Malaita Province is one of the largest provinces of the Solomon Islands. It is named for its largest island, Malaita. Other islands include South Malaita Island, Sikaiana Island and Ontong Java Island (alternately Lord Howe Island). The provincial capital and largest urban center is Auki, located on Malaita. The estimated population of the province (as of 1997) is 142,000. The area of the province in 4,225km². The People The people of the main island of Malaita Province are a Melanesian race. The Outer Islands of Ontong Java and Sikaiana have a Polynesian Population. Due to little economic activity on the island a huge population of Malaitans are in the other Solomon Islands Provinces and the national capital of Honiara. Lord Howe Island showing Mts Lidgbird and Gower. ... Auki is the provincial capital of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. ...
So Malaita remains today, in the twentieth century, the stamping ground of the labor recruiters, who farm its coasts for laborers who engage and contract themselves to toil on the plantations of the neighboring and more civilized islands for a wage of thirty dollars a year.
He became the slave of old Fanfoa, head chief over a score of scattered bush-villages on the range-lips of Malaita, the smoke of which, on calm mornings, is about the only evidence the seafaring white men have of the teeming interior population.
They had to be, or else they would not make a practice of venturing along the Malaita coast and into all harbors, two on a schooner, when each schooner carried from fifteen to twenty fls as boat's crew, and often as high as sixty or seventy fl recruits.
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