Busy Banana Tourist
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A BANANA tourist, with a dif ference, has recently been clambering over the mountains of W. Samoa, Fiji and P-NG.
He is Mr. N. W. Simmonds, a “sytogenetecist” attached to the re search department of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in the West Indies. For the past 10 years he and others have been
searching for a strain of banana sistant to Panama and leaf diseases which have crippled West Indian banana export tr The same leaf-spot disease is sent in Samoa in certain varie Mr. Simmonds will visit vai banana producing countries v, ward to north-east India during present expedition. He has covered in P-NG some varieties known elsewhere and seeds 1 been sent back to the West Ind