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
Marienburg, Papua New Guinea Marienburg, Papua New Guinea A town located near the mouth of the Sepik River in the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. In 1913, in what was then German New Guinea, missionaries of the Catholic Society of the Divine Word established at settlement here. It was the first European settlement on the Sepik. The settlement's main industry was milling timber floated downriver and, to aid this, one of the first railways in the country was built to transport timber from the river to the sawmill. It was drawn by buffalo. The town was occupied during the Japanese invasion of