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330:. He died on 22 October 2010, reportedly of asthma. He had been a heavy smoker. He was survived by Hilan and their four children who continue to operate family businesses, including coffee production and marketing, and three other wives and 13 children. His eldest son, a pilot, would die not long after his death.
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of Papua New Guinea. There is some confusion about his year of birth, with one source suggesting that it was 1946, but it seems more likely that it was 1944. He was said to have been 66 when he died in 2010. Pora was the son of an
Australian patrol officer, Dal (Dalkeith) Chambers, who was
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was murdered in Mount Hagen. A convoy of people from Enga headed to Mount Hagen in order to exact revenge but were met by Pora and the victim’s father and persuaded not to take the violent action they had planned.
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in the 1987 general election, for the Hagen Open seat and was appointed as a member of the
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