YOUNG FARMERS’ TOUR.
SOUTH ISLAND AREAS. A party of 32 members of local Young Farmers’ Clubs will leave Palmerston North by .train to-morrow afternoon on the first stage of a 12-day tour of part of the South Island, from Rangiora to Mount Cook, under the leadership of Mr W. Howell, of the Poliangina Young Farmers’ Club. The party will visit Mr Allan Grant’s Clydesdale stud farm, the irrigation lands, grass and clover areas and certified potato farms. They will also visit the Ball Hut, the Hockstetter. ice fall, the Tasman Glacier, Mount Sebastopol and Lake Tekapo. They will be the guests at a dance organised by the Pleasant Point Young Farmers’ Club and later the guests of the. Geraldine club. At Christchurch, 'they will visit the Wheat Research Institute, the Agronomy Division Station, and Lincoln College. They will also hear the Young Farmers’ Dominion debating championships, in which, the Apiti team who this year won the North Island championship, will be competing. The members will also be taken on an observation tour of the different bays around Christchurch and Summit ltoad.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 6
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181YOUNG FARMERS’ TOUR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 6
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