Remember those pre-glued photo albums of yesteryears? You pulled back that transparent coversheet, placed your photos on the sticky stuff, and rolled the cover-sheet back over it again. Almost fifty years later, the photos are still in almost-mint condition but there's no way of prising them off that glue again.
Having just bought one of those new print-and-scan CANON gadgets, I scanned a few of those glued-down photos to share with you. They all date back to my time with the Bougainville Copper Project in 1970/71.
And when I wasn't cutting contractors' progress claims down to size for ten hours a day six days a week, I freelanced as tax agent and was also a Justice of the Peace.
I must've done hundreds of tax returns at $25 a piece which was serious money at a time when, in the currency of the day, a whole carton of beer cost a mere $7.50. My remit extended as far as the Commissioner of Taxation in Canberra and the Commissioner of Inland Revenue in Wellington with whom I had lengthy correspondence to exempt my "clients" from paying tax at home on their "world income" if their stay in New Guinea fell short of the required 183-day rule in Australia or the twelve months' required absence from New Zealand.
And in mid-1972 I came back for more as Office Manager for Camp Catering Services - see here and here:
All good memories!
