Way back in 1996 whilst I was living and working in Cairns, I bumped into a fellow Papua New Guinean who was there for the week doing some shopping with his girlfriend at the time. We exchanged names and numbers and suggested we should catch up before he departed. The very next day he gave me a call, It seemed that he had spent the day at the Cairns Horse races (the Casino was still under construction then)and he had encountered a minor financial problem and was unable to continue to stay at his hotel as a result...
I, of course went and picked the young couple up and brought them home to my place where I immediately offered them my son’s bedroom, relegating my sons to the lounge room floor. That is what we do, as Papua New Guineans’, we always try to help anyone any way we can. They stayed with me for a week and flew back to Port Moresby where he was employed by a Government department.