WORLD FARMING TALKS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24866, 4 May 1946, Page 7

WORLD FARMING TALKS

DELEGATES FROM N.Z. ARRANGEMENTS FOR TOUR (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 2„ Five members of the New Zealand delegation to the international conference of agricultural producers, Messrs W. W. Mulholland, B. V. Cooksley, K. J. Holyoake, M.P., A. B. Congdon, and W. E. Hale, are expected to arrive in Liverpool on May 7. They will be met there by Mr A. H, Ward, Director of Herd Improvement, and members of the National Farmers’ Union, and in Londofi by Mr S. A. Chisholm, London manager of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. The other delegate, Mr G. H. Grigg, is expected to arrive by air early next week. Before the conference begins on May 21, the delegates will be conducted on a tour designed to show them the pattern of British agriculture. They will visit the Midlands and Wash districts to see a typical breed of livestock and farm mechanisation. Altogether they will visit nearly 20 farms, starting on May 13. and finishing on May 17. At Birmingham the delegates will attend a reception by the Lord Mayor. On May 18 they will visit the King’s farm at Windsor, where His Majesty will receive them. There they will see a herd of Scottish Shorthorns that have been kept continuously at Windsor since 1853. The conference will include addresses by Mr Tom Williams, Minister of Agriculture, and Lord Border, who will speak on the relationship between nutrition and agriculture. Professor A. W. Ashby will speak on co-opera-tion in agriculture, and Sir John Orr on the work of the Food and Agriculture Organisation. The delegates will also visit Arundel Castle, the home of the Duke of Norfolk, the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham, and the Rothamsted Experimental Station. There .wdl be horticulture tours and visits to breeders of pedigree stock. t _ __