Honiara Botanic Gardens Sirikolo rehabilitated the collections in 1990. Honiara Botanic Gardens The Honiara Botanic Gardens are located in Rove, Honiara, Solomon Islands. They are about west of the main center off the Tandai Highway on Garden Drive (opposite the Iron Bottom Sound hotel). Garden Drive meanders around the prison complex and is just past the Solomon Islands Broadcasting buildings. The Rove Botanical Gardens is located immediately behind the Rove Prison. Once a showpiece of Whitmore's collection and Geoff Dennis gardening the gardens deteriorated in the 1980s. Following a publication by C.P Henderson and I.R Hancock in 1988, a New Zealand volunteer David
White River, Honiara from rural North West Guadalcanal, on the provincial side of White River, would bring fresh vegetables, root crops, fish, and raw meat such as wild pig. Women from Malaita, based in the capital Honiara, would bring non-perishable food items from the stores. On October 11, 2005, notices were served and signed by the government official, instructing the Westside Women for Peace to remove all privately built stalls in the market within five days, to cease market activities on Sundays and to cooperate with government officials on any developments in the area. The White River Markets still operate unlicensed and informal,