EMPIRE FARMERS’ VISIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 742, 15 August 1929, Page 10

EMPIRE FARMERS’ VISIT

ARRIVAL IN FEBRUARY ITINERARY ARRANGED (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Today. A party of British, Canadian and South African farmers will visit New Zealand in February. ARRANGEMENTS are well in hand for the tour, which is being organised by the British National Union, in co-operation with the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the South African National L'nion. The party will be limited to SO members, of whom 50 will be British farmers, 15 Canadian and 15 South African, under the leadership of Lord Bledisloe, chairman of the Imperial Grassland Association, and a wellknown British agriculturist. The British party Mill leave by the Remuera on January 17 and should arrive at Auckland on February 20. The return journey will commence on March 25, from Auckland, the party returning via Australian ports. A week or 10 days will be spent in New South Wales and Victoria. The Canadians are to sail from Vancouver by the Aorangi on February 5 and are due at Auckland on February 23. They Mill leave for San Francisco from Wellington by the Makura on March 25. The South African farmers are to leave Capetown by the Runic on January 3 and before arriving in New Zealand M’ill spend a period in Victoria and New South Wales. They are due in New Zealand on February 14 and will return home Mith the British farmers on March 25. The tour will cost the British and South African farmers £250 each and £l6O for the Canadian farmers. During the New Zealand stay the party Mill folloM- an itinerary prepared by the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in conjunction with the Railway Department. An agricultural confer-' once Mull be held on one day during the visit.