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.
Lawrence Titimur outlines how he worked for TUC for six years with John Paska and a Sri Lankan trade unionist to rejuvenate the TUC. He states that in 1987 he represented the Ok Tedi workers in their dispute regarding housing.
Lawrence Titimur relates how he was approached by Henry Moses, President of the Bougainville Mining Workers Association, to become General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress. He relates how he accepted and appointed John Paska as his deputy.
Lawrence Titimur describes how he won a scholarship in Grade 6 for Wolaroi College in Orange, NSW, where he spent four years Grade 7-10, 1969-72. He remembers completing an assignment on the trade union movement in Australia at school. He states that the schooling of so many PNGs in Australia was a scheme that helped contribute talent to the PNG public service.
Charles Lepani relates how he left the union movement to join the National Planning Office in 1974 and became head of that organisation one year later with a group of expatriate staff from Canada, Australia, and USA. He states that the office planned and developed policies for new expenditure and new priorities.
