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
History of Papua New Guinea a major campaign of the Pacific War. In all, some 200,000 Japanese soldiers, sailors and airmen died during the campaign against approximately 7,000 Australian and 7,000 American service personnel. Australian naval vessels have arrived in Papua New Guinea to protect leaders at a summit of Pacific Rim nations next week,giving foretaste of the newly elevated defence relationship between the two neighbors. Following the surrender of the Japanese in 1945, civil administration of Papua as well as New Guinea was restored, and under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act, (1945–46), Papua and New Guinea were combined in an administrative union.