He's Typical Of Lae
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Brett Hilder Profile
IZ’EN NIZETTE, of Lae, New Guinea, is typical of that young and progressive township.
He was born at Ipswich, Queens land in 1928, and received his education there. He became a radiographer and practised at Brisbane, Lismore, Murwillumbah and Rockhampton. At the age of 20 he married Diana Clarke: they now have four children, as their daughter Michelle died in 1967, at the age of 13. In 1952 they went to Fiji where Ken served in the Medical Service for four years, followed by two years in New Guinea.
Ken then took up selling life assurance for the T & G Society, establishing himself at Lae in 1959. He became secretary of the local Apex Club, then president, then District Governor and finally, in 1966-67, Zone President for New Guinea, Papua and North Queensland.
Ken is now a councillor of the
Lae Chamber of Commerce belongs to the Golf Club and th« Yacht Club, and is a member o; the Church of England Diocesai Standing Committee.
He owns his own Cessna 170 and took only 4i weeks to gaii his private pilot’s licence. H( recently acquired a boat to sail about the size of its namesake the sailfish. Another recent hobb] is the collection and cultivatioi of orchids, mainly New Guinei species.
Ken’s wife Diana takes part time business jobs, is a bowler is on the committee of the La< Women’s Club, and president o; the Lae Musical and Dramath Society. Her hobbies are reading acting, trying to write and learn ing to paint.
Their daughter is Deborah, anc they have three sons, Peter, Marl and Phillip. One way or another the name of Nizette is going t(
be kept on the map.