Ethel Arek discusses her husband Paulus Arek buying shares in Bougainville Copper Mine for the Popondetta Workers' Club in 1967 and reselling them knowing that there was going to be trouble for the mine in the future.
Ethel Arek states that after the election loss Paulus Arek returned to teaching primary school in Popondetta where he became headmaster and also started the Northern District Workers' Association to support plantation workers. She also describes the foundation of the Popondetta Workers' Club to get control over workers' drinking and the running of the club.
