I’ll post this here and not on Kagamunga’s toksave about Sir Michael’s passing.
I spoke to my sister about some of the Somare children who went to boarding school in Lismore NSW. He was PM then and visited Lismore occasionally. Bertha Somare was in the year behind my sister. Both had common school friends of an Australia family who’s father had worked in PNG. Janice R.....
Bertha spent holidays nearby with them (I’ll deidentify). Janice R.... brother Peter R .... who I knew was at one time the boyfriend of L....Parr, sister of Andy Parr ex Talair (P2-ISG Mt Masaka).
i’m thinking somewhere in this is perhaps Andy’s decision to go to PNG.
RIP both good men.
My sister sent this of Sir Michael meeting Bertha in Lismore. (search Bertha Somare St Mary’s High School Lismore).
Bertha started high school 1978. ?RAAF aircraft in background transported PM to Lismore ....1978-1983.
