Dad's Territory of New Guinea coins from 1938 - 1945

    Some shillings from 1936 to 1945 when my part of Papua New Guinea (on the New Guinea side) was then called Territory of New Guinea.

I have since been informed that cleaning any old coins will lose its value.  I cleaned mine that I made up for necklaces.  Any coin experts who wish to comment on their views and opinions and want to share it with public;  are welcome to comment but I do not access my Blogs every day so sometimes it might take a couple of days for me to approve.

In response to one of my Comment below from a Jimmy querying about the above coin I have inserted a couple of weblinks

What the shilling looks like on this side

1 Shilling - George VI - 1938 - 1945 - Numista

1938 shilling - Territory of New Guinea coin from Papua New Guinea - Omnicoin

This weblink explains the history of the time also of Papua and New Guinea under the pictures

I had these 3 shilling made up in May some time as necklaces and this is what is looks like when it's clean.

The draw string bag the necklaces were put in once the lady had done them up

What it looks like on the other side

The 3 shillings made for the future mother, father and child

Gift to the future father of my child, sent to him in May 2011 whilst on deployment in Western Europe

 This is from my other Blog

http://daysinthelifeofwendyinher42ndyear.blogspot.com/2011/02/aussie-diggers-diary-based-on-huon-gulf.html

Tells you a bit of the history of war time New Guinea the Huon Peninsular Campaign in North New Guinea, might be able to help you a bit to understand the history side.

Disclaimer:  I accept no responsibility or liability of any loss to any incorrect or out dated information some of these websites may contain.  The most accurate up to date information at the time known to me is inserted in these pages.  It is the responsibility of the individual to do their own research in their own time.  This is just a guide to assist people in giving them as much information as I possibly can to assist them in preparing for a trip to PNG or wanting to learn about PNG.  My views and opinions and experiences will not exactly reflect other peoples' views and opinions and experiences.

This material is copyright © Wendy J. Seymour 2011 - Exempt the hyperlinks they are from the World Wide Web (WWW) - the photos taken by Wendy J. Seymour

Northern Territory (NT), Australia Tribute Post

To be continued (Last updated Thursday, 27 April 11)

Easter Saturday, 23 April 2011 @ Buley Rockhole, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Well after living in Darwin for 8 years I have decided to move back to the East Coast of Australia.  There were times when I used to bag the Northern Territory (NT), and wished I'd have left the place a lot sooner.  However anyone who tells me they are bored on the weekend up here has got to be out of their mind.  There is heaps to do in the NT, especially if you or someone you know owns a boat or like fishing, love the outdoors, camping, driving, picnicing, whatever your fancy.  After I had completed my Tourism studies here in the NT, I was interested in working in Domestic Tourism here in the NT, but ended up working for the Australian Defence Force (ADF)  for the next 3 years afterwards (which was not a bad thing at all, sometimes these things happens.)  The NT is one of Australia's main Tourism destination both for International and Domestic Travellers. I was able to build up my Tourism knowledge whilst studying at the Charles Darwin University (CDU), Palmerston Campus.  I also know that not everyone is interested in living in a 5 star accommodation and that the most expensive time of the year in the NT is the Tourist season, so it pays to do your own home work and shopping when looking for discounts.  Locals may not feel the costs as such but outsiders will definately feel it if they do not know where to look for bargains. 

Such discount offers could be found with some of the following groups just to give you a couple of examples:

International Youth Travellers
Youth Hostel Associations
Australian Senior Citizens Cards

All such information are on my Pages to right where you can click on to :

Australia - All the specific travel information you need to know; and

Australian Domestic Travellers Page

Bear in mind that I am still updating these Pages as I still have more information to put on them.  It is just a matter of taking the time out to do this, as I am also in the middle of packing and holidays at the moment.

Best places to do your food shopping especially for the International traveller  I would recommend are:

Coles/Stores and Services - Location and Trading Hours

Woolworths - Stores Locator

If you have a Rewards Cards, Fly Buy Cards or for those of you who are from overseas and know you can get discounts on whatever you can, use it to your advantage.  Accumulating points, rewards, bonus just might save you a lot of money.  I know I rely on my Rewards Cards to help me to accumulate my QANTAS Frequent Flyer Points and that my Coles Fly Buy Cards might help me with my Christimas shopping at the end of the year (depending on how much points I have accumulated.)  Always read the fine print and read what they have on offer carefully if unsure ask.  I make it a habit to read properly word to word nowadays as I am actually a skim reader and some times do not read properly til I go back and read it again properly then I realise the information was relevent for me to know.  If you have lots of money and can spend to your hearts content well good on you, this Post or the Pages is not for you then.

In the mean time to read the Northern Territory hyperlink Tourism information please go to Pages on your right and click on to

Northern Territory (NT), Australia Tribute Page - all the relevent NT Tourism websites will be inserted in here.

Take notice of the websites I am recommending they are actually Official websites and not third party agency types websites.  They are the kind of websites I usually use how ever they may not necessarily may be what you are looking for.

Feel free to contribute your own opinions or share whatever it is you want to share with others.  Comments are monitored by me but you'll find I'll approve it.  I hardly ever get many comments anyway otherwise they welcome on my Blog (depending the tone and content of the comment.)

Disclaimer:  I accept no responsibility or liability of any loss to any incorrect or out dated information some of these websites may contain.  The most accurate up to date information at the time known to me is inserted in these pages.  It is the responsibility of the individual to do their own research in their own time.  This is just a guide to assist people in giving them as much information as I possibly can to assist them in preparing for a trip to the Northern Territory,Australia or wanting to learn about the Northern Territory,Australia.  My views and opinions and experiences will not exactly reflect other peoples' views and opinions and experiences.


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I still call australia home - Peter Allen

Wendy's Photos Of Some Of Her Australian Travels

To be continued (Last update Fri, 08 Apr 11)



Nightcliff Jetty, Nightcliff Northern Territory June 2006

Low tide at Front Beach Thurday Island, Torres Straits, Queensland



Mitchell River Walk, Bairnsdale, Victoria January 2008







Australian Budget/Backpackers Accomdation and other information

Watch This Post!

Australian Domestic Travellers Page



To be continued (Last update Fri, 08 Apr 11)



Gove Lookout, Arnhem land, Northen Territory (NT), August

2008

Finally!  I have created the page for the DomesticTraveller in Australia.  I travelled parts of Australia with dad and mum in the car, first of course we had to fly in from PNG to Australia.  Dad told me how much he loved driving and how he enjoyed viewing different parts of the country otherwise any other time we would catch the bus to country New South Wales (NSW), to Willow Tree and Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT); and other parts of country NSW where uncle Laurie and aunty Beryl  and other relatives and friends lived at the time.  The other trip was to Brisbane, Queensland (QLD) where we would stay with uncle Tom and aunty Sondra.  Those are my earliest and fondest memories of travelling around Australia.  In the Willow Tree hyperlink you will see something about History and 5 generations of Barwick family, who are my Australian relatives on dad's side of the family.  Nana Seymour's family.

Nana Lila Seymour (nee Barwick) and my cousin Mandy 1970's





On the train passing through Willow Tree in August 2010











During my teenage years when my sister Jo and I could not fly home to PNG during school holidays,we would catch the bus to Brisbane, to uncle Tom and aunty Sondra.  At the time we would catch Mc Cafferty's Buses now taken over by Greyhound.  I now catch Greyhound if I decide to catch a bus anywhere in Australia.  Unfortunately I left everything late in life and one of them was my driver's licence, otherwise I'd be driving and not catching buses and trains and planes.

I also travelled a lot through the Australian Army as an Active Reservists and a full time service personnel, up Cape York Peninsula, the Torres Straits, Mount (Mt) Isa, and parts of Western Australia and New South Wales and the Northern Territory.  I travelled these places by army transport the Caribou, Hercules a navy dive boat called the Malu Baizam and army vehicles.  I went to places that tourists would dream of going to "off the beaten track."  I even went on a small joy ride around Cairns, Far North Queensland in an Australian Army Black Hawke Helicopter.

Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Dive/Launch BoatMalu Baizam Oct 1995

 The Australian Domestic Traveller's Page will list all the reputable transports in Australia and holiday accommodation websites, etc.  Those of you who are insured with your states automobile/car insurance eg NRMA or AANT, they should be able to give you information and discounts to any parts of Australia you are thinking of driving or travelling to.

Please click go to Pages on your right under Home and the link Australian Domestic Travellers Page.  I hope the information in there might be able to help you.





Disclaimer:  I accept no responsibility or liability of any loss to any incorrect or out dated information some of these websites may contain.  The most accurate up to date information at the time known to me is inserted in these pages.  It is the responsibility of the individual to do their own research in their own time.  This is just a guide to assist people in giving them as much information as I possibly can to assist them in preparing for a trip to Australia or wanting to learn about Australia.  My views and opinions and experiences will not exactly reflect other peoples' views and opinions and experiences.

This material is copyright © Wendy J. Seymour 2011 - Exempt the hyperlinks they are from the World Wide Web (WWW)

BLOGs I am following in regards to PNG

To be continued...(last update Wednesday, 21 September 2011) - I am aware needs to be tidied up a bit.

Well now the new PNG Government is on Facebook here is Post Link New Papua New Guinea Government in regards to them.  For those of you who are into politics and want to keep updated.

When I first created this Post I had not been in PNG for 14 years, but the opportunity presented itself, which you can read in this Blog Post on this link Visited PNG After 14 Years But Headed To Kokoda, Oro Province.

So now I have first hand experience about the situation over there and about travelling over there .  Which I will give up to date information on in regards to vaccinations and immunisation and how they do things in PNG in regards to these.  I prefer to experience things myself because I am over people carrying on about danger and so forth in PNG, when there are other countries in the world that are more dangerous than PNG.  For example if you read your Travel Insurance properly you will see that most will say they will not cover you if you travel to Afghanistan and such places.  I have inserted one Travel insurance web link just to give you an idea of what I am talking about.

For those of you who really want to know about the current the situation in PNG at the moment. I recommend you click on to the following  two PNG based Journalist Blogs:

Malum Nalu Blogspot - Malum Nalu

Geoffrey Heard's Pngtimetraveller Blogspot - Geoffrey Heard

Other Blogs that might be of interest

Keith Jackson's PNG Attitude

Melanesian Way Blog

Papua New Guinea Blogs

Expat-blog - Blog written by expatriates in Papua New Guinea, living in Papua New Guinea, working in Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea Life - Story from a Volunteer called NOMAD - An old Blog but interesting from someone who did Volunteer Work over there...

University Of California Press Blog on Papua New Guinea

Click on their Blogs and read all about them and I will probably add other Bloggers later on when I find them.  Otherwise just type in Papua New Guinea Blogs in Google/Bling (whatever search engine you use) and it will bring up all these Blogs you can read.

Other PNG Bloggers for those of you interested in Children's Charity Organisations you can look to your right and under Pages Home click on the link Papua New Guinea Charity Organisation of the 21st Century

Papua New Guinea and South Pacific/Asia Others - Current Charity Organisations of the 21st Century

In the mean time below is a Blog on one of the Children's Charity Organisation in PNG:

Tembari Children's Care (TCC) - Tembari Children's Care (TCC)  Inc -

THE Tembari Children's Care (TCC) Inc is a day care facility at ATS Oro Settlement, 7-Mile, outside of Port Moresby, PNG. To date, it takes care of 175 former street children - orphans, abandoned and the unfortunate - by serving them meals twice a day, and providing them early education. Assistance - food and money - is sent by supporters who find merit in the services we provide to these children. At The Center, they are family. For all of these, we need support that is sustainable.



Please bear in mind that this BLOG is updated once or twice on a weekly basis or more. 

Disclaimer:  I accept no responsibility or liability of any loss to any incorrect or out dated information some of these websites may contain.  The most accurate up to date information at the time known to me is inserted in these pages.  It is the responsibility of the individual to do their own research in their own time.  This is just a guide to assist people in giving them as much information as I possibly can to assist them in preparing for a trip to PNG or wanting to learn about PNG.  My views and opinions and experiences will not exactly reflect other peoples' views and opinions and experiences. 

This material is copyright © Wendy J. Seymour 2011 - Exempt the hyperlinks they are from the World Wide Web (WWW)