Tallest Sugarcane?
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Mr. J. Spillius, of Canada, has left Honiara in the Melanesian Missions’
MV Southern Cross for Auckland after 15 months on the remote Polynesian island of Tikopia, in Eastern Solomons.
Gracie Fields, who sings about the “biggest aspidestra in the world”, should see this clump of sugar-cane which grows outside Lomu’s Kava shop, in Nukualofa, Tonga. It is about 20 feet tall and towers up above the surrounding build ings. No one in Tonga has seen taller cane. —Photo by Hettig.