Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1949Vol. XIX, No. 11

Solomon Islanders Now Have

p. 31 · Read in the full issue

Page 3131

Own Club

From Our Own Correspondent

Honiara, May 15.

AN innovation for the Solomons is a club for Solomon Islanders, officially opened in Honiara on May 14.

Housed temporarily in an ex-Army quonset hut, the club will serve as a rec reational centre for male native residents of Honiara. Annual subscription, 12/-.

It has ping pong facilities and members are hoping to be allowed space for their own tennis court nearby.

The Interisland Steam Navigation Co. of Honolulu proposed to send the SS “Hualalai” on a cruise of the Pacific Islands in June, with 200 passengers. She was to spend five days in Tahiti. The Governor of French/ Oceania has ex pressed his earnest desire to promote Tourism.

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