GROCERS’ TOUR
22 Leave For Overseas
(N.Z Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 2.
A study of overseas trading methods, especially trends in the running of supermarket* will be made by 22 grocers who left Auckland today by air for a world research tour
The grocers, from many parts of New Zealand, including Dunedin, Christchurch. Greytown, Hamilton. and Auckland, will visit the United States. Britain. Germany. Austria. Italy. Switzerland. France. Spain. Beirut. India. Hong Kong, and Australia.
Six of the tourists have had their expenses paid out of a special research fund. They were chosen by ballot. The tour is the sixth of its kind since 1953, and is in addition to the annual Australian research tours which began in 1958.
The group is expected to return to New Zealand on August 16.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30147, 3 June 1963, Page 10
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