PARLIAMENTARY TRIP.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17015, 11 December 1920, Page 8

PARLIAMENTARY TRIP.

NORTH ISLAND MEMBERS TO VISIT THE SOUTH. (srECXAL TO "the TRESS.") TIMA.RU, Dcoember 10. Commencing from Christckurch about March 2otfli next, a tour will bo made of the southern part of the SoutH Island by a number of North Island members'of Parliament. The tour is the idea of Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P. for Temuka, who has arranged a comprehensive itinera!®, Mr Burnett Us selected for the trip about twelve or fifteen M.P.'s from country district# of the North Island, mostly practical farmers and sheep men, while there will bo several members of the country districte of Canterbury and Otago also with tho party. The itinerary will com. mence wit'h visits'to some of the famous homesteads round about Christchurcn, and will be followed by a day at Lake Coleridge power works, and. Air JUNto, Government Electrical Engineer, has promised to be present. From i-aiw Coleridge tho party will proceed througu the -wheat part of Ashburton, via Mayfield and Goraldino, viewing what Mr Burnett considers the finest farming part of the Dominion, particularly arourid Goraldine, Winchester, and lemuka. At Temuka the party will ba conveyed in the Mount Cook Motor Company's touring cars tho Hermitage, where three days will Be spent . visiting the glaciers. from Mount l Cook the party will proceed by car t» Queenstown, making a break to 'iiwpoot tho proposed (hydro-electric site 8' Wanalca. Two diiys .will bo spent .in the Walcatipu district, and from tbcro the journey will be made to Invercargill,' the party proceeding north «K a ' n on the main railway. A break will ba made at- Temuka on April 14tl», when the party -will visit tne A\ indhester Autumn Show. _ . The principal idc.i behind tho tn;V lr to show the North Island members how, through the leasing condition# of tlio past, one of the chief assets of tlio country, the high pastoral land, is be. ing slowly but surely ruined, owing t<> tho want of sympathetic legislation. It is also hoped to show how wl;t!at-gro\r* inp; is being encroached upon by the. dairying industry, a great extent of what •has hitherto been picked wheat country having lieen given over almost entirely to the dairying industry.