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History of Honiara

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;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0in;line-height:14.4pt;background:white">Honiara officially became the capital of the British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands in 1952. The infrastructure had been fairly well developed by the US during the war which dictated the decision of the British Government to shift the capital to Honiara. Government buildings opened in Honiara from early January in 1952. Sir Robert Stanley was based at Honiara during his time as High Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands, the Condominium of New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony. MacuSalato arrived in Honiara in early August 1954 and was based in the town, conducting surveys all across the islands and investigating leprosy. He departed and returned to Fiji in late March 1955.

The town grew significantly after Honiara became the capital city, receiving 2/3 of the investment into economic development in the country in the 1960s and 1970s which developed the infrastructure of Honiara. However, population growth was very slow and only about 5% of Solomon Islanders were living in the city. However, the Bellonese population significantly increased; they established permanent and semi-permanent houses in the Honiara vicinity, typically along the banks of the White River. The town was affected by creolization. In the 1960s, Pijin became the principal language of the city, and the mother tongue of a generation of young urban

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