It's Not Now A Shanty Town

Honiara BSIP, was once a shanty town of tin and quonset huts. But not any more. Buildings like these are taking the place of the eyesores At top is Honiara’s new post office, completed last year—and on roof level at the far left can be see” the latest addition to It, a public position of the clock was a matter for good humoured discussion, as PIM reported in April page 125 Below is the new Treasury Building, just nearing completion. It house staffs of Treasury, Taxation. Audit and Customs, and be a welcome SinJe from the dilapidated ex-US Army buildings these departments have been Sing' h building was designed by Government Architect Harry Barnes It has a prominent position in Mendana Ave.. next to the Copra Board aSd the ocaT wags insist that it was decided to place it there to save he planters having to walk too far to pay export duty-which in 1958 amounted to £220,000.