Henry Chow relates how his well known reputation as a boat builder led to his nomination to join the Rabaul Chamber of Commerce and becoming Vice-President. He describes how he and his wife fundraised for charities, raising money for the Cathedral in Rabaul. He relates how he was nominated for the Rabaul Town Council, later becoming chair of the combined council of East New Britain from 1967-73.
Henry Chow discusses his mother's education by German nuns at the Catholic mission in Kokopo and how his grandfather had converted to Catholicism and started the building of the Chinese Catholic School in Rabaul. He discusses his own education prior to World War II.
Charles Lepani discusses the role of the central planning document Papua New Guinea Vision 2050 (Government of PNG, 2009), and the process for setting priorities when he was head of National Planning Office. He discusses the importance of key issues: subsistence sector production, relevance to tradition in business activities, co-operatives and community-based organisations, and decentralisation. He states that the Little Red Book predicted population growth requiring a Population Policy which attracted criticism from the Catholic church.
Michael Somare outlines the challenges before Independence including the threat of Independence in Bougainville and the role of Momis, and keeping the predominantly Catholic Bougainville within the fold. He discusses the CPC visit to Rorovana village and confrontations during the CPC visit.
