Burns Philp / Badilli Club 1970-72

Hi

I just came across this site and it brought back a lot of good memories and started me wondering if I could catch up with old friends from Club Germania in the early 70's...is it still there?

I worked at the vehicle maintenance shop for BP in Port Moresby 1970-72. Wally Utz was the manager.

Looking to see if anybody can remember Donny Leto (Ela Motors), Bob Finnel (Port Moresby Transport), Colin Podmore, Pete Butler,or anybody who was around the Badilli club at that time.

Jimmie Tremble
Tega Cay, South Carolina

Hey Jimmie,
Did you know Freddie Mertens and his family?

Hi Nette

Thanks for the response...but I'm sorry, Freddie Mertens name does not ring a bell...was he and his family around the Badili club in the early 70's... were you also in Papua New Guinea at that time?

Jimmie

Hi again Jimmie,
Freddie was a friend of my Dads, his wife's name was Inge. He worked for the electricity commission but I can't remember exactly where they lived, just Moresby. He had two boys a few years older than me I think one was called Mark, but again, it was so long ago.
I was born in Lae in 1967. My parents were Klaus and Gill Herrmann and they owned a couple of mechanical workshops. ( Voco Motors and before that, HC Motors with my grandparents, Charlie and Iris Cole) I also lived on Bougainville for a few years. I remember more people from Lae, But I always remember stopping over with the Mertens traveling through to Brisbane.
If you knew anyone from Lae around the same times we might find some common ground. It's a shame, I enjoy talking to people with NG memories, A woman with a toddler in the day care centre I work in is my age and was in Lae at the same time and it fascinates us that we have the same feelings of home for Lae. And both wish that our kids could have had the same kind of childhood.
Were you born in Papua? How long were you there?
Annette

PS My Mother worked for Burns Philp in Lae as a teenager. Her maiden name was Sykes.