MW6-105 - Interview with Andy Sieghers, Malaytown, Rabaul (Continued)

Tape#2: General Rabaul Town Community Experiences Side A&B: Andy Seigers from the Ambonese community continues conversations about the residents and ethnic groups of Rabaul town mainly mixed race, chinese, micronesians, polynesians and europeans who would socially meet and interact at the Kambiu Club at Malaytown. The Kambiu Club became a popular venue for bars, music entertainment and social dance nights. The Kambiu Stringband was the attraction to the residents due to their music as well as other performances in plays, drama and ethnic dancing exhibitions. Europeans and Government officers were regulars at the Club. In the 1960s', there was some disagreements in the Club management which resulted in the splitting up of members and the establishment of the New Guinea Ambonese Club with the founding President was Andy Seigers and the Secretary was Peter Sahluteru. Rabaul was a cosmopolitan town and there were quiet distinct living or accommodation areas of different communities such as Malaytown, Chinatown, Native compound for indigenous labourers, Europeans and Government Officials and services like schools and hospitals were also separated although started combining mainly the mixed race community amongst inter-marriages od european to chinese to malay and indigenous people. Other experiences and changes in the life of Rabaul town was evident towards the the 1970s to PNG's self government and independence and also saw migrations of some of the residents to Australia. (Steven Gagau, January 2020) . Language as given:

磁带2号：拉包尔镇社区综合见闻（A面与B面）：来自安汶社区（Ambonese community）的安迪·塞格斯（Andy Seigers）继续讲述拉包尔镇的居民与族群构成：当地居民主要为混血族群、华人、密克罗尼西亚人（Micronesians）、波利尼西亚人（Polynesians）与欧洲人，他们常在马来镇的坎比乌俱乐部（Kambiu Club）开展社交互动。坎比乌俱乐部是集酒吧、音乐娱乐与社交舞会为一体的热门场所，其旗下的坎比乌弦乐乐团（Kambiu Stringband）凭借精湛的演奏，以及话剧、戏剧与民族舞蹈展演等各类节目，成为当地居民的核心吸引力。欧洲人与政府官员亦是该俱乐部的常客。20世纪60年代，俱乐部管理层出现分歧，导致会员分裂，随后新几内亚安汶俱乐部（New Guinea Ambonese Club）正式成立，安迪·塞格斯出任首任主席，彼得·萨卢特鲁（Peter Sahluteru）担任秘书。拉包尔曾是一座国际化都市，不同社群拥有界限清晰的专属居住/住宿区域，包括马来镇、唐人街（Chinatown）、原住民劳工专属营地，以及欧洲人与政府官员专属区域；当地学校、医院等公共服务设施也曾各自分隔，但随着欧洲人与华人、马来人及原住民之间的跨族通婚，混血社群逐渐实现融合。到20世纪70年代，随着巴布亚新几内亚（PNG, Papua New Guinea）走向自治与独立，拉包尔镇的社会生活出现了诸多新变化与变迁，部分居民也移民至澳大利亚。该口述资料由史蒂文·加高（Steven Gagau）于2020年1月采集整理。本次记录所用语言为：