BSPs Big Building Programme
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From Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, March 5.
BRITISH Solomon Islands Protectorate Government will let contracts amounting to at least £150,000 as part of a large - construction programme at Honiara, Guadalcanal, the capital of the Protectorate.
Buildings to be constructed include a Government Hospital, a new office for the Secretariat, a hotel, and new premises for the Government Trade Scheme.
The new buildings will replace tempor ary buildings dating from the immediate post-war period when the capital was established at Honiara. It was at first intended that the Protectorate Public Works Department should erect all build ings for the new capital, but shipping and supply difficulties, shortage of trained staff, and the time required to cope with recurrent maintenance of temporary housing, bridges, roads, electricity and water supplies, and transport, have de layed the building programme so much that the present temporary Government offices, hospital, etc., all require im mediate replacement.