TO TOUR AUSTRALIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 6

TO TOUR AUSTRALIA

N.Z. FARMERS LEAVING ON JUNE 16 SPLENDID ITINERARY Arrangements are at present being made for a party of New Zealand farmers to tour New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. The Australian authorities stipulate that not less than 50 and not more than 80 persons should make the tour. THE overall cost of the trip will be - 1 £lls, which will include train and steamer return fares and accommodation. Thirty-two farmers from Canterbury have already stated that they will make the tour, and others, up to 80, will go from various parts of the Dominion. The required number has almost been reached. The party will sail from Auckland by the Aorangi on June 16 and will return by the Maheno, via Bluff. Some time ago representations were made that the New Zealand Railwav Department should promote a farmers' excursion to Australia on the lines of the Australian tours of New Zealand The executive of the Australian Rail way Developmental Tours, together with the New Zealand agents at Melbourne and Sydney, have now drawn UP the itinerary which has been submitted to the New Zealand commercial branch of the railways. will be reached on June 20 and the tour will start on the following day. Present arrangements are for the party to sail from Melbourne for Bluff on July 17 on the return journey. During the tour the party will travel 3,500 miles on de luxe trains and 700 miles through the countrv districts in motor-cars. Many interesting places will be visited in addition to some of the finest agricultural and pastoral land in Australia. SYDNEY'S SIGHTS After a day seeing the sights of Sydney the party will visit the Jenolan Caves and the surrounding districts. • he following day they will journey to Queensland, travelling via Warwick and the Darling Downs, Toowoomba and the Gratton Agricultural College to Brisbane. .During the tour of Queensland and fsew feouth Wales the New Zealanders will travel in the famous “Reso” train, they will be taken to the sugar-cane districts at Bundaberg, on a tour of Brisbane City, to the Lismore and Grafton districts, and back to Sydney for the sheep show and a visit to the Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Canberra, the Federal capital, will be the next attraction, and then the citrus fruit-growing districts and ricefields on the Murrumbidgee, where immense irrigation schemes have been brought into operation. Wagga Wagga. Albury and the wheat and grazing areas in the Corowa district will be visited on the way to Melbourne. Mount Buffalo National Dark will also be seen. After a stay in Melbourne there will be tours to other famous parts of Victoria, including a big coalfield and several famous sheep and dairy herds.