To See New Zealand

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 681, 5 June 1929, Page 9

To See New Zealand

EMPIRE FARMERS FIX TOUR Lord Bledisloe As Leader (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 11 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. I ORD BLEDISLOE, a leading authority on the meat trade, . j s joining the British National Union of Farmers’ tour of New Zealand in 1930, and has accepted the executive’s invitation to assume the leadership. rhe party consists of 50 British, 35 Canadian and 15 South African farmers, and will arrive at Auckland on February 20.

Created a baron in 1918, Lord Bledisloe of Sydney has been chairman of the Imperial Grassland Association since 1928, and was chairman of the committee of the Lawes Agricultural Trust (Rothamsted) and of the Agricultural Research Committee of Bristol University. Also, he was Parliamentary Secretary of Agriculture. Now 62 years of age. Lord Bledisloe has had a distinguished career. Educated at Sherborne, Eton, and Oxford, he went on to the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, where he was gold medallist and later chairman of the Governors.

He was elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1910, and in 1916 and 1917 was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food. Lord Bledisloe’s other offices have included president of the Central Chamber of Agriculture, 1915; president of the British Dairy Farmers’ Association, 1919-1921; president, Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, 1920-21; president. Central Landowners’ Association, 192122; president, Agricultural section of British Association, 1922; chairman, Farmers’ Club, 1923-24; chairman of the Royal Commission on the sugar supply and director of sugar distribution, 1917 to 1919.