Honiara's First Cinema

HONIARA’S first cinema, the Point Cruz, was opened by the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Sir Robert Stanley) on May 6.

Owned by Mr. K. H. Dalrymple Hay, the new theatre is probably the best-appointed in the Western Pacific.

First-night proceeds were given

to the fund being raised to build a Honiara memorial to those killed in the Solomons during the Pacific War. f Fiji’s largest shipment of trocas and pearlshell products to date was loaded by the liner Orion in May.

The consignment, totalling 141 tons, included 5,500,000 buttons and button blanks manufactured at Levuka.