THE BLUE TRAIN
A procession of eight bright blue motor-vans, containing agricultural exhibits, left Rome recently on a three months' tour of Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. The vans, which have moveable sides, are fitted up to illustrate intensive modern systems of agriculture, told in pictures and models suited to the intelligence of peasants in remote parts of the country. . Books will also be distributed at the stopping places and films bearing on rural life are to be shown. Oue van is emblazoned with mottoes frpm Signor Mussolini’s speeches: “We must ruralise Italy, even if it costs millions of money and half a century of time”: and “If my will and tenacity are supported by your collaboration a prosperous future opens before Italian agriculture.” During the three days that the “blue train” was on view in Piazza Venezia, it was visited by more than one hundred thousand people.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 30
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148THE BLUE TRAIN Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 30
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