John Plant Hoka
John Plant Hoka | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
| In office 1967–1970 | |
| Constituency | Central Solomons |
John Plant Hoka was a Solomon Islands politician.
Biography[]
Hoka worked as a schoolteacher on Guadalcanal until leaving his job to promote Maasina Ruru, an anti-British movement.[1]
He was a candidate in the indirectly-elected Central Solomons seat in the 1965 election, losing to Lilly Ogatina. When the Legislative Council was expanded from one to fourteen directly-elected seats in 1967, Hoka contested the Central Solomons constituency in the elections that year.[2] He was elected to the Council with 39% of the vote.
The Central Solomons constituency was abolished prior to the 1970 elections to the new Governing Council. Hoka ran in the new , but finished fourth in a field of five candidates.[2] He did not run for national office again.
References[]
- ^ G. W. Trompf (1994) Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions, Cambridge University Press, p211
- ^ Jump up to: a b Solomon Islands Election Passport
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