Papua New Guinea Hockey Federation Papua New Guinea Hockey Federation The Papua New Guinea Hockey Federation is the governing body of Field Hockey in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Oceania. Its Headquarters are in Boroko, NCD, Port Moresby, PNG. It is affiliated to IHF International Hockey Federation and OCF Oceania Hockey Federation. Kaluwin Potuan is the President of Hockey Association of PNG and Thomas Kahai is the General Secretary. Papua New Guinea at the 2015 Pacific Games#Field hockey PNG hosted the World League Qualifier for the Hockey World Cup in its capital city of Port Moresby in July 2016. PNG Hockey Federation announced its men’s and
Provinces of Papua New Guinea the PNG national parliament. The 22 provincial members are chosen from single-member electorates. Each provincial member becomes governor of their province unless they take a ministerial position, in which case the governorship passes to an open member of the province. Immediately before independence on 16 September 1975, Papua New Guinea was divided into nineteen provinces and the National Capital District. These provinces corresponded to the "Districts" of the pre-Independence administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. It had been considered that an independent state with limited resources could ill afford the infrastructure of a two-level quasi-federal governmental structure.