Town Ground, Honiara Town Ground, Honiara Town Ground is a suburb in Honiara, Solomon Islands, located in the main center on the Tandai Highway. Town Ground is in the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi and Rove-Lengakiki. Town Ground is East of Rove and West of Point Cruz. In 2003 Iron Bottom Sound Hotel was the initial base for the first elements of the intervention force sent to restore order following the civil tensions. Prior to the 2006 ethnic riots, a political crisis was unfolding. The Prime Minister Snyder Rini, remained under police guard and the Opposition Leader Francis Billy Hilly and his
Honiara 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 two-thirds of the allocations granted for the country's economic development in the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in substantial infrastructure development. 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 creolisation.