White River, Honiara with marketers targeted by the Honiara City Council for operating without a license. A study reports that 67% of youths at White River state they receive no regular income sources. The song "Bereft of a mother" (composer Pu Timoio of Tavi lineage of Kafika) was recorded in 1928 and in 1973 at White River. The composer mourns the death of his mother in a moving reference to the care shee took. Land has been acquired for the construction of a 33kV White River Substation. White River, Honiara White River is a suburb on the fringe of Honiara, Solomon Islands and
Honiara the South Seas Evangelical Church, the United Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and other Christian churches. The name Honiara derives from "nagho ni ara" which roughly translates as "place of the east wind" or "facing the southeast wind" in one of the Guadalcanal languages. The town has not been extensively documented and little detailed material exists on it. The Battle of Henderson Field (1942), the last of the three major land offensives conducted by the Japanese during the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II took place in what is now the airport area about to the east of the city