FARMERS' WORLD TOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 85, 11 April 1931, Page 12

FARMERS' WORLD TOUR.

PARTY LEAVES AUCKLAND. BUSINESS AND PLEASURE. Eight members of the party of New Zealand farmers who are on a world tour left Auckland yesterday afternoon by the Maunganui for Sydney, where they join the Otranto on April 22 for England. There will be 30 farmers in the party. Some are already in Australia, and about ten will ieave from Wellington by the Ulimaroa next Friday. The tour will include Great Britain, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and France, the summer being spent oil' the Continent. At the beginning of August the farmers will return t6 England, and the majority of them will spend some time there before coming back to New Zealand. Compared with the party of farmers that made a similar tour last year, it is only a-third. the size, but considering the difficult times it is quite as large as the organisers expected. ' Numerous farmers have stated they will join next year's party, as conditions will then, be more favourable for the man on the land. Many of the farmers have taken their wives with them. Most of the men are interested in dairying, and are anxious to learn what the dairymen in the Old Country, but mOre particularly Denmark, are doing. They are also inters estcd in the marketing methods and the handling of New Zealand produce generally on the Continent. In the nbftli of England the party will inspect some famous works that turn out farm machinery. The tour will last about six months, and the farmers will be back in New Ze&l&nd next spring.