John Plant Hoka

Biography

Hoka worked as a schoolteacher on Guadalcanal until leaving his job to promote Maasina Ruru, an anti-British movement. When the Legislative Council was expanded from one to fourteen directly-elected seats in 1967, Hoka ran in the general elections that year in the Central Solomons constituency. He was elected to the Council with 39% of the vote in the constituency.

The Central Solomons constituency was abolished prior to the 1970 elections to the new Governing Council. Hoka ran in the new Ngella/Savo/Russells constituency, but finished fourth in a field of five candidates. He did not run for national office again.