BUSINESS TOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 775, 23 September 1929, Page 8

BUSINESS TOUR

ITINERARY OF COMMERCE TRAIN SOUTHERN PASSENGERS For nine days from November 15, over 60 business men will travel in the province on the annual commerce train tour organ- | ised by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The 1929 tour will be confined to the Hauraki Plains, portion of the Waikato and an extensive itinerary North Auckland. Prominent businessmen of Auckland, including Mr. H. T. Merritt* chairman of the Chamber of commerce. Mr. J. A. C. Allum. the Hon. E. W. Alison, Mr. G. Finn, Mr. M. J Bennett and Mr. A. (i. Lunn, are in! I eluded in the party, but there will be many representatives of Southern j business organisations. Wellington in particular, will have touring business men forming a large percentage of the party*, and Mr. C. P. Agar, of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce, will be a passenger.

Mr. L. A. Paish, the British Trade Commissioner, who has his headquarters at Wellington, will travel on the train, too.

Leaving the City at 9 o’clock on Friday’ night. November 15, the train will go to Pokeno. where the night will be spent. Private cars will take the business men across Hauraki Plains the next morning to Paeroa and, in the afternoon, an inspection will be made of the Waitoa butter dried milk and condensed milk fac! tory of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company. Te Aroha will be reached late in the afternoon and there will be short motor runs through the district.

At 4 p.m. on Sunday’, November 17, the train will leave for Kirikopuni,’ and, the following morning, the Public Works train will take the party to Tangowahine. Visits will be made to Dargaville, Ruawai and Dargavffle Beach. A change at Donnelly’s Crossing the next day w*ill enable car journeys to be made to Waipoua Kauri Forest, Waimauku, Oponoui, Rawene and Kaikohe, where the train will be met.

The Bay of Islands show’ at Waimate North and the railway construction camp at Okaihau will be visited on Wednesday’, November 20.

From Okaihau on the following morning, cars will take the party to Kaitaia, via Rangialiua, Mangamuku Gorge and Victoria Valley’. Awanui and Waipapakauri will also be touched and. on Friday, the tour will take in Mangonui, Whangaroa, Kerikeri and Kawakawa. Cooper’s Beach, near Mangonui, will ho visted and, in a journey round Whangaroa Harbour, a meal will be cooked for the business men in Maori fashion. Cars will be available for a trip to Waiomio Caves. V iiangarei w’ill be reached on the Saturday’, and there wrill be a cruise dow’n the harbour, besides a visit to Portland cement works. At Waipu a short history’ of the Waipu settlement will be given. The tour will end with the arrival of the train at Auckland on Sunday, November 24, at 9 a.m. During the journey the business men will be welcomed atr dinners and social assemblies at Paeroa, Te Aroha, Ruawai. Dargaville, Waimamakii, Kaikohe, Okaihau. Kaitaia, Kawakawa and V^iangarei.