Papua new guinea biography of william
William Tongamp
Papua New Guinean politician
Dr. William Tongamp (born 23 November 1973) is a member of parliament in Papua New Guinea. He won the governor seat of Papua New Guinea's Jiwaka Province in 2012 General Elections. Prior to that he was an Association Professor and Postdoctoral research fellow at Akita University in Japan after completing his PhD in Mineral Processing in Tohoku University in Japan.
Tongamp, while a Postdoctoral Research fellow published several articles, with other research fellows, in Mineral and Chemical engineering and Hydrometallurgy, Mechanochemical Route for Synthesizing Nitrate Form of Layered Double Hydroxide, Precipitation of arsenic as Na 3AsS 4 from Cu 3AsS 4–NaHS–NaOH leach solutions, A Mechanochemical Approach to Generate Hydrogen for Cellulose, Generation of hydrogen from polyvinyl chloride by milling and heating with CaO and Ni(OH)2 and several others.
He left Japan in 2011 to contest for elections in Papua New Guinea which he won the governor seat and to this day he is a member of parliament.
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William George Lawes (from wikipedia)William George Lawes (1839-1907)
English-born, first worked in Reading (where he seems to have met with George Rolleston), later London Missionary Society missionary, linguist and lecturer. In 1858 he volunteered for service with the London Missionary Society, ordained into the Congregational ministry in November 1860 and immediately travelled to Niue (then known as the Savage Islands). In 1872 he toured Britain lecturing about his missionary work. In 1874 he began work in Papua (now part of Papua New Guinea), working on the south coast of New Guinea, and based with his family in Port Moresby and later Vatorata. In 1877 Lawes was joined by a colleague James Chalmers. In 1885 Lawes published Grammar and Vocabulary of Language spoken by Motu Tribe, New Guinea. He acted as advisor to Sir Peter Scratchley and William Macgregor. In 1891 Lawes carried out a lecture tour of Australia where he retired to in 1906.
See his Dictionary of National Biography entry here.
See his wikipedia entry here.
See his Australian Dictionary of Biography entry here.
See Joseph King, 1909 W. G. Lawes of Savage Island and New Guinea (London)
Archives of his assistant Robert Lister Turner including a history of the London Missionary Society in Papua from 1871 including Lawes' work, details here, see ADB entry above for further links to archival holdings for Lawes.
W.G. Lawes 1880. 'Notes on New Guinea and his inhabitants' Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. vol 2 No 10 (1880) pp. 602-616
W.G. Lawes 1882. 'New Guinea and its people' Popular Science Monthly vol 20 (January 1882) available here
W.G. Lawes 1884. 'Recent explorations in south-eastern New Guinea' Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. vol vi No 4 (April 1884) pp. 216-218
W.G. Lawes 1885. Grammar and vocabulary of language spoken by Motu tribe, New Gu Sergeant William Matpi (PN417 and later Warrant Officer NG1820) was from Powat village in the Lorengau region on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinean actor William Takaku (died 3 January 2011) was a Papua New Guineanfilm, television and theatreactor. He was also a screenwriter and a former theatre director. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he travelled far from his birthplace on the island of Bougainville, as a storyteller and spokesperson for his people. They had recently expelled from the island copper mining operations which had been polluting the river they depended upon. In June 1991, he was a guest speaker and storyteller at the International Gathering of Mother Earth's People, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 1975, as a celebration of Independence, William and a PNG colleague, Matalau, were chosen by the director of NIDA (Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art, in Sydney) to undertake a year-long special Acting Course. He studied under Alexander Hay with other teachers including Keith Bain, Jicky Martin and Aubrey Mellor. Other students in their cohort were Mel Gibson, Judy Davis and Steve Bisley. He acted roles in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), The Tempest (Caliban) and Chekhov’s Swan Song (Svetlovidov). In 1981, William returned to NIDA to complete the Dilploma in Directing. In the Directing Course he studied along with Gale Edwards, Mark Gaal and Musa bin Musa. He was for a time director of the National Theatre Company in Papua New Guinea. He co-wrote, with Albert Toro, and directed the television miniseriesWarriors in Transit (1992). Takaku has also directed the Milne Bay Provincial Theatre Group. As an actor, he co-starred as Man Friday alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Robinson Crusoe (1997) and he appeared as Magnus in the television miniseries The Violent Earth (1998). 1980, Eberia. 1985, Medea. A Dream for Melanesia. For Our Tomorrow. Gilgamesh. The Jawsharp Warrant Officer 2 William Matpi
Matpi was educated at a Lutheran school on Manus Island before moving to Rabaul, New Britain to look for paid work. When the Japanese invaded Rabaul in 1942 he was working for the government surveyor, A.A. Chauncey. Despite two attempts to escape and hide in the bush he was among the 1200 men pressganged by the Japanese and shipped to Gona to work on the Kokoda Tail. He escaped early and joined the Australian and Papuan troops. After enlisting with the Papuan Infantry Battalion he saw service at Buna, Sanananda, Salamaua, Lae, Finschhafen, parts of Madang and the Sepik region and finally Rabaul. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his military service, one of only three Papua New Guinean soldiers to receive the award.
In February 1945, Matpi was among a group of New Guinean soldiers who protested against the inequality of pay and conditions between Australian and native troops in the New Guinea Infantry Battalion. On 6 Feb 1945, a fight broke out at battalion headquarters over the request that New Guinean troops wear their rank on their laplaps rather than arms. At an inquiry into the incident, Matpi stated that Papuan and new Guinean troops were owed equality of pay and uniforms with the Australian troops they fought alongside.
Matpi left the army in 1946 as Warrant Officer Mapti, the highest rank allowed to him within the system at the time.
In 1954, Matpi was part of a Papua New Guinean delegation to Cairns to meet the Queen on her tour of Australia.William Takaku
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Unpublished Plays by William Takaku