page_title: Kainantu
section_title: Re-invigoration of Golf Club
hierarchical_section_title: Kainantu / Economy / Kainantu Golf Club / Re-invigoration of Golf Club
caption_attribution_description: English: Kainantu Lodge / hotel. Christmas trees planted by Queen Elizabeth
context_page_description: Kainantu is a town in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. It had some historical significance as an airstrip town during WWII. It functions primarily as a market town for local produce growers and cash croppers. It is located on the "Highlands Highway" approximately 170 kilometres by road from Lae and 90 kilometres by road from Goroka. It is 11 kilometres approx from a nearby missionary station Ukarumpa and is nearby the Aiyura valley. Kainantu has basic facilities such as a school, hospital, police station, district court, and service stations.
context_section_description: In the early 1990s, a small group of expatriates from nearby business began to make improvements to the club including planting new trees and building a new clubhouse. The new trees did not last long and were uprooted by “rascals”and over the years existing trees were “ringed” and then cut down at night for firewood.
  As a result of the Papua New Guinea policy of nationalizing workforce at the Yonki Dam, the Agricultural Station and the PNG Coffee Research Institute in the late 1990s the number of expatriates in the area decreased. Subsequently, tees, fairways and greens were not maintained and small gardens were dug into the sides of the course, dirt roads over the course constructed and at one time a house was built on one of the holes.
caption: Kainantu Lodge / hotel. Christmas trees planted by Queen Elizabeth
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