Rice is Being Grown in the Solomons

Behind Tenaru, on Guadalcanal, the British, Solomon Islands Administration is engaged in rice-growing, on a large scale. This experiment is being watched with interest. War and Post war conditions have cut off the South Pacific Territories-which normally consume a great deal of r ice from Malaya and Indonesia, once the source of large supplies. There is no reason why rice should not be grown as successfully in the South-western Pacific as it is now in Fiji and Australia. Photo taken in April, 1946, by J. M. Clift.