Bank Will Open In Honiara
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Soon
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, June 26.
HONIARA will soon have a bank for the first time post-war. Since the change-over from war to peacetime economy, the Protectorate Treasury has undertaken necessary banking duties, in spite of insufficient staff to cope with normal Treasury requirements, as no bank was prepared to open a branch in the Protectorate.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is now opening a Honiara Branch. The bank manager, Mr. D. F. Wiley, and Mrs.
Wiley arrived in the Protectorate by Qantas aircraft from Sydney on June 25, and the bank will soon be in operation.
Before the war, a Commonwealth Sav ings Bank Branch operated at Tulagi, and it is expected that this service will also be revived.