FARMERS' TOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 192, 16 August 1939, Page 10

FARMERS' TOUR.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN VISIT.

NEW ZEALANDERS COME HOME

Impressed by the unbounded hospitality of the people they had met. a party of 25 New Zealand farmers returned in the Wanganella to-dav after a tour of South Australia. Twenty ar» from the South I sand.

Away since July 6, the "party inspected wheat growing and sheep areas, iron ore and lead smelting works, Merino studs fruitgrowing and irrigation activities, and a large motor works.

A fair part of South Australia has a 3°m annual rainfall, and claims to be . f to keep four sheep to an acre, just with top-dressing, but the bulk of the land has less than ten inches of rain with only one sheep to 10 or 15 acres," said the leader of the party, Mr. R. D Robinson, of Ashburton. "The sheep I™" , a . r ® finding things reaaonably good, but the wheat growers are getting in I I a a 884 they seem to be * , w . ay - At the present time an effort is being made to fix a price that will satisfy tlieir needs." Mr. Robinson added that farming conditions in South Australia were so different from those in New Zealand tbat the h'elnfof ,T ld H ' liff,eult exchange helpful advice with the farmers there The party felt, however, that it had been a most interesting and instructive tour, .pea nig of the hospitality experienced he mentioned that the party had been welcomed to Adelaide by the Lord Mayor and later entertained at dinner by the Premier of the State.