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 1960s and 1970s some two-thirds of the investment into economic development in the country went into developing the infrastructure of Honiara, despite the fact that at the time only some five percent of Solomon Islanders lived there. Like Tulagi, the town did not grow substantially as a result of industrialisation. As Trevor Sofield says, "The shops and businesses in these centers served the needs of the government officials and expatriate businessmen, planters, and traders. Honiara, like many other ex-colonial cities, still reflects the political, economic and cultural structure of its former metropolitan mentor much more than it does the