Further particulars regarding tiie proposed . tour of the South Island Viv a party 'of liawko’s Bay and Poverty Bay farmers, as mentioned in the* Times recently, have been forwarded; to branches of the Farmers’ Union by the Railway .Department. These include . a provisional itinerary, which'is submitted for approval -of members. andhJtr.no is suggested as the most suitable, month for the. tour. On the' first day of that mouth (the. itinerary indicates) the tourists should gather 'at Wellington, : to take steampr. for Lyttelton and rail to Christchurch, widen city would he' reached, oh ' Sunday morning, dune 2. A fter'a free tlav hi the Cathedral City, there .would ■lie . a. trip to Otira '-on the Monday, followed bv .another., trip' to Lincoln College. On' June. 5, according to th. 6 tentative' itinenll-y. the party would leave* for Timaru, and thence .proceed by easy..rari.journeys to Oanumip Dunedin, and, the isontherri lakes. centres.* Motor trips will■' bo included in' the itinerary, and tlie rekniVees of tlie -Otago and ■ Southland' districts will he unfolded ,to the northerners,'who wiil spend some sixteen davs oil the tour from Wellington” arid 'back to' Wellington,.' Eb■'tertaimnetit .is’a'alKo- • nrovided • yvith r TJtrio}i!s„ brandjes in, ttje Sontli/ Island, >.p.nd the cost'of tlie whole tour will not he in excess of £25 per'person.^.according' 'to /the' estmiat'es pVo■yided 'bv the-,department. . The tour wilt embrace. I'QS7. miles of .railway travel. J-JO miles.of sen travel/and, '*so/"miles ,of : lake 1 'tours.:’’" The' ’number, of passengers* will'be limited-to 2f?fe
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 3
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