U N I T E D   S T A T E S

                 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                      Washington, D.C.  20549


                             FORM 8-K

                          CURRENT REPORT


               Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
                   Securities Exchange Act of 1934


           Date of Report
  (Date of earliest event reported)           November 4, 1996


               B A N C O R P   H A W A I I,   I N C.
     --------------------------------------------------------
      (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


       Hawaii                   1-6887            99-0148992
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(State of incorporation)     (Commission        (IRS Employer
                             File Number)     Identification No.)


  130 Merchant Street, Honolulu, Hawaii               96813
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 (Address of principal executive offices)          (Zip Code)


      (Registrant's telephone number,
         including area code)             (808) 847-8888


Item 5.Other Events

      A copy of a press release is filed herewith in connection
with a change in Executive Management at Bank of Hawaii, a
subsidiary of Bancorp Hawaii, Inc.






                           SIGNATURES


      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.



Date   November 8, 1996              BANCORP HAWAII, INC.



                                     /s/ LAWRENCE M. JOHNSON     
                                          (Signature)

                                     Lawrence M. Johnson
                                     Chairman of the Board and
                                     Chief Executive Officer


               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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                     BANCORP HAWAII, INC.








                ATTACHMENT TO CURRENT REPORT ON
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                                  Commission File Number 1-6887


        TOM LEPPERT JOINS BANK OF HAWAII AS VICE CHAIRMAN

      HONOLULU -- (Nov. 4, 1996) --  Bank of Hawaii and Bancorp
Hawaii, Inc., Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Lawrence M. Johnson announced today that Thomas C. Leppert,
president - Residential and Hawaiian Commercial Operations and
director, Castle & Cooke, Inc., president and chief executive
officer of  Castle & Cooke Properties, Inc., and chief executive
officer of Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii, Inc., has joined Bank of
Hawaii as vice chairman.  He will be part of the bank's Managing
Committee, working closely with Johnson; President and Chief
Operating Officer Richard Dahl; and Vice Chairman and Chief
Lending Officer Alton Kuioka.   Leppert was also named executive
vice president of the bank's parent company, Bancorp Hawaii, Inc. 


      In addition, he will be responsible for the company's United
States Mainland operations, as well as the company's Treasury and
Information Management operations.  

      Leppert, 42, was elected a member of Bank of Hawaii's Board
of Directors in 1995 and will remain on the board.  Kuioka, Dahl
and Johnson are also board members.  

      Leppert joined Castle & Cooke Properties, a subsidiary of
Dole Food Company, Inc., in 1989. He also served as a corporate
vice president of the parent company. 

      Prior to joining Castle & Cooke, he was a national partner
with the Trammell Crow Company where he was responsible for the
company's residential operations in the south central region of
the U.S. Mainland and its strategic and administrative efforts.  
Prior to that, Leppert was a principal with McKinsey & Co., an
international general management consulting firm, where he
specialized in the financial services industry.  

      In 1984, he was appointed a White House Fellow and assigned
to the Department of Treasury and White House staff where he
focused on international trade, finance and banking issues.  

      Leppert is an active member of the community.  He is past
chairman and a current member of the executive committees and
boards of the Bishop Museum and Hawaii Business Roundtable.  He
is a member of the executive committee of the University of
Hawaii Foundation.  He is also a member of the boards of the
Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Hawaii Visitors and Convention
Bureau, Hawaii International Film Festival, the Honolulu
Symphony, Hawaii Employers Council and the Chamber of Commerce,
as well as a member of the Young Presidents' Organization and the
Urban Land Institute.

      He holds a B.A. degree in economics from Claremont Men's
College where he was graduated cum laude and an M.B.A. with
distinction from Harvard Business School.