GOODWILL TOUR ENDED
N.Z. FARMERS’ PARTY
S. AUSTRALIAN CONDITIONS
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day
Impressed by the unbounded hospitality of the people they had met, a party of 25 New Zealand farmers returned by the Wanganella to-day after a tour of South Australia. Twenty are from the South Island. “A fair part of South Australia has a 30in annual rainfall and claims to be able to keep four' sheep to the acre just with top-dressing, but the bulk of the land has less than lOin of rain, with only one sheep to 10 or 15 acres." said the leader of jhe party, Mr. "R. D. Robinson, Ashburton.
“The sheepfarmers are finding things reasonably good, but the wheatgrowers are getting only Is 8d a bushel and they seemed to be in a bad way. Price fixation is being arranged," said Mr. Robinson.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 6
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