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HONIARA VILLAGE-CITY OF SOLOMON ISLANDS HONIARA VILLAGE-CITY OF SOLOMON ISLANDS CLIVE MOORE PACIFIC SERIES Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2600, Australia Email: [email protected] Available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au ISBN (print): 9781760465063 ISBN (online): 9781760465070 WorldCat (print): 1306511147 WorldCat (online): 1306509845 DOI: 10.22459/H.2022 This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. The full licence terms are available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Cover design and layout by ANU Press Cover photograph: Honiara’s Solomon Islands National Museum Auditorium on the left and the Anthony Saru building, part of the NPF Plaza complex, on the right. Source: Daniel Evans Collection. This book is published under the aegis of the Pacific Editorial Board of ANU Press. This edition © 2022 ANU Press Contents List of figures vii List of maps ix List of plates xi List of tables xxi Acknowledgements xxiii Acronyms and abbreviations xxv A note on nomenclature xxix Introduction 3 1. Nahona`ara before 1942 27 2. Taem blong faet: Camp Guadal 63 3. The new capital 115 4. The other Honiara 157 5. Municipal authority and housing 195 6. Building infrastructure 247 7. Building society and the nation 297 8. Stepping-stones to national consciousness 355 9. Since independence 391 10. The village-city 431 Bibliography 487 Index 525 List of figures Figure 0.1 Honiara’s ‘worlds’ in order of their social, economic, and political importance, 1940s – 2010s. 24 Figure 9.1 The population of Greater Honiara: The Honiara City Council area and the adjacent peri-urban population of Guadalcanal Province, 1959–2019. 392 vii
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