Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1966Vol. 37, No. 1

Population Up

p. 33 · Read in the full issue

Page 3333

In Honiara

Provisional figures released from a census on population taken in Honiara British Solo mons, in October, revealed that the population of the capital has nearly doubled since 1959.

The census showed that there are 6,431 people residing in Honiara —an increase of almost 3,000 in six years.

The population total is made up of 4,587 males and 1,844 females.

The census showed that 53 houses out of the total of 1,323 have more than one family living in them at present.

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