Matilda Pilacapio relates how after her daughter was born in 1969 she left Samarai Island and went back to the plantation on the mainland as her husband was away often, before moving to Woodlark Island. She reaclls the sadness around losing her father in 1970.
Matilda Pilacapio discusses how she was treated by the whites in PNG, saying she mixed well. She recalls joining the Girl Guides Movement and then took her uniform back and joined the Boy Scouts instead and became a cub master. She states that Samarai was a small island and everyone played soccer or cricket and mixed together.
Matilda Pilacapio describes working on Samarai Island in 1964 as an assistant ledger machinist for Burns Philp and the racial segregation of work in the office. She states that she was trained to use the ledger machine.