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Trevor Harch

Aug 30, 2026

7:55
So then did you go out on your own as soon as you completed your apprenticeship? No,
7:58
then when I was a great 20-year-old, I started when I was 16, the company I was with had won a big contract in New Guinea, but that's when Indonesia was going to take over New Guinea and they were building army camps and they had a big contract in Ley and they sent a few apprentices up to Ley in 1966.
8:21
And I went for one year, no fly in, fly out, stay a year, totally different, right, toughened you up.
8:28
And then I went and then I liked it so I stayed longer and I went to do a war for them in Rabaul and then ended up in a copper mine at Bougainville and actually stayed there five years in New Guinea.
8:41
Wow.
8:41
Right.
8:41
Okay.

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21:12
being impacted by the taxes and importing? No, it

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