had left P.N.G. in 1980.

Sadly, Joan’s husband died in 2000 from cancer.

38Dick Pegg (AFS 1956/1957 years) recalled memories of Robin Morwood reasonably well as he was a year ahead of him and originally from Queensland.

Several years later (probably about 1968), Dick met Robin’s wife Joan who was a parent accompanying primary school students on a field visit to the forest research station at Beerwah.

SON BRIAN MORWOOD

Brian Morwood centre with children Connor (left) and Eliza Morwood. Photo credit Brian Morwood.

Fittingly, Brian Morwood39 is now the Team Leader Customer Service Tingalpa Queensland for DINDAS Australia. From humble family beginnings more than 60 years ago, Dindas Australia has grown into a leading distributor in the Engineered Wood Products Industry.

Brian Morwood40 acknowledged the efforts of everyone for all the information on his Dad. His mother Joan has located more information on Robin and mentioned that her father Frank Vickery was involved in New Guinea forestry.

Norm Morwood41responded to Brian re the newspaper cuttings on Robin that brought a few tears. Very interesting. Does anyone know something about the Annual prize? Does it still exist? Any info on contacts that might provide info?

Dick McCarthy42 forwarded the draft PNGAF magazine to Brian on his father Robin. Fancy your mother Joan meeting Dick Pegg all those years later in Qld. Dick Pegg is still alive and was a year behind your dad at AFS.

Brian responded that his mother was very excited and talked about her time with Robin and how proud she was of him. His mother’s second married name was Greensitt. Brian reported that for his mother Joan, it brought back many memories for her She remembered every person mentioned in the article. Dick McCarthy responded that everyone was delighted that we could bring good memories back in what must have been a very sad time for your Mum.

Brian Morwood43 advised bush editor Dick McCarthy re draft PNGAF mag to go ahead as a very interesting read.

FIRST PRINCIPAL BULOLO FORESTRY COLLEGE JOE HAVEL 44 1961-1964.

SECOND PRINCIPAL BULOLO FORESTRY COLLEGE LEON CLIFFORD45 1965 TO 1970.

Forestry College Bulolo Group photo 1966. Staff and students. L to R Norma Collis; Olga Woolcott; Heiner Streimann; Arthur Ramsay; Leon Clifford; Evan Shield; Gerry Cullen; Vivienne Shield; Pat Cattanach. Photo Credit J Clifford

44 Source PNGAF MAG # 9B-5B4H7 Eminent TPNG forester Joe Havel 7 July 2022.

45 Source PNGAF MAG ISSUE # 9B-5B4C3 Eminent TPNG Forester Leon Clifford 17th Aug 2022.

THIRD PRINCIPAL BULOLO FORESTRY COLLEGE ROBIN ANGUS 1967-1976

FOURTH PRINCIPAL BULOLO FORESTRY COLLEGE JOHN GODLEE 19761980

Bulolo Forestry College Staff 1979.

Back Row Lto R. Eric Asari,Auberta Karo,Armstrong Bellamy, Osia Gideon,Alistar Hay, Bob Johns, Phil Franklin.

Front Row Lto R, Wayne Woofe, Klaus Romijn, John Godlee Principal, Siagi Kologo (incoming Principal), Ken Hart, Noel Peters.

Absent Barry Conn.

Photo credit Phil Pope.

Picture Source Bob John’s collection courtesy George Walker Bob’s Brother-in-law.

PNG INVESTIGATIONS RE ROBIN MORWOOD MEMORIALAWARD

Note Barnes46 fell asleep during the speeches.

The College was opened by the Minister for Teritories, The Hon. C.E.Barnes MP on the 3rd of August 1965. It was then known as the Papua and New Guinea Forestry School Bulolo.

Opening Papua New Guinea Forestry College 3rd Aug 1965. Note Australian motor bike policeman almost fell off the bike.

Photo credit Ian/John Smith.

1973 Bulolo Forestry College Graduation Programme

In 2019, senior Papua New Guinean foresters as Kanawi Pouru47 former Managing Director of NFS, Dr Ruth Turia, NS and UNITECH Forestry heads as Cossey Yosi, Prof Osia Gideon and Eko Maiguo were advised of the project and the write up of the Robin Morwood Memorial Trust awards by Dick McCarthy48 .

Kanawi Pouru advised that in the Bulolo Forestry College in the staff room building there is a wall with displays of names as Robin Morwood and Lane Poole etc. Kanawai cannot clearly recall the awarding of the Robin Morwood Award during his BFC student years of 19731975. However, he vaguely recalls some kind of leadership award was given to Kule-en Hamou (SRC President) in 1975 graduation.

The Principal of Bulolo Forestry College Eko Maiguo49 advised that he had gone through some old documents of the institution and found information on the Robin Morwood Memorial Prize. These showed that the Robin Morwood Memorial Prize was awarded to the best student in the year three of Forestry Diploma Program at the annual graduation ceremony. We have to do it again starting next year (2020).

Eko Maiguo50, the Principal Bulolo Forestry College Bulolo advised that Bulolo Forestry College will be awarding the Robin Morwood Memorial Prize to the best student of the threeyear forestry diploma course in 2020.

Dick McCarthy responded to Eko that it is most pleasing to hear that he will be awarding the Robin Morwood Memorial Prize to the best student of the three-year Forestry Diploma Program.

A follow by Dick McCarthy51 in 2022, to all players including Eko Maiguo, Dr Ruth Turia, Kanawai Pouru, Dr Cossey Yosi, Michael Pearson, Kulala Mulung, and Ken Mondai. During your times involved with BFC, do you recall the Robin Morwood award? It did exist in 1973 - I was there.

Eko Maiguo responded that Bulolo University College will begin awarding the Robin Morwood’ prize to a best student in the final of the program starting in the 2023 graduation ceremony. The graduation ceremonies at Unitech in the past two years were disturbed by covid-19 so we were not able to award this prize.

For your information, Bulolo University College will commence offering Bachelor of Forest Management (BFM) degree in 2023 and the first batch of successful students will graduate in 2027. This Degree program will replace the stand-alone Forestry Diploma which started in the 1970s.

Kulala Mulung52(former head Dept Of Forestry UNITECH Lae and now Deputy Managing Director, PNG Science and Technology Council Secretariat, Port Moresby) responded that he

is not sure if Forestry Department at Unitech and BUC do continue to honour the invaluable contributions by eminent leaders in forestry education and leadership by awarding students of exceptional standing and performance with such awards. It certainly is a noble and honourable cause and need to maintain such.

During his time as the head of Unitech Forestry Department, he created a Trust Fund called "John Simaga Award" from the money he earned through doing consultancy work. He authorised UDC an amount of K5000.00 as a seed capital to be deposited into that fund with the aim of ploughing back the profits toward student who performed well in dendrology and botany subject at the end of each academic year. The funds were administered and managed by the PNG Unitech Student Affairs Department by Mr Primus Dam, Senior Assistant Register who was tasked with this job. Mr Maiguo, current Principle of BUC remembers this well. Many of our ex-students were recipients of John Simaga award.

Kulala was planning to do the same in recognition of unparallel services by Professor Robert Bob Jones, Mr Kanawi Pouru, Mr Gabriel Samol and Dr Ruth Turia. Dr Ruth Turia was among the first Papua New Guinea female foresters to venture into male dominated field and had against all odds toiled and climbed in forestry ranks with admiration and respect to highest post in the Forestry Management

Coming back to the question of Robin Morwood There was such an award given to students graduating with diploma when I was there. Thank you, Dick McCarthy, for the continued support and interest to see forestry profession and the sector in PNG grow out of its current form and shape.

Dick McCarthy53 congratulated all PNG foresters on their continuing work in developing a sustainable forest management regime for PNG. Excellent work everyone. Remember that you have a vast supportive alumnus behind you comprising associated TPNG and PNG foresters past and present together with other lecturing staff to continually further your sustainable forestry training initiatives. The institution needs to make continual use of them. This makes the historical write up of Robin Morwood award more important.

Cossey Yosi54 responded that he joined Unitech in 2017/2018 and had been given the role of HOD here at the Taraka campus in 2020 but he had not heard or sighted any information about the Robin Morwood Award for the best Year 3 student at the Bulolo PNG Forestry College (now BUC) until just this year (2022), when BUC Principal Mr. Eko Maiguo briefed him.

However, it has been recorded that Forestry Training in PNG goes back in history and this is because of very brave men and women (Foresters) of the likes of Robin Morwood who have dedicated their lives in the past in the Forestry profession. It is good to let this legacy live on in the form of this award (Robin Morwood). Please let me know if there is anything I could do to ensure that the Robin Morwood Award continues at our Bulolo campus.

ACRONYMS

AAD Australian Antarctic Division

ACT Australian Capital Territory

ACIAR Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

ACLMP AusAid funded World Bank Land Mobilisation program.

ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific States

ADB Asian Development Bank

AEC Administrators Executive Committee

AFAP Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia & the Pacific Ltd.

ADB African Development Bank

AFLEGT African Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade

AFPNG Association of Foresters of PNG

AFS Australian Forestry School

AFTA Asean Free Trade Area

AIF Australian Infantry Forces

AMF Australian Military Forces

ANBG Australian National Botanical Gardens

ANGAU Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit

ANU Australian National University

APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

APMF Australian Paper Manufacturers Forestry Pty Ltd

APPM Australia Paper and Pulp Manufacturers

ARD Afforestation, Reforestation and avoided Deforestation

ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations

ASIO Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

ASOPA Australian School of Pacific Administration

ATIBT Association Technique Internationale des Bois Tropicaux

ATL Accelerated Tariff Liberalization

ATO African Timber Organization

AusAID Australian Aid Agency

BA basal area

BCOF British Commonwealth Occupational Force 1945-52

BDV Brussels Definition of Value

“Beer Time” Any time.

BFC Bulolo Forestry College

BGD Bulolo Gold Dredging Company

BNGD British New Guinea Development (Company Limited)

BUC Bulolo University College

C Commonwealth cm centimetre

CALM Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management

CBD Convention on Biological Diversity

CDM Clean Development Mechanism

CEFACT United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business

CEPT Common Effective Preferential Tariff

CERFLOR Certificate of Origin of Forest Raw Material, Brazil

CFA Commonwealth Forestry Association

CFE Community forestry enterprise

CGTM Cintra for Global Trade Model

CIF cost, insurance, freight

CIFOR Centre for International Forestry Research

CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

C & I Criteria and indicators

CNGT Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Bulolo

CO2 carbon dioxide

COC chain of custody

COP Conference of Parties

CPF Collaborative Partnership on Forests

CRE Commander Royal Engineers

CRE CRE is a term inherited by RAE from RE and is the term for the Commanding Officer of a RAE unit which is headed by a Lt Col. Although the officer is called the CRE the name is also used for the name of his unit.

E.g., CRE Aust Forestry Group or 1(NG Forests).

CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation

CHAH Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria

C&I Criteria and Indicators

C&L Certification and Labelling

CSD Commission on Sustainable Development (United Nations)

CTE Committee on Trade and Environment

DASF Dept of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries

DBH/ dbh Diameter at breast height

DEPT Department

DESA United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

DIES Department of Information and Extension Services

DIY Do-it-yourself

DPI Department of Primary Industry

DOF Department of Forests

DSB Dispute Settlement Body

EC European Commission ECA Export credit agency

ECE Economic Commission for Europe

ECOSOC Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

EEA European Economic Area

EFI European Forest Institute

EIA Environmental Investigation Agency

EMAS Eco-Management and Audit Scheme of European Union

EMS Environmental Management System

ENB East New Britain Province.

e.g. For example

ENGO Environmental Non-governmental Organisation

Etc et cetera (more of the same)

EU European Union

EVSL Early Voluntary Liberalisation

FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation

F &TB Forest and Timber Bureau Canberra

FIM Forest Information System

FMA Forest Management Agreement

FPRC Forest Products Research Centre Hohola

FRA Forest Resource Assessment

FRG Forest Red Gum

FRI Forest Research Institute Lae

Forkol Bulolo Forestry College

FSP/PNG Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific

FCCC See UNFCCC

FD Forest department

FDI Foreign direct investment

FIELD The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development

FLEGT Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade

FLEG Forest Law Enforcement and Governance

FLONAS National Forest logging concessions, Brazil

FOB free on board

FSC Forest Stewardship Council

FTAA Free Trade Area of the Americas

GAB Girth above buttress

Gbhob Girth breast height over bark

Gubab Girth under bark above buttress

GIS Geographic Information Systems

G8 Group of Eight (leading economies)

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GDP Gross Domestic Product

GEF Global Environment Facility

GFTN Global Forest and Trade Network

GFPM Global Forest Products Model

GHG greenhouse gas

GIS Geographical information system

GMO genetically modified organism

GNP Gross National Product

GPA Plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement

GSP Generalized System of Preferences

GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit

ha hectare

IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

IEA International Energy Agency

IFA Institute of Foresters of Australia

IFY International Year of the Forest

IADB Inter-American Development Bank

IBAMA Amazon Environmental Institute, Brazil

ICA International Commodity Agreement

ICCI International Conference on C&I for Sustainable Forest Management

IDB Inter-American Development Bank

IEA International Environmental Agreement

IEC International Electrical Commission

IFC International Finance Corporation

IFF Intergovernmental Forum on Forests

IHPA International Hardwood Products Association

IIED International Institute for Environment and Development

IMF International Monetary Fund

INGO International Non-Governmental Organisations

IPC Integrated Programme for Commodities

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPF Intergovernmental Panel on Forests

ISO International Organization for Standardisation

ITC International Trade Centre

ITTA International Tropical Timber Agreement

ITTC International Tropical Timber Council

ITTO International Tropical Timber Organization

IUCN The World Conservation Union

IWPA International Wood Products Association

JICA Japanese International Cooperation Agency

L of N League of Nations

LRRS Land Resource Soils Survey (branch of CSIRO)

LCA Life Cycle Analysis

LEEC London Economic and Environmental Centre

LEI Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute

LULUCF Land Use, Land Use Change and Forests

m3 cubic metre

MCCAF McCarthy & Associates (Forestry) Pty. Ltd.

MHA Member of House of Assembly PNG

MM Military Medal

MUS Malayan Uniform System

MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreement

MFN Most Favoured Nation

MIGA Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MTTC Malaysian Timber Certification Council

n.a. not available

NAA National Archives Australia

NARI National Agriculture Research Institute

NB New Britain

NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement

NGO Non-Governmental Organisation

NHLA National Hardwood Lumber Association

NRRP Natural Resources and Rights Program

NT National Treatment

NTB non-tariff barrier

NTCC National Timber Certification Council

NTFP non-timber forest product

NTM non-tariff measures

NWFP non-wood forest product

NDS Northern District Sawmills

NFCAP PNG National Forestry and Conservation Action Plan

NGM New Guinea Mainland

no. number

NG New Guinea

NGF New Guinea Forces (relates to plant collection of Lae Herbarium)

NGIB New Guinea Infantry Battalion

NGI New Guinea Islands

NGO Non-Government Organisation

NGVR New Guinea Volunteer Rifles

NZ New Zealand

NSW New South Wales

NTSC National Tree Seed Centre PNG Bulolo

OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

OTO Office of Trade and Investment Ombudsman

OIC Officer in Charge

OISCA Organisation for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement International Japan.

OTML Ok Tedi Mining Ltd

P or p page

PEFC Pan European Forest Certification Scheme

PIB Papuan Infantry Battalion

PIR Pacific Islands Regiment

PNG Papua New Guinea

PNGAA Papua New Guinea Australia Association

PNGAF Papua New Guinea Australian Foresters Magazine Series

PNGFA Papua New Guinea Forest Authority

PNGFIA PNG Forest Industries Association

PNGRIS Papua New Guinea Resource Information System

PNGUT PNG University of Technology

POM Port Moresby

P&C Principles and Criteria

PEFC Pan-European Forest Certification Framework

PGA Plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement

PPM production and processing method

PPP Polluter Pays Principle (other meaning Purchasing Power Parity)

QLD Queensland

QF Queensland Forestry

RAE Royal Australian Engineers/Australian Army

RPC Royal Papuan Constabulary

RRA Rapid Resource Appraisal

RIIA Royal Institute of International Affairs

RIL reduced impact logging

RFE Russia Far East

RTA Regional Trade Agreement

RWE roundwood equivalent

SAP structural adjustment programme

SPS Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

SFM Sustainable Forest Management

SGS Société General de Surveillance

SMS Selective Management System Malaysia

SP South Pacific

SPWP Secondary Processed Wood Products

sq m square metres

TAG Trade Advisory Group of ITTO

TSS Tropical Shelterwood System

TBT Technical Barriers to Trade

TFF Tropical Forest Foundation

TFRK traditional forest-related knowledge

TNC Transnational corporation

TRAINS Trade-Basic Indicators of UNCTAD

TREM trade-related environmental measures

TRIM Trade Related Investment Measures

TRIP Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

UK United Kingdom

UN United Nations

Unasylva Journal of FAO of UN

UNCCD United Nations Programme to Combat Desertification

UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

UNCSD United Nations Committee on Sustainable Development

UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNESCO United Nations Economic and Social Council

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

UNFCCC Framework Convention on Climate Change of United Nations

UNFF United Nations Forum on Forests US,

USTR Office of the US Trade Representative

UNE University of New England Armidale NSW

UNEP United Nations Environment Program

UNI University

UNITECH University of Technology Lae PNG

UNRE University of Natural Resources and Environment

UPNG University of Papua New Guinea

UQ University of Queensland

US United States

USA United States of America

USD United States dollar

TPNG Territory of Papua and New Guinea

TUBL Territory United Brewery Ltd

TA Timber Area

TA Timber Authority

TRP Timber Rights Purchase

Vol volume

VSF Victorian School of Forestry

WA Western Australia

WB World Bank

WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Centre

WCO World Customs Organisation

WSSD World Summit for Sustainable Development

WTO World Trade Organization

WWF World Wide Fund for Nature