After having read all 673 pages of reminiscent waffle about your "good old days in PNG", I have decided you are all remarkably soft.
Now when I was up there, the colonial policies of the time included extension of slavery to anyone who didn't have a knighthood and shooting anyone without a twirled moustache and gin and tonic in hand.
WWII wrecks were yet to grace the landscape and when they did, they were dime a dozen. Several japs, who refused to believe the war was over, menaced villagers in the hills north of Milne Bay.
Sliced bread was not yet invented, but they were pretty close to a major breakthrough.